Earth: Have we reached an environmental tipping point?
Found on BBC News on Saturday, 16 June 2012
We are now living in the Anthropocene: humans are the main driver of planetary change. We're pushing global temperatures, land and water use beyond anything our species has experienced before. We’re polluting the biosphere, acidifying the oceans, and reducing biodiversity.
Perhaps most worryingly of all, 22 scientists warned last week we are approaching a planetary tipping point, beyond which environmental changes will be rapid and unpredictable.
As long as financial benefits will make it interesting to ruin the planet, people will do so. Now blaming the big companies is just an excuse, because it is John and Jane who only want to pay the abolute minimum for things like food and clothes which is mainly achieved by abusing nature and third world workers.