The way we will live in 2032...

The Guardian ^ | 23/05/2 | Paul Brown

[schu]

Or how is it different from now?

[Jzen]

Sweet. As long as I can get one of those neat hovercrafts that Anakin was using in Star Wars.

[SoDak]

This is simply the UN embracing Marxism and encouraging member countries to go along. Modern environmentalism is marxism wrapped up in a 'for the children' warm and fuzzy. Europe likes to talk about the US destroying the world's environment while being one of the worst polluters. The US has taken much more care with it's air and water quality than Europe has. Get US out of the UN.

[ambrose]

This can't be true--according to the X-Files series finale, we're gonna be invaded in 2012.

I dunno about that... but I do know there isn't going to be much left of this galaxy by the time the 31st century rolls around, according to the Enterprise Finale.

[steve-b]

More than half the world will be afflicted by water shortages, with 95% of people in the Middle East with severe problems

What's the problem? We can sell it to them: a barrel of water for a barrel of oil....

[another cricket]

There is a hidden gem in there, but noone has got to it yet.

This perhaps?

2 billion people are at risk from malaria, and 2 million die a year

Listen you dodos that is because you won't let us use DDT to get rid of the problem. These deaths are directly on your hands.

a.cricket

[Tony in Hawaii]

I liked his Hover-Harley on the desert planet. It even had extended forks.

[Interesting Times]

There is a hidden gem in there, but noone has got to it yet.

"In richer countries water and air pollution is down, species have been restored to the wild, and forests are increasing in size."

Richer countries == the greedy capitalist countries that the UN and the Guardian deplore.

The solution is right under their noses -- among the myriad benefits of capitalism is the ability to make improvements in the environment.

[cjsdoc]

Astonishing, ain't it??? Eliminate the "Market First Approach" (could the writer be a bit more vague, please?), and it is suggested that all will be sweetness and light. This despite the slight admission, lost in this sea of blather, that: "In richer countries water and air pollution is down, species have been restored to the wild, and forests are increasing in size." Mightn't these same countries be included on the list of scoundrels advancing a "Market First Approach"? The civilized Western world, and here I will place the U.S. at the fore, has managed to succeed tremendously both in terms of generating monetary wealth AND preserving (maybe even improving?) its natural environment.

[gundog]

This is the old familiar Litany of the doom - and - gloom environmentalist left.

This is all acedemic anyway, as the world was plunged into nuclear winter when Saddam set Kuwait's oil wells ablaze. Or so said Carl Sagan upon hearing that Saddam would do so.

Science with a political agenda is no longer science.

[neutrino]

So, this means that a full-scale nuclear exchange between India and the pakies is a Very Good Thing...and that anything done to prune the threat from moslems might also be a Good Thing.

I believe that the correct term for all this is: "Kewl!".

[laredo44]

The Global Environment Outlook, compiled for the UN, charts the environmental degradation of the last 30 years since the first world environment conference in Stockholm in 1972 and looks forward to how the world might look by 2032.

Not surprisingly, after expending the effort to chart the degradation of the last 30 years, these clowns make no effort to compare that to what was predicted to happen in the 30 years following 1972. Just a guess, but do you suppose the first predictions were completely off the mark. Do you think these weenie-greenies have figured out that their 2002 predictions would be laughed laughed off the planet if they admitted what was predicted 30 years ago. Bet they predicted gloom and doom for the U.S. in 1972, and not, "In richer countries water and air pollution is down, species have been restored to the wild, and forests are increasing in size."

[G.Mason]

Reading 100% of this post made me 10% sleepy, 25% hungry, 42 1/2% guilty.

Oh...yes and 22 1/2% elated that, as bad as we may be here in the U.S.A., we fled Britain.

[G.Mason]

"In 2032, I'll be 68 years old, and looking forward to retiring and collecting my Social Security benefits in 20 years."

You don't wan't to count on that one!

[Wolfie]

Perhaps I need to diagram the joke:

In 2032, I'll be 68, waiting to collect in 20 years, meaning FROM that point, ie: collection at age 88, which is probably what SS "retirement" age will be if all goes as before.

[chilepepper]

Typical leftist crap. Pollution and extinction everywhere, except in the ADVANCED, DEMOCRATIC CAPITALIST COUNTRIES. So instead of having the third world immediately pick up the habits of the advanced democratic capitalist countries, the 'experts' recipe for salvation: have the third world countries go for TOTALITARIAN SOCIALISM.

If I was cynical (hey, come to think of it, I AM CYNICAL) I'd say this is a guaranteed recipe for failure so the third world countries won't challenge the comfortable situation of the leftist bureaucrats and intelletuals! Imagine if these clowns in academe had to worry about their jobs going to graduates from Brazil or Chile or Morocco who don't buy into the stupid leftist ideology which permeates most Universities...

[G.Mason]

"Perhaps I need to diagram the joke:........"

OUCH!!...My error.

And me thinking I was so good at reading and understanding.

Well, I'm climbing back up the ladder of perfection. ;)

[Pagey]

The bad news · In 30 years 70% of the Earth's surface will be suffering severe impacts of man's activities, destroying the natural world with roads, mining and cities · 1,183 species of birds, around 12% of the world's total, and 1,130 species of mammals, about a quarter, are threatened with extinction · One third of the world's fish stocks are depleted or overexploited · Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could double by 2050. The number of people affected by weather related disasters has risen from 147 million a year to 211 million in 10 years

Can't you just hear what's coming next?"And it all the USA's Fault",you know that's coming.LOL

[Wolfie]

On the contrary, the fault was mine. Fuzzy comedy does no good for anybody.