250,000 people added to this planet every day...
116 square miles of rainforest destroyed every day...
15 million tons of carbon added to the atmosphere every day...
And perhaps the worst statistic of all, 50-100 species, gone, forever, every day...
Joe Medeiros may as well have been using a loud speaker, because those words shattered my ear drums. It's figures like this that makes the idea of sustainable living on this planet material for a sci-fi flick. I mean, seriously, we're going to reach the tipping point in our lifetime if nothing is done, and then what are we going to do?
If your house was in the middle of burning down, would you go back in and install a smoke detector?
I must be a bleeding heart liberal environmentalist, because everything that Joe said spoke to me. It bugs me about our world standing, having such a small percentage of the world's population and still using a good chunk of its resources. I've never left the continent, so I haven't seen how people live overseas, but I doubt other countries are blind to these statistics. I know if I were in their position, I would be fighting for change. I wonder if, or when, the next World War happens, if it will be over resources?
Actually, with the way we are heading, the next World War will probably be just that, the World warring against us. Like any other species which maximizes its carrying capacity, we will be no different.
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