Brazil Amazon deforestation soars

[StrongTurd]

In the last five months of 2007, 3,235 sq km (1,250 sq miles) were lost.

Gilberto Camara, whose National Institute of Space Research provides satellite imaging of the Amazon, said the figure was unprecedented.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7206165.stm

Seriously, why don't they just cut the entire forest down so that we can all suffocate and die?!

I believe that the human race is like a virus that will in time destroy its host, namely the ecosystem of planet earth and it will then go extinct. All the wonderful technology that we have developed with our highly evolved brains means nothing. All it actually does is to facilitate the most rapid way possible to plunder the earth's finite natural resources.

Here's one guy that agrees with me:

"The sheer scale of what is now required [to save the planet] has never been attempted and the shortfall between scientific theory and political action remains huge. There is a lot wrong with our world. But it is not as bad as many people think. It is actually worse."

"...this is the first time in the history of the Earth that species themselves by their own activities are at risk of generating their own demise. What we now face is a transformation of our world and its ecosystems at an exponential rate, and unprecedentedly brought about not by natural forces, but by the activities of the dominant species across the planet."

"The lesson is that if we continue with activities which destroy our environment and undermine the conditions for our own survival, we are the virus. Making the change needed to avoid that fate is perhaps the greatest challenge we have ever faced."

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,895090,00.html

Personally I don't think we are capable of saving the human race from self-destruction. Mother Earth will have her revenge yet.

 

[StrongTurd]

And it gets worse. Here's the latest from Al Gore:

New evidence shows "the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us," the former US vice president and climate campaigner told delegates at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.

There are now forecasts that the North Pole ice cap may disappear entirely during summer months in as little as five years, Gore said.

"This is a planetary emergency. There has never been anything remotely like it in the entire history of human civilisation. We are putting at risk all of human civilisation," he added.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080124/sc_afp/davosclimatewarmingenvironment_080124102850

 

[lion_fish]

MAybe its a good thing for the planet if Man does go extinct or close to it...

 

[The Cosmos]

Yes. Humanity has always been it's worst enemy.

 

[stoke]

Woohoo! Me est gonna party like it's nineteen ninety nine degree's outside!