The explosive Creek fire, fueled by beetle-killed trees, is a hint of the Sierra Nevada’s future unless California greatly expands prescribed burns.
Among the signatories of the warning was William Rees, a population ecologist at the University of British Columbia best known as the originator of the “ecological footprint” concept, which measures the total amount of environmental input needed to maintain a given lifestyle.
Another of the signatories on the warning letter is Will Steffen, a retired Earth systems scientist from Australian National University. Steffen singles out the neoliberal economic growth paradigm — the pursuit of ever expanding GDP — as “incompatible with a well-functioning Earth system at the planetary level.” Collapse, he
The models showed that any system based on exponential economic and population growth crashed eventually. The gloomiest model was the one in which the “present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged.” In that “business as usual” scenario, collapse would begin slowly in the 2020s and accelerate thereafter.
opinion Fearmongering is not journalism!
opinion It makes me feel better to know Billinda Gates, John Kerry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore and the other Climate Change pastors all constantly fly around the world in private jets to evangelize to us to lower our carbon footprints.
opinion I remember hearing this as a child and here we are 50 years later still around.
opinion Rather late and foolish for that now. Populating the earth with 7 billion people was the easy part. Sustaining them will be the difficult part.
opinion Okay but they need a better name for that field of study
opinion We are doomed(part 2)!
opinion We are doomed!
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opinion Yes it will
opinion When you’re done with your moving boxes, you call a collapseologist.
opinion I don't know WTF a collapseologist is but just about everyone knows THAT!
opinion Shut up