Life and human institutions like national economies are utterly dependent upon the Earth for existence; but too many of our leaders view the Earth as some kind of thing to be manipulated, dissipated, and ravaged secondary to their adamant practice of a religion called Endless Economic Growth. This clear and obvious object of their idolatry is the soon to become unsustainable expansion of the leviathan-like, global political economy. What a colossal sham. What a shame. What a shambles for our children to confront.

Always with thanks,

Steve

Important Notice ... WARNING!

[First Draft: February 25, 2005]

Unless the global energy consumption is reduced rapidly--by mid 2006--to levels below 60EJ/year (6E+19 joules/year), our studies show that the runaway positive feedback loops that are destroying Earth's ecosystems including ozone holes, global heating, extreme climatic events, toxic pollution, resources depletion, unethical conduct, war, and disease pandemics would reach the point of no return, overwhelm our life support systems and render most of our population centers uninhabitable by as early as 2015, possibly earlier.

Failure to rein back the global energy consumption to the levels below 60 exajoules by June 2006 would render the concept of sustainable management redundant (it seems highly unlikely that post industrial civilization would voluntarily sacrifice its perceived privileges and values in favor of sustaining life on Earth).

http://msrb.wordpress.com/stop-burning-earth/

Maybe you are the butterfly that starts the hurricane of GHG emissions reform. Flap some wings and find out.

Put the Carbon Back

All that CO2 on "liftoff"...


Texeme.Construct(function(x)=Participation(x))

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2008/04/even ...

Consider the American lifestyles that the students looked at. One was led by what they dubbed a "Bill Gates approximation". Their supervisor, mechanical engineer Timothy Gutowski, says they didn't approach the real Gates for the project, as the Microsoft co-founder and multibillionaire probably would not "end up looking good". Gutowski was right. According to estimates based on the lifestyle Gates leads, his energy use is 10,000 times the global average.