Earth May Reach Tipping Point

A group of scientists from around the world who are part of The Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology (BiGCB) is warning that an ever-growing population and widespread destruction of natural ecosystems may be driving Earth toward a planet-wide tipping point, an irreversible change in the biosphere with unpredictable consequences. Anthony Barnosky, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the lead author of a review paper about this issue in the journal Nature.
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Video by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations

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[1noen1]

"Ultimately these Eco-Nazi's are hell bent on Depopulating Planet Earth" --- Well if it gets rid of fucking MORONS like you then I'm all for it.

[TheFallibleFiend]

Careful collection of data and cogent logic are insignificant compared to the denialists' chants of "NUHH UHHH!" 

[klnine]

this guy is dangerous !

[lynn meyer]

Nothing to worry about, blessed are those who's names are written in The Lamb's Book of Life, the government is on Jesus'/Messiah's shoulders. If you have received the revelation from God Almighty that Jesus/Messiah is God Almighty you are home free, death has no sting and the grave has no victory, the greatest battle ever fought is in the mind, you have won ('reborn') when you have past through this black hole. LIFE is: LOVE JOY PEACE LONGSUFFERING GENTLENESS GOODNESS FAITH MEEKNESS TEMPERANCE.

[4GEN3RATIONS2COME]

thank you for sharing this, Doreen- we agree (=

[Doreen Agostino]

Above all the negativity is an opportunity to break-through. The life preserver to pull us up and out of a plethora of perilous situations globally is the Outer Space Security and Development Treaty 2012. The Treaty itself can't save us, only our willingness to cooperate, preserve life, end all war, and transform the war industry into new space age industries ‘through’ the Treaty can neutralize negativity and set us free. Visit h t t p : / / p e a c e i n s p a c e . c o m

[tropicbum62]

research/ data??? who needs that? just open your eyes and get open to truth and get out of the denial mode and a cave man could figure out that something is seriously wrong and any fool that looks at a city like new york can sense that god did not plan for that cancerous growth on his planet/ 7 billion people? we are not even intelligent enough to cut back on having babies/ we do not need more data we need a brain

[tropicbum62]

i hope i am around when all the people out there that keep saying climate change is a hoax and that people warning us are alarmists and quacks/ i seriously hope i can be there when the food runs out and they are unable to find it in the super market and country fried/ yes people please wear t shits identifying yourself as a skeptic about our foot print on planet earth the past 100 years/ and keep saying it was not us/ it was a natural cycle/ well you will still be damn hungry

[ehypersonic]

we have to build a Resource Based Economyn

[MrElliott2]

When this happens, and sadly I think it will, I hope the right-wing wing-nuts are still in power, so we know exactly who spead the denial, told us we didn't need to change and lied to us so that some people could get rich.

If we don't start making some hard choices now, involving regulation and cutting back we are going to be in trouble. Just try changing the climate in your aquarium a little each week and then see what happens if you don't think it can happen.

[TheFallibleFiend]

Repeating false statement from the denialist echo chamber is not research.