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Originally Posted by Paul Waters
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Just had a look at some pages.. yep!! Depressing!!
Seriously.. who knows on the natural disaster stuff? But there are areas which are progressing towards being non-sustainable. Some of these are the continuing deforestation on the planet, population growth and global warming (exists whether we like or not) and numerous other elements
All of the above are interlinked and if they continue, will have a sustantial effect.
A few months back I ended up chatting with a group of researchers and one guy in particular. They specialized in advising, mainly govts, but others as well on the effects of eco change and have a massive budget for this stuff extending to satellite operations monitoring changes in the earth surface (like percentages of deforestation etc)
It was suggested the decline in standards of living would happen relatively quickly. This was illustrated using a cup. If the cup was 10% full and that represented the population on the planet and the population increased at, say 10% over 10 years. When that cup was 50% full, how long is going to take to overflow and be unsustainable for "normal life"?
It is a serious problem even now - govts already know, and it has been repeated several times, but the general attitude is "Well, I won't be in power when it happens, so why bother?". On the flip side,some govts are bothering, but it needs lots more involved to have an effect on the problem/potential problem
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