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dys
October 24th, 2006, 11:58 AM
Is one of the few species on the planet who's population increased in the past few years.

And we're all to blame.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday.

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061024/2006-10-24T102931Z_01_L19402119_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ENVIRONMENT-WWF-PLANET-DC.html

^ Short article worth reading.

This kind of stuff is extremely depressing. :(
Zogo
October 25th, 2006, 12:17 AM
captain planet would exterminate many people.
AntioK
October 25th, 2006, 01:29 PM
Haha God i can't believe im gonna be young enough to witness the destruction of this planet.....


I couldn't have been born 10-20 years earliar?
leg
October 25th, 2006, 01:48 PM
I really think there isn't much to worry about with regards to that article. We may be consuming more energy in the future, but we will also be finding more ways to harvest it. Solar energy for one will most likely be used greatly in the future.
dys
October 25th, 2006, 02:07 PM
I can see technology helping out in certain ways as leg mentioned, but in regards to food consumption, human waste and just plain lacking in space for a population increasing at a huge exponential rate, technology isn't going to help very much in those categories. There are some hypotheticals that technology could help them on, but nothing of great reality as of yet. 'Yet' being the key word I suppose.
janordy
October 25th, 2006, 06:37 PM
Don't need to worry at all. We all have seen it in past, anytime a species grows out of control some new virus comes out and kills off 1/3 of population and we go back and start all over again. Humans are long over due for a new global virus.
Jimyd
October 25th, 2006, 07:29 PM
I say we start frying up dolphins. I bet they taste like chicken.
FluxCapacitor
October 25th, 2006, 07:41 PM
Is one of the few species on the planet who's population increased in the past few years.

And we're all to blame.



http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061024/2006-10-24T102931Z_01_L19402119_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ENVIRONMENT-WWF-PLANET-DC.html

^ Short article worth reading.

This kind of stuff is extremely depressing. :(

Since when is the WWF an environmental thing. They need to bring back Macho Man.
MV8
October 25th, 2006, 07:51 PM
I say we start frying up dolphins. I bet they taste like chicken.


Ever notice how the tuna tastes different without the dolphin....
I miss the pre-dolphin-free tuna days of the 70's... :D

I wonder what Wombat's taste like...
SUPITSREV
October 26th, 2006, 08:01 AM
ive always wanted 5 planets
MidnightStalker
October 26th, 2006, 02:09 PM
Don't need to worry at all. We all have seen it in past, anytime a species grows out of control some new virus comes out and kills off 1/3 of population and we go back and start all over again. Humans are long over due for a new global virus.
Fucking SARS. What happened to it?
And what the Hell Bird Flu? What happened to you!

GG retarded media and their need for attention.
Thrash
October 26th, 2006, 03:40 PM
GG uninformed media. Like SARS and H5N1 are really the biggest risks for an outbreak to us right now. :rolleyes:
polarity
October 26th, 2006, 04:36 PM
In Hantavirus we trust.
Thrash
October 26th, 2006, 04:51 PM
I was thinking Filoviruses, but pick your poison.
Zogo
October 27th, 2006, 07:50 PM
Fucking SARS. What happened to it?
And what the Hell Bird Flu? What happened to you!

west nile virus, SARS, bird flu, sepsis kill like 3 people a year and yet are on TV 24/7

meanwhile we have millions dying from other random junk.

I laugh at the mainstream media.
MidnightStalker
October 28th, 2006, 03:24 PM
Yeah, I'm really into the underground media.
Zogo
October 29th, 2006, 12:27 AM
Yeah, I'm really into the underground media.

like what?
MidnightStalker
October 29th, 2006, 01:33 AM
sarcasmnews.com
larcain
October 29th, 2006, 01:12 AM
sarcasmnews.com
LOl!! Youre trying to pound a marshmellow through a brick wall.
Toastie
October 29th, 2006, 11:01 AM
2 planets worth of natural resources.... i wonder how they came about measuring that...
SteelValor
October 30th, 2006, 04:24 PM
LOl!! Youre trying to pound a marshmellow through a brick wall.

rofl
dys
November 3rd, 2006, 08:33 AM
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061103/D8L59FQ00.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Clambakes, crabcakes, swordfish steaks and even humble fish sticks could be little more than a fond memory in a few decades. If current trends of overfishing and pollution continue, the populations of just about all seafood face collapse by 2048, a team of ecologists and economists warns in a report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

Possibly sensationalism, but more then likely there is some truth within all of it.
Zogo
November 3rd, 2006, 11:37 PM
we'll be able to clone them by then.
MidnightStalker
November 4th, 2006, 03:07 PM
Not efficiently. Fish for this rich.
Breaker
November 7th, 2006, 08:58 PM
Fucking SARS. What happened to it?
And what the Hell Bird Flu? What happened to you!

GG retarded media and their need for attention.

Those diseases are ass pimples compaired to the black plague. I don't know why anyone would even get hyped because some people are dying from a disease weaker than the flu. Actually i do. -- I support the return of the bubonic plague.