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Old 03-25-2007, 11:22 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by chrisg967 View Post
Maybe they should rename the report to "Dying Planet Report".... unless we stop using so much natural resources, lower our birth rate, decrease per person consumption of consumer goods and services, and increase efficiency those goods and services are produced.
I'm an optimist.

So believe me when I say the future does not look bright for our planet...at least not for the ecological form it had been in before human civilization had arisen.

And I doubt that many species will survive our technological adolescence.

All those branches of the tree of life simply cut off in just a few generations of Man.


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