Earth To Humankind

Back Off, Say good-bye to your car, computer, everything. We are burning up the planet too fast to hang on

By Mark Morford
Apr 13, 2005, 17:10
The Earth is going down. Way, way down. To the mat, hard and painful and with a sad moaning broken-boned crunch.

We are chewing her up, spitting her out, stomping and gobbling and burning and gouging and drilling and sucking her dry and we are carelessly replicating ourselves so goddamn fast we can't even stop much less even try to slow the hell down, and all we want is more and faster and with less consequence and pretty soon the Earth is gonna go, well, there you
are, I'm finished, sorry, and boom zing groan, done.

Don't take my world for it. Just read the headlines, the latest major, soul-stabbing report.
It's one of those stories that sort of punches you in the karmic gut, about how they just completed this unprecedented, four-year, $24 million, U.N.-backed study involving 1,360 scientists from 95 nations who all pored over thousands of satellite images and countless scientific reports and reams of stats, and they all distilled their findings down to one
deadly, heartbreaking summary.

And here it is: We, humankind, people, sentient carbon-based biped creatures, only us and no one else but us because it sure as hell ain't the goddamn lions or caribou or meerkats or rhododendrons, we humans have, in our shockingly short time on this wobbly sphere, used up a staggering 60 percent of the world's grasslands, forests, farmland, rivers and
lakes.

including our standing in the Rapture Index

dp

edit: link

time. This is one of his best but he has so many.

I'm a big fan too, are you on his mailing list?

Today's column is really good too:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/04/15/notes041505.DTL&nl=fix


http://www.kliljedahl.net

is. Now, I just send "marry me" and nothing else. He is such a smartie I'd love to know someone with that kind of smarts and wit.

:)

interesting threadjack tho.

dp

I'm married too. My husband respects my views and even shares some. But, he is not that interested in politics and environmental issues. He is a white business owner, republican fiscally.

people to give up their toys that they feel entitled to is difficult. Give up TV, Cell Phones, Computers, Game Boy, etc? We are techno crazed junkies and it is killing every thing in sight.

Nominated

That's what I call it.

toward more of a matriarical, agrarian-centric society.

Petroleum is kind of like earth testosterone. Too much has caused a host of problems.