Links tagged “next scare”

'Of 191 bird and mammal species recorded as having gone extinct since 1500, 95% were on islands...On continents, just six bird and three mammal species were driven to extinction...the greatest threats to species are the very policies and programs being advocated in Rio. Those policies would ban fossil fuels; greatly increase renewable energy use; reduce jobs and living standards in rich nations; and perpetuate poverty, disease, death and desperation in poor countries'

UN Earth Summit 'seeks to shift international focus to 'biodiversity' and supposed threats to plant and animal species as the new 'greatest threat' facing planet Earth. This rebranding is “by design,” according to conference organizers, who have been uncharacteristically candid in describing sustainable development and biodiversity as an “easier sell” than climate change'

'Climate deniers literally crashed party by parachuting onto a beach carrying a 'Climategate 2.0' banner—and public perception in the U.S. on the reliability of climate science continued to shift in their direction, cementing the stalemate on a domestic climate deal'

'We've had more than 700 international agreements on environmental protection & apparently things are still getting worse. So apparently the problem is that we don't have enough of them, we need more international agreements, and they need to be stricter...Would you be shocked to learn that UNEP believes that the only way to prevent disaster was for the 'unsustainable consumption' that was the Western capitalism to be 'reversed?'

'Proposed three years ago in the journal Nature, the boundaries are roughly based on the limits estimated during the past 10,000 years of human activity The endorsement of world leaders for such boundaries -- say, for example, a limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide, land-use change or biodiversity loss -- is expected to be a major rhetorical highlight of the Rio+20 summit'

UN to the rescue! We face doomsday --- 'Unless its forces are controlled by concerted international action, an international group of scientists warns. Unchecked population growth, the disappearance of critical plant and animal species, the over-exploitation of energy resources, and the rapidly warming climate are all combining to bring mounting pressure on the Earth's environmental health, they say'

UN Admits Failure: UN Env. Program report reveals 'the world has made significant progress on only four of the 90 most important environmental objectives agreed on through the U.N. process'