[Brett66]

There are 4 billion cases of diarrhoea causing 2.2 million deaths a year

Yeah and studies like this just push that number higher.

[B Knotts]

Guardian.

'Nuff said.

[thucydides]

This is the old familiar Litany of the doom - and - gloom environmentalist left, every point of which has been demolished in Lomborg's "The Sceptical Environmentalist" (as well as many times before).

[w1andsodidwe]

The destruction of 70% of the natural world in 30 years, mass extinction of species, and the collapse of human society in many countries is forecast in a bleak report by 1,100 scientists published yesterday.

So I guess the environmental movement has been a failure.

This time period coincides with the rise of radical environmentalism. It looks as though they are making things worse.

Is it possible that nature works best when humans don't try and manipulate it?

[goodnesswins]

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling."

[Fedupwithit]

The destruction of 70% of the natural world in 30 years, mass extinction of species, and the collapse of human society in many countries...

....dogs and cats living together...MASS HYSTERIA!! : )

[El Sordo]

BS.

This kind of disaster will only come about if we abandon free markets and put let the collectivists run the show.

Angry, so angry....

[HEY4QDEMS]

"with 95% of people in the Middle East with severe problems "

How exactly, is this bad news.

[denydenydeny]

The open Communist agenda of the Green movement becomes ever clearer.

They're not even using code words anymore.

[End Times Sentinel]

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

Ø 95% of people in the Middle East with severe problems and 65% in the rest of Asia and the Pacific.

Ø …security considerations dominate with fear of terror and mass immigration into rich areas.

Ø …in Iraq, because of bad irrigation practices, 30% of arable land has been abandoned because of salt contamination.

Ø In Latin America and the Caribbean, home of 25% of the world's forest cover and 178 regions of special biodiversity, the situation is already critical in 31 of them.

Finally, someone has the courage to stand up and say what’s been obvious to me for years- The dusky hued, third world types are ruining the planet!

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[sphinx]

I, too, used to think third world overpopulation was a problem. However, I now understand that -- thanks to the libertarian-Democrat alliance -- the surplus six billion will all simply come here, and we early arrivers will mostly all get rich off low wage immigrant labor. So what's to worry?

[Junior]

When was the last time one of these forecasts was accurate?

[TRY ONE]

There are 4 billion cases of diarrhea causing 2.2 million deaths a year....

But scientists have now determined that diarrhea is hereditary.....yep, they're finding it in the jeans of kids all across the land....

[ShadowAce]

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

[nravoter]

Two thirds of the population, about 4 billion people, live on less than $2 a day

Wow! That beats the hell out of those Europe on $10 a Day books!

[AmusedBystander]

So what!

There is NOTHING that humans can do to the Earth that will destroy the Earth. Mankind may or may not wipe itself out, or an asteroid can start the next cycle of animal/plant domination, but the planet will live out its natural life either way.

[shadowman99]

AAAHHHH!!!! AAHH!!! AHHH!!! AHHH!!! AAAAHHH!!!!! AAHH!!!!

[Mr. Peabody]

Emissions of most air pollutants in Europe have declined since the early 80s

Notice how it excludes environmental progress taking place in the United States for decades: reforestation, cleaner water and air, etc.

[SunStar]

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!

GLOBAL COOLING WILL DESTROY THE EARTH BY 1995!!!

[Wolfie]

Same ol' crap, they just keep tacking 20 or 30 years on to the gloom and doom year. We were supposed be living in an ice age by now, according to the Chicken Littles of the 1970's.