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Originally Posted by Taxi
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All our eggs are in a basket called earth, and im not sure what kind of catastrophic event its gonna take for humanity to get its shit together.
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Actually, you're taking the environmentalists at their word that things are getting worse. In reality, if you look at the trends (rather than cherry picking short durations like they do) things have improved in most areas since the movement started in the 70s. The environmental lobby is BIG MONEY and, like all things, they need to stay on the doom and gloom message or the money pipe will slow to a trickle.
Sure there are setbacks (like the BP debacle, and for me the jury is still out on Global Warming) but the news is good on most fronts - read "The Skeptical Environmentalist" or see this Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ske...vironmentalist
Very controversial work, but makes a lot of sense that the scientists are chasing their grants and the environmentalists are chasing their donations, so it's understandable that the opposition has been fierce, but the work has stood up to scrutiny.
Regards,
Mg