Posted on 05/24/2014 8:51:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Studies warning of an Antarctic ice sheet collapse. A wildfire season that could shatter records. Shellfish eaten away by oceans turned more acidic due to greenhouse gases. U.N. and U.S. reports stating that climate change is advancing more quickly.
Everyone gets down about their work from time to time, but for environmentalists, they can sometimes quite literally be dealing with the end of the world as we know it.
“It’s hard to stay perky when scientists conclude that tragedy, such as the loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is inevitable,” says Denis Hayes, a veteran activist who co-founded Earth Day in 1970.
“The scale of the mess we’re in, environmentally, is enough to push anyone to the edge of their sanity,” adds Dougald Hine, co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project, a group of activists fully expecting ecological, and social, collapse across the planet.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Keystone fight unites unlikely bedfellows
The Problems With Fracking (And The Benefits)
Global Warming on Free Republic
NBC forgot to throw in Paul Ehrlich’s newest claim - that we’re going to have to eat each other’s dead bodies to survive because of global warming.
How does Paul Ehrlich stay happy? Is he inventing new condiments that go with ‘human’? Come on NBC, don’t go half way with your insanity - cover ‘em all...
Buzz Nightmare: “To insanity and beyond!”
O how do our guardians ever bear such burdens?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/26/sponsors-of-pentagons-alarm-raising-climate-study-/
Retired officers poised to profit after Pentagon’s alarmist climate change report....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.