' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'
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https://phys.org/news/2010-06-humans-extinct-years-eminent-scientist.h
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/so-many-animals-will-go-extinct
-in-the-next-50-years-that-it-will-take-earth-at-least-3-million-years-to-recover/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-
extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn
https://medium.com/@Cliffhanger1983/the-collapse-of-civilization-manifesto-2039c6a5327
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/21/mit-professor-predi
cts-earths-next-mass-extinction-to-begin-by-2100/#375f64a96e57
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Alas, too true. People are gleefully promoting the destruction of the very systems that keep us alive. They think that "saving the whales" is anti-human when in reality it's all about our survival. When I worked (for an environmental regulatory agency) one of my colleagues - who was very pro-environment - went off to dive in exotic reefs and birdwatch in rainforests just to see everything before it was all gone. He bugged out to Costa Rica long before retirement age just to soak it all in. I used to think he was way too pessimistic, but now I think he was just ahead of the curve.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Don't worry man. Overpopulation is the problem. There's a plan for that.
You and I might not be part of it though, at least not on the good end of it anyhow. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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So REAVERBOT ... are you surprised that I agree with you post? Because I do, yanno. But youve been so focused on treating some people - me included- as "enemy" that you never noticed that I might be on your side. If you had stopped attacking long enugh to listen, you might have seen an ally instead of an enemy
. Instead, you spent an inordinate amount of time arguing with a fiction.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Politicians will not do what's necessary.
The Coming Collapse
It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/05/21/coming-collapse?gclid=Cj
wKCAiAwJTjBRBhEiwA56V7q85UTlyXlUQljt3vAOLj3hHqimPy5XTqxXRepeha5hI-JBBpT6ZmRxoCBJwQAvD_BwE
Political inaction is the "why."
Ecological collapse is the "how." We are rendering the planet unlivable, and the wheels are already in motion.
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Bill Gates tweeted an infographic to his 46 million followers showing that the world has been getting better and better. “This is one of my favourite infographics,” he wrote. “A lot of people underestimate just how much life has improved over the past two centuries.”
https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1086662632587907072
Of the six graphs – developed by Max Roser of Our World in Data – the first has attracted the most attention by far. It shows that the proportion of people living in poverty has declined from 94% in 1820 to only 10% today. The claim is simple and compelling.
It’s a powerful narrative. And it’s completely wrong.
See also: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18215534/bill-gates-globa
l-poverty-chart
From the article:
What Roser’s numbers actually reveal is that the world went from a situation where most of humanity had no need of money at all to one where today most of humanity struggles to survive on extremely small amounts of money.
You moved a subsistence farmer to a slum. Congratulations!
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REAVERBOT, let me toss a little philosophy into the conversation.
The destruction of the ecosphere can be described by answering "what" and "how", but the reasons for humans promoting - or at least allowing- the destruction of the only home we will ever know can only be answered by the question "why", which delves into individual and mass decision-making. THAT question has answers that can be found in energy flows, economies of scale, and basic drive of humans towards laziness (maximum reward for minimum effort) etc. as well as the presence of sociopathic parasites among us.
For example: WHY do people spend so much time in cars? Well, they have to drive back and forth to work. WHY do people live so far from work? Well, because (a) bad land-use planning and (b) work is done in concentrated fashion where many people must be concentrated together. WHY must people be concentrated together? Because it is more "efficient" in terms of materials and energy to produce in large groups rather than individually at home. WHY is efficiency important?
Too busy to elucidate but would like to get back with this later.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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To save the ecosystem, three shifts in understanding across political and policy communities are required: (1) of the scale and pace of environmental breakdown, (2) the implications for societies, and (3) the subsequent need for transformative change.
In America, we'll never get past step one.
I mean, half our country (Republicans) don't believe it exists at all and you want to tell them "how bad" it is?
This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown
https://www.ippr.org/research/publications/age-of-environmental-breakd
own?fbclid=IwAR0kf7ojZJCt0yNzup7JAz65W7o7MHEgIxaINAR4O1la4rR9ptskxF5j7jo
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Accelerating down the slippery slope. The "how."
We've lost 60% of wildlife in less than 50 years
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/weve-lost-60-of-wildlife-in-les
s-than-50-years/
We're going to run out of wildlife. When they go, we go. This trend is accelerating, no thanks to reichwingers.
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Forbes, the well-known communist publication:
Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050
https://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhansen/2016/02/09/unless-it-changes-c
apitalism-will-starve-humanity-by-2050/#120e50747ccc
Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it’s devastated the planet and has failed to improve human well-being at scale.
• Species are going extinct at a rate 1,000 times faster than that of the natural rate over the previous 65 million years (see Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School).
• Since 2000, 6 million hectares of primary forest have been lost each year. That’s 14,826,322 acres, or just less than the entire state of West Virginia (see the 2010 assessment by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN).
• Even in the U.S., 15% of the population lives below the poverty line. For children under the age of 18, that number increases to 20% (see U.S. Census).
• The world’s population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050 (see United Nations' projections).
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