The unbelievable irony of all of this is that as the arctic ice melts from global warming, arctic countries are competing to lay claim to the sea floor that will soon be freed from the ice in the hope of finding large gas and oil deposits, which in the end, would cause even more global warming. Oddly enough ,the US is taking a bit of a back seat in this due to failure to ratify the Law of the Sea treaty.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/frozenassets/
Cristine Carrier
University of Southern California
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Lemke <jaylemke@umich.edu>
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:40 am
Subject: Re: [xmca] Human footprint too big for nature
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>
> Gee, I thought this was going to be about the discovery of BigFoot!
>
> And in a way, I guess it is, with the
> too-big-for-our-shoes resource greed of the
> overdeveloped countries (led no doubt by my own)
> marching profitably toward disaster.
>
> I am comforted that I probably won't make it to
> 2050, miracles of modern (also resource
> profligate) medicine, notwithstanding. On the
> other hand, when I taught Environment Science at
> the university in New York for a few years in the
> 1970s, the extrapolations from then current data
> all indicated to me that the first signs of
> global eco-tastrophe would be showing up around
> 2020. Extrapolations are tricky in these matters
> because of all the feedback loops, which
> generally tend to make problems come sooner and
> be worse than expected. (If you are not prone to
> nightmares, or eco-anxiety, have a look at
> Holling & Gunderson, 2002, _Panarchy_, or
> http://www.resalliance.org/1.php under
> Thresholds. These people are among the leading
> ecosystem theorists and researchers in the world.)
>
> Do juggernauts ever have second thoughts?
>
> JAY.
>
>
> At 11:15 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
>
>
> >WWF’s 2006 Living Planet Report, the group’s biennial statement on
> >the state of the natural world, says that on current projections
> >humanity will be using two planets’ worth of natural resources by
> >2050 — if those resources have not run out by then. It also confirms
> >the trend of biodiversity loss seen in previous Living Planet
> reports.>
> >Read the full report here:
> >
> >http://www.panda.org/index.cfm?uNewsID=83520
> >
> >There is a ranking of countries' contribution to disaster there.
> >Guess whom are topping the list.
> >
> >David Preiss, Ph.D.
> >Profesor Auxiliar / Assistant Professor
> >
> >Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
> >Escuela de Psicología
> >Av Vicuña Mackenna 4860
> >Macul, Santiago
> >Chile
> >
> >Fono: 3544605
> >Fax: 3544844
> >e-mail: davidpreiss@uc.cl
> >web personal: http://web.mac.com/ddpreiss/
> >web institucional: http://www.uc.cl/psicologia
> >
> >
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