Let’s prove them wrong. [Easy solution: buy less, drive less, eat less meat.]
According to Sri Lanka Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Patali Champika Ranawaka, climate change has resulted in mass extinction in the past. This time around, it could lead to our own demise:
“Scientists warn that one third of the animals and plants will disappear by 2050 and they predict that this man made global warming will also lead to extinction of the human race if no action is taken to control it,” said Minister Ranawaka.
He continues to point out the limits to exponential growth in a world with finite resources.
“The scarcity of resources should be the main focus today. Land will not double itself and the same can be said about minerals, unpolluted air and water. The life blood of economic development is fossil fuels but these are being reduced at high speed. It is said that 86 per cent of present day economic activities is based on fossil fuels. What will we do when the supply runs dry?”
He finally makes the heart-warming point that once temperatures rise by more than 2% only the cockroaches will survive. What a world that would be.
Source: Daily Mirror
