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Revi wrote:http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2099971.ece
The area's 400 tigers are also in danger.
billg wrote:If we put our collective minds together...NASA scientists, permaculturists, eco-engineers, community planners...we could design specialized self-sustaining cities . They would be the modern version of Noah's Ark.
Perhaps, we could use climate change computer similations to determine which areas of the world will be the most suitable for these settlements. The settlements could be networked somehow. It would be better to have several settlements to increase the chances of survival.
Perhaps, we could use these settlements to reseed the planet and make it more habitable again.
MrBill wrote:billg wrote:Perhaps, we could use climate change computer similations to determine which areas of the world will be the most suitable for these settlements. The settlements could be networked somehow. It would be better to have several settlements to increase the chances of survival.
Perhaps, we could use these settlements to reseed the planet and make it more habitable again.
Hundreds of billions of dollars and countless resources wasted in a vain attempt to create 'an out' instead of collectively facing and committing those same time and resources to solving existing problems. Part of the dilemma we have now is not lack of resources, but continually trying to treat the symptoms of uncontrolled population growth and wasteful use of our energy and natural resources instead of solving the underlying problem of living unsustainably within the existing limits of our environment. The moon will not change that. It just gives us a false hope.
The planet is fine. The people are fucked.
...The planet isn't going anywhere. We are. We're going away. Pack your shit folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace either, thank god for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here, and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.
...So the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now. And I think that's really started already, don't you?...
coyote wrote:George Carlin:The planet is fine. The people are fucked.
manu wrote:Revi I fully agree. Simple living and high thinking is the answer. Localization not globalization. People lived that way for thousands of years.
Earth is now so dangerous that humans must find a new home if the species is to survive. That was Stephen Hawking's message last week. But where should we go? Alok Jha weighs up the options, from the mountains of Mars to the acid clouds of Venus.
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