Freitag, Juni 27, 2008
Peak Man
maybe we aren't just facing Peak Oil or Peak Food or Peak Water, but Peak Man. That is, is it really possible that there are more people on this planet than its resources can support?
Quelle: Dow Jones Has Worst June Since Great Depression, American Model in Decline
Labels: Menschheit, Umwelt, Wirtschaft, Zukunft
Dienstag, Dezember 11, 2007
Abtreibung gegen den Klimawandel
So seriously, in fact, that Vernelli aborted a pregnancy and, by age 27, had herself sterilized. Baby-making, she says, is "selfish" and "all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet."
Because Toni and her husband, Ed, are childless and vegan, they say they can justify one long-haul airplane trip per year and still remain carbon neutral.
[...] If we're not saving the planet for our kids, for whom are we saving it? After we're all sterilized and aborted, who's going to appreciate the fact that global warming is, by golly, under control? Who's going to live to tell the tale?
[...] Suddenly, the unborn is of no greater importance than the contents of our recycling bin. Like Weight Watchers dieters substituting carbs for sugars, we trade off future members of the human race to neutralize insults to Earth's balance in the present.
Quelle: Survival of the Stupidest
Ganz gut war auch dieser Seitenhieb:
The Darwin Awards folks, who honor those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it, [...]
... welcher mich an die Fusszeile eines Blog-Lesers von mir erinnert:
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Dank: Jan
Labels: Funny, Menschheit, Umwelt
Freitag, Dezember 07, 2007
Behindert
That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''
Quelle: World's Strongest Dad
``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''
Labels: Menschheit
Samstag, Dezember 01, 2007
Die maximale Traglast ist erreicht
We cannot come to terms with the fact that as a species we have gone beyond the ability of the planet to accommodate us. We have bred ourselves beyond the limits. We have consumed, polluted, and expanded beyond our means, and after several thousand years of superficial technological solutions we are now running short of answers. Biologists explain such expansion in terms of "carrying capacity": lemmings and snowshoe hares — and a great many other species — have the same problem; overpopulation and over-consumption lead to die-off.
Quelle: The First Days Of Petro Collapse
Labels: Erde, Menschheit, Planet, Umwelt
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