As if we needed more proof...
A chilling new report, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, suggests that human activity is causing irreparable harm to the planet. As a BBC News article notes,
More land was converted to agriculture since 1945 than in the 18th and 19th Centuries combined. More than half of all the synthetic nitrogen fertilisers - first made in 1913 - ever used on the planet were deployed after 1985.Scary stuff. When will we start taking responsibility for the damage we're causing?The MA authors say the pressure for resources has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth, with some 10-30% of the mammal, bird and amphibian species currently threatened with extinction.
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Don't you know, it's all irrelevant, because the rapture is coming, which means anything we don't use is wasted.
And people try to say that secular and religous beliefs are orthagonal...what could they possibly be talking about.
However, to be fair, animals and plants have been going extinct far before human influence added to the count.
Posted by: Jake | April 4, 2005 11:33 AM