•• "It is rapidly expanding energy use, mainly driven by fossil fuels, that explains why humanity is on the verge of breaching planetary sustainability boundaries through global warming, biodiversity loss, and disturbance of the nitrogen-cycle balance and other measures of the sustainability of the Earth"s ecosystem," the report says.
•• "About half of the forests that once covered the Earth are gone, groundwater resources are being depleted and contaminated, enormous reductions in biodiversity have already taken place," according to the report, and, "through increased burning of fossil fuels, the stability of the planet's climate is being threatened by global warming."
COMMENT:
Since the oil industry is the 2nd or 1st largest contributor (depending upon which article you read) to carbon emissions, seems they gotta go--or we all go. Perhaps they know this and their frenzy to drill for the last of their precious $ from the Earth is the reason we are experiencing such a sense of assault upon our communities, water, air, land and cultures. If you knew your wheel barrel full of gold would be worthless in a few years when a new currency would be replacing it, would you leave it to expire? This, however, this does not give industry the right, regardless.....let us launch the new Environmental Movement today and protect the last vestiges industry has yet to destroy!
NEW YORK, New York, July 5, 2011 (ENS) - Humanity is near to breaching the sustainability of Earth, and needs a technological revolution greater and faster than the industrial revolution to avoid "a major planetary catastrophe," warns a new United Nations report.
"The World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation," published today by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs calls for investments of at least $1.9 trillion per year to avert this catastrophe.
"It is rapidly expanding energy use, mainly driven by fossil fuels, that explains why humanity is on the verge of breaching planetary sustainability boundaries through global warming, biodiversity loss, and disturbance of the nitrogen-cycle balance and other measures of the sustainability of the Earth"s ecosystem," the report says...continued....
