Monday, October 04, 2004

Earth 'will expire by 2050'

"Earth's population will be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate, according to a report out this week." (Via Post-Atomic.)

I'm reconciled to the very real threat of ecological apocalypse in my (natural) lifetime. But a lot of people -- especially Americans, whose "news" media virtually ignores environmental issues -- are going to be even more frightened than I am when humans start dying by the hundreds of millions.





Will organizations like the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement become "mainstream" within the next few decades?

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