Dodos unite. ‘If you were to take a comparative look back at our planet during the 1950s ...you would probably first notice that millions of pieces of space trash had disappeared ...[t]he moon would appear six and a half feet closer to Earth, and the continents of Europe and North America would be four feet closer together....[t]here would be two-thirds fewer humans on the planet...[o]ver a million different species of plants and animals would exist that have since gone extinct. There would be 90 percent more fish, a billion fewer tons of plastic, and 40 percent more phytoplankton...There would be twice as many trees...three times more drinking water available from ancient aquifers...80 percent more ice covering the northern pole during the summer season and 30 percent less carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere...If Doomsday Preppers, the highest-rated show on the National Geographic Channel is any indication, the general public seems to be getting ready for some sort of societal collapse....there are some clarion calls coming from a crowd that’s less into bug-out bags and eschatology. Well-respected scientists and journalists have come to some scarily sane-sounding conclusions about the threat human-induced climate change poses to the survival of the human species.‘vice/read/near-term-extinctionists-believe-the-world-is-going-to-end-very-soon
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:42:18 +0000
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