A Declaration of Sustainability

[netninja1]

The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.5 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their wants and needs is stripping the earth of its biotic capacity to produce life; a climactic bust of consumption by a single species is overwhelming the skies, earth, waters, and fauna. As Lester Brown

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[james_m_83]

good post.

This company is trying.

[netninja1]

A hundred years ago, even fifty years ago, it did not seem urgent that we understand the relationship between business and a healthy environment, because natural resources seemed unlimited. But we now know that we have decimated ninety-seven percent of the ancient forests in North America; every day our farmers and ranchers draw out 20 billion more gallons of water from the ground than are replaced by rainfall; the Oglala Aquifer, an underwater river beneath the Great Plains larger than any body of fresh water on earth, will dry up in the twenty to thirty years at present rates of extraction; globally we lose 25 billion tons of fertile topsoil every year, the equivalent of all the wheat fields on Australia. These critical losses are occurring while the world population is increasing at the rate of 90 million people per year. Given current corporate practices, not one wildlife reserve, wilderness, or indigenous culture will survive the global market economy. We know that every natural system on the planet is disintegrating. The land,

[chiltongirl]

Firstly Id like o say that I’m sorry for all the spelling and grammar errors that will be in this. My spell check isn’t working

[netninja1]

What he said is factually incorrect. Tell him he should not talk about things he does not understand, and that, if he ever does gain an interest in the facts, simply reading the massive amout of research done on the subject will clear up whatever illusions he may have.

I was Chiltongirl

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