[Peace-discuss] Global warming and human civilization

[Morton K. Brussel]

Just think about it. Although there are many uncertainties about  
global warming, reading the article linked below should give us all  
reason to pause, and to think about what can be done.  --mkb

A quote:

Around the world, humanity has reduced nature's capacity to dampen  
extremes
to an astonishing degree: more than 59% of the world's accessible land
degraded  by improper agriculture, deforestation, and development;  
half the world's
available fresh water now co-opted for human use at the expense of other
species  and ecosystems; more than half the world's mangroves  
destroyed; half the
world's  wetlands drained or ruined; one-fifth of the world's coral  
reefs
(including  crucial barrier reefs) destroyed and one-half damaged-- 
the list goes on
and  on.

See the rest of the (alarmist?) article, by Eugene Linden, at :

http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/17/news/economy/climate_fortune/index.htm

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