Each day 100 living species become extinct, 1,000 acres of peat bogs are excavated and 150,000 acres of tropical rainforest are destroyed. Each day, 2 million tons of toxic waste is dumped in to our rivers and seas, 22 million tons of oil are extracted and 100 million tons of greenhouse gases are released.
Today large scale habitat destruction, massive soil depletion, extensive deforestation lead to worldwide disruption of natural cycles and the irreversibility of extinction. Today instances of mass extinction occur with greater frequency, greater rapidity and greater impact than at any other time.
This destruction, damage and loss comes at an enormous cost.
A recent report for the United Nations has found that 3,000 of the world’s biggest corporations caused $2.2 trillion of ecocide in 2008. Read more here
A coal mine. Coordinates: South 03' 09", East 115' 18".
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@David S. You’re being very naive if you believe for one moment the so called “deniers” will be spared by these lunatics. The agenda behind this legislation has nothing to do with improving the lot a humanity. It has more to do with control. No one in their right mind denies deforestation of the amazon is scandalous. But the insidious agenda behind their machinations are revealed not only through their attemps to character assassinate some of the leading climatologists who disagree with them(Professor Lindzen at MIT for example) but also by labelling people who disagree with them as deniers. When I was young I often heard people expressing their shock at how the Germans allowed Hitler to seduce them and lead them to the brink of total destruction. The same applies to the youth today who are being brainwashed by a cadre of left wing ideologues which will have even more dangerous and far-reaching consequences for the world if we let them succeed.
Considering the more than 90 million of tons of greenhouse gasses belched daily into our atmosphere, the terrible human and ecosystem consequences resulting from this, and the apocalyptic risks of continuing to emit greenhouse gasses at such destructive levels, those doubting that Global warming is ecocide simply reflect the success of the powerful lobbies in spreading doubt and confusion on this topic.
I like this quote from James Cameron
“Anybody that is a global-warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up their ass I’m not sure they could hear me”
Let’s make it clear. There is global warming – the signs are very clear. And yes there is a maquination exploiting and fueling the anti global warming movement (See Annie Leonard’s Story of Cap and Trade). At least in Europe governments are pushing “green taxes” and forcing citizens to pay for the industrialists inertia. You are already paying for water. Is this one step towards paying for air?
But don’t let this distract us from the fact that we are polluting our planet disproportionately – and that CO2 (nevermind methane) is a part of it no matter how small.
i like the way George Carlin the comiedian put it… “if you think a few plastic bags, and some tin cans are going to hurt the earth… i know what it is, the erarth has been here for billions of years and will continue to be here for billions of years. when all is said and done, the earth will be fine… its the the people that are fucked!”
Rest in peace George…