The world's ticking timebomb

[Vilya]

At current levels of global consumption, WWF said, humanity would be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050. Between 1961 and 2003 mankind's global footprint had tripled.
Experts say that seas will become emptied of fish while forests - which absorb carbon dioxide emissions - are completely destroyed and freshwater supplies become scarce and polluted.

Marine crisis:?North Atlantic cod stocks have collapsed from an estimated 264,000 tonnes in 1970 to under 60,000 in 1995.

Pollution: ?The United States places the greatest pressure on the environment, with its carbon dioxide emissions and over-consumption. It takes 12.2 hectares of land to support each American citizen and 6.29 for each Briton, while the figure for Burundi is just half a hectare.

Shrinking Forests:?Between 1970 and 2002 forest cover has dwindled by 12 per cent.

 

[Man-Thing]

YOU better get off the computer and quit wasting energy.

 

[Dangerous]

There is also loads of radioactive and nuclear waste sitting in warehouses in industrial estates in major cities, or that has been shipped out to the country.
All that crap is highly explosive and toxic to humans, nice.

 

[blind_fury]

Silly Earthlings. Destroying the only life-support system in the galaxy. lolz!

 

[enterthemadness]

....why do I live on a planet run by fools who don't even take care of it?

 

[DOG LIPS]

At current levels of global consumption, WWF said, humanity would be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050. Between 1961 and 2003 mankind's global footprint had tripled.
Experts say that seas will become emptied of fish while forests - which absorb carbon dioxide emissions - are completely destroyed and freshwater supplies become scarce and polluted.

Ooooohh yeah, brother! Whatchu gunna do brother??

 

[enterthemadness]

*clothesline Hogan*

that's what!

Brother!

 

[Avangarde]

And God is gunna fix it right!..........RIGHT!!!!!!!

 

[Vilya]

Ooooohh yeah, brother! Whatchu gunna do brother??

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle.

 

[Vilya]

Some energy saving tips:

1) Wasting water wastes electricity. Why? Because the biggest use of electricity in most cities is supplying water and cleaning it up after it's been used!

2) Use a broom instead of a hose to clean off the driveway, patio or deck - this will save hundreds of gallons of water each year.

2) If you fill up one side of the sink with soapy water and the other side with rinse water and if you don't let the faucet run - you'll use half as much water as a dishwasher does. Doing the dishes this way can save enough water for a five-minute shower!

3) one large refrigerator is cheaper to run than two smaller ones.

4) When your family goes shopping, think about taking bags with you. Only about 700 paper bags can be made from one 15-year-old tree. A large grocery store can use that many bags before lunch! Plastic bags start out as either oil or natural gas. Oil and natural gas are non-renewable resources. This means they can't be reused, and when they are all gone, they are gone forever. And throw-away bags add a lot of pollution to the environment. If plastic and paper bags are used once and go to landfills, they stay there for hundreds of years

5) If every American recycled his or her newspaper just one day a week, we would save about 36 million trees a year. You can save a tree for every four feet of paper you recycle. It takes half as much energy to make recycled newspaper as it takes to make fresh newsprint from trees.

 

[War Lord]

According to Malthus, we should have been dead ages ago.

Whatever problems arise, we'll solve them.

 

[Vilya]

According to Malthus, we should have been dead ages ago.

Whatever problems arise, we'll solve them.

When the world was young and men were few, what u said would be true. But i like your optimism.

 

[Duende Verde]

Ooooohh yeah, brother! Whatchu gunna do brother??

 

[blind_fury]

According to Malthus, we should have been dead ages ago.

Whatever problems arise, we'll solve them.

"If there was a problem yo I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

ICE ICE BABY! too cold! too cold!"

 

[Maxwell Smart]

5) If every American recycled his or her newspaper just one day a week, we would save about 36 million trees a year. You can save a tree for every four feet of paper you recycle. It takes half as much energy to make recycled newspaper as it takes to make fresh newsprint from trees.

Damn!

I've heard before that if every American home replaced just ONE incandescent light bulb with a fluorescent light bulb it would be equivalent to taking over 1,000,000 automobiles off the road.

 

[chaseter]

At current levels of global consumption, WWF said, humanity would be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050. Between 1961 and 2003 mankind's global footprint had tripled.
Experts say that seas will become emptied of fish while forests - which absorb carbon dioxide emissions - are completely destroyed and freshwater supplies become scarce and polluted.

Marine crisis:?North Atlantic cod stocks have collapsed from an estimated 264,000 tonnes in 1970 to under 60,000 in 1995.

Pollution: ?The United States places the greatest pressure on the environment, with its carbon dioxide emissions and over-consumption. It takes 12.2 hectares of land to support each American citizen and 6.29 for each Briton, while the figure for Burundi is just half a hectare.

Shrinking Forests:?Between 1970 and 2002 forest cover has dwindled by 12 per cent.

It is all the Chinese...all whatever billion of them.

 

[cyborg ninja 14]

At current levels of global consumption, WWF said

Why would the World Wrestling Federation care

 

[SuperFerret]

Alot of what is "recycled" ends up in landfills anyway.

Oh, and WTF is "mankind's global footprint"?

 

[StorminNorman]

Yeah. Hey, speaking of which, how are we doing on that Cancer thing???....Oh, not so good, huh. Well, what about AIDS? ****...really?....well, um, yeah we'll be able to figure something out right away when the planet is entirely ****ed up. Think I'll go buy 14 Hummers and a Textile Plant.

Bad examples. We have found multiple ways to treat cancer and some ways to completely cure it. We have also made great advancements in HIV/AIDS research.

I believe Jonty is right, if humanity is pushed we will fix our own problems.

 

[enterthemadness]

Why would the World Wrestling Federation care

World Wildlife Fund. WWF chaned its name to WWE years ago,..c'mon now..living under a rock or something?

 

[Danalys]

Alot of what is "recycled" ends up in landfills anyway.

Oh, and WTF is "mankind's global footprint"?

it's the area used to provide what humans use. thing is we get better at producing more in less space but it still goes up.

 

[SuperFerret]

it's the area used to provide what humans use. thing is we get better at producing more in less space but it still goes up.

Ah, I thought it meant the lasting effect humanity will have on this planet.

 

[Danalys]

the planet can always recupurate. it's just whether that involves the exstinction of humanity or not in the process.they'll still be bacteria living off deep sea vents no matter what.

 

[SuperFerret]

the planet can always recupurate. it's just whether that involves the exstinction of humanity or not in the process.they'll still be bacteria living off deep sea vents no matter what.

I'm well aware of that fact. Life on this planet has survived much worse than humanity.

 

[blind_fury]

I'm well aware of that fact. Life on this planet has survived much worse than humanity.

Um no. It hasn't.