Sunday, June 10, 2007

Warning to Humanity

This is the introduction to World Scientists' Warning to Humanity (1992):

Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about.

"Some 1,700 of the world's leading scientists, including the majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences, issued this appeal in November 1992," according to The Union of Concerned Scientists.

1992. Fifteen years ago. And we have only further damaged the Earth.

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