"We're committing suicide -- and our leaders are the executioners."

Forget going green. It's too late and Earth doesn't care.

(Because we've already triggered the sixth great period of species extinction.)

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/forget-going-green-earth-doesnt-care-2010-09-07


So what's Earth now telling its old friend, Nobel physicist Laughlin? Earth is exposing the real problem that's forcing us into the sixth species extinction, the elimination of toxic species threatening Earth's survival: The "real problem is human population pressure generally -- over-harvesting, habitat destruction, pesticide abuse, species invasion and so forth."

So what's the solution? "Slowing manmade extinctions in a meaningful way would require drastically reducing the world's human population. That is unlikely to happen." Get it? Population growth will continue inexorably from six billion to nine billion. Earth doesn't want 50% growth. So the sixth species extension is in progress.

Whether you're an activist or a climate-denier, you can rant and rave all you want -- for or against all the politically correct campaigns to cut carbon emissions, recycle plastic water bottles, eat locally grown organic food, tax breaks for solar energy, buying hybrids or greenophying urban skyscrapers. At best, all that jockeying around may delay the endgame -- the inevitable sixth species extinction -- by a few seconds on the geologic time-clock. But it won't stop the clock. Fifty percent growth guarantees extinctions.

I got nothin' on that guy.

But I can't disagree with what he writes.

The best we can do is limit the amount of suffering, and I haven't a clue how except to produce food in a way that may be sustainable.

Thanks for the dolphins. They were lots of fun.