Oceans
Garbage Planet
Garbage. On average, each of us deposits over four pounds of garbage every day in waste baskets around the house. That’s about 30 pounds of garbage per person, per week. If we didn’t take the trash out, it would soon fill up our houses and apartments. If garbage trucks didn’t haul it away, it would [...]
Earth becoming a smoking, glowing, oily mess
“We . . . are turning our planet into a smoking, glowing, oily mess . . . plundering Mother Earth of her treasures . . . refusing to recognize the growing evidence that our reliance on oil, coal and nuclear threatens our health, our security, our economy, our nation and the world,” said Rep. Dennis [...]
Bluefin tuna facing extinction
“Atlantic bluefin tuna could become extinct after an attempt to stop the international buying and selling [of bluefin] was rejected . . . .” CBBC’s Newsround, a website for kids, breaks the bad news to a generation that will inherit oceans devoid of tuna and most other fish. “Numbers of this this type of tuna [...]
Infinite monkeys, finite resources
Ever heard of The Infinite Monkey Theorem? It goes something like this: Given infinite time, a monkey banging randomly on typewriter keys would reproduce a given work, such as Hamlet. Variations of the theorem add more monkeys to reproduce more works, such as the complete plays of Shakespeare, or all the books in the British [...]
Tuna stocks overfished
Time magazine reports that “in September, the European Commission recommended that the E.U. support a temporary suspension of the global trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna . . . . At current fishing rates, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) estimates that Atlantic bluefin that spawn in the Mediterranean could disappear from those waters as early as [...]
depressed about the Depression
I’m baaack. Haven’t written a lick in months. I’ve been bummed out that millions of Americans, including my brother, are out of work, and that the government is lying about it (double their unemployment percentages; it’s closer to 18% than 9%). And I’m angry that instead of prosecuting the crooks at AIG, Goldman Sachs and [...]
Will humanity survive the current mass extinction?
The Earth is experiencing its sixth mass extinction. An estimated 30,000 species are disappearing each year, three or more every hour of every day. By 2050, up to 50 percent of all species could be gone. The most recent of five previous mass extinctions was 65 million years ago and caused the demise of dinosaurs [...]
Evidence TEOTWAWKI is fast approaching
NOTE: This original post was the basis for a permanent “Evidence” page. Click here for the updated page. This post provides examples of the sort of evidence that has persuaded me that we are perilously close to the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI). No one item makes the case, but perhaps [...]
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