Environmental Catastrpohe
Chapter 3
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Environmental catastrophe
“Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before – that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment”
Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path
The opening quote by Buckminster Fuller suggests how we may be standing at a pivotal time in our planets future and whether we act on it is up to us to decide or rather those in charge as to whether we will end up creating hedonistic utopia or a dystopic oblivion for our futures.
There are geologists who now believe that human activity has so irrevocably altered our planet that we have entered a new geological age. A time when humans are the main driver of planetary change. The Anthropocene age of man. There are also other professionals who believe that have the theory that the environmental does not exist or has been blown out of proportion.
DAN CLOER also states in his essay A New Earth that we are also “now getting in the way of nature itself” and questions how long we should take our world for granted.
Climate scientists are questioning if we have reached an environmental tipping point but there are disagreements as to what to do about it.
The list of ills and possible remedies to them are numerous and architects have
Money talks
One of the questions to ask is whether are the rich elite willing to give a crumb their hoarded wealth’s to the rest of the world to be able to create a world of harmony. Scenes recently around the world include the worldwide occupy movement seem to point out that thwey are not.
One of the greatest worries about our future is the speed of the population
1500
Environmental catastrophe
“Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before – that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment”
Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path
The opening quote by Buckminster Fuller suggests how we may be standing at a pivotal time in our planets future and whether we act on it is up to us to decide or rather those in charge as to whether we will end up creating hedonistic utopia or a dystopic oblivion for our futures.
There are geologists who now believe that human activity has so irrevocably altered our planet that we have entered a new geological age. A time when humans are the main driver of planetary change. The Anthropocene age of man. There are also other professionals who believe that have the theory that the environmental does not exist or has been blown out of proportion.
DAN CLOER also states in his essay A New Earth that we are also “now getting in the way of nature itself” and questions how long we should take our world for granted.
Climate scientists are questioning if we have reached an environmental tipping point but there are disagreements as to what to do about it.
The list of ills and possible remedies to them are numerous and architects have
Money talks
One of the questions to ask is whether are the rich elite willing to give a crumb their hoarded wealth’s to the rest of the world to be able to create a world of harmony. Scenes recently around the world include the worldwide occupy movement seem to point out that thwey are not.
One of the greatest worries about our future is the speed of the population