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More Than 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Issue 'Warning To Humanity' (www.cbc.ca)

Posted by BeauHD on from the call-to-action dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.ca: More than 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth. It comes 25 years after the first notice in 1992 when a mere 1,500 scientists issued a similar warning. This new cautioning -- which gained popularity on Twitter with #ScientistsWarningToHumanity -- garnered more than 15,000 signatures. William Ripple of Oregon State University's College of Forestry, who started the campaign, said that he came across the 1992 warning last February, and noticed that this year happened to mark the 25th anniversary. Together with his graduate student, Christopher Wolf, he decided to revisit the concerns raised then, and collect global data for different variables to show trends over the past 25 years. Ripple found: A decline in freshwater availability; Unsustainable marine fisheries; Ocean dead zones; Forest losses; Dwindling biodiversity; Climate change; Population growth. There was one positive outcome, however: a rapid decline in ozone depletion. One of the potential solutions is to stabilize the population. If we reduce family size, consumption patterns don't rise as much. And that can be done by empowering girls and women, providing sexual education and education on family planning.

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  1. 50,000 coal miners order cease and desist by jfdavis668 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The 15,000 scientists are overruled by the 50,000 US coal miners.

  2. Empowering girls and women for global warming? by cayenne8 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If we reduce family size, consumption patterns don't rise as much. And that can be done by empowering girls and women, providing sexual education and education on family planning.

    Ok...I thought "No meant NO".....what more empowerment does it require?

    Say no, and quit spreading your legs unless you want to risk having a kid, even with "protection", you can't be 100% sure.

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  3. Just girls and women, eh? by grasshoppa · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about "empowering" boys and men too? Give them a heads up on the legal dangers to themselves and their future children if they participate in the rigged game of marriage ( at least in the west ).

    But hell, I guess as long as women are looked after it's all A-OK.

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  4. And the solution is? No? How about the problem? by sheph · · Score: 1, Troll

    Get back to me when 15,000 scientists agree on what the problem is with concrete evidence as opposed to this is what we think. Then we can start arguing about what the solution should be. This is how real science is supposed to work.

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  5. Corelating ozone depletion with female empowerment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    And people sit there and wonder why there's an anti-science sentiment that keeps growing...

  6. Re:So... what can the average prole do? by SpankiMonki · · Score: 1, Troll

    So, other than driving a Prius and moving to a sardine can style apartment in the inner city, what realistically can people do as something against AGW?

    How about having no more than one child? A lot of our problems would be greatly reduced (if not eliminated entirely) if the planet had fewer humans.