[Peace-discuss] Global warming and human civilization

[Karen Medina]

We would be better off controlling the largest consumers of 
the finite resources. The subsistence survivors actually 
consume very little, produce much less harmfull waste 
products, and are darn good at recycling.

-karen medina

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:43:53 -0600
>From: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Global warming and human 
civilization  
>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>   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/i
ndex.htm
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