More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue 'warning to humanity': There needs to be change in order to save Earth

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SOURCE: CBC NEWS

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/15000-scientists-warning-to-humanity-1.4395767

by Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News


More than 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth.

It comes 25 years after the first notice in 1992 when a mere 1,500 scientists issued a similar warning.

This new cautioning — which gained popularity on Twitter with #ScientistsWarningToHumanity — garnered more than 15,000 signatures.

William Ripple of Oregon State University's College of Forestry, who started the campaign, said that he came across the 1992 warning last February, and noticed that this year happened to mark the 25th anniversary.

Together with his graduate student, Christopher Wolf, he decided to revisit the concerns raised then, and collect global data for different variables to show trends over the past 25 years.

Ripple found:

A decline in freshwater availability.
Unsustainable marine fisheries.
Ocean dead zones.
Forest losses.
Dwindling biodiversity.
Climate change.
Population growth.
There was one positive outcome, however: a rapid decline in ozone depletion.

"The trends are alarming, and they speak for themselves," Ripple said, though he notes the improvement in the ozone hole illustrates that humanity can make change when needed.

After writing the viewpoint article, which was accepted for publication in the journal BioScience, he decided to see if he could once again collect signatures.

"I'd never tried that before, so in July I sent [the article] to 40 colleagues of mine, and by the next day, 600 scientists had signed it," he told CBC News.

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It's worth noting that the populations of African nations are still "exploding" while most populations on the other continents have become far more stable.

Yet as both a continent and individual nations, the countries of Africa are unable to solve such burgeoning population growth rates on their own, nor are they able to provide for the ever-increasing number of mouths there are to feed.

We of The West must steel ourselves to force Africans to deal with this on their own.
We must also take action to confine Africans to Africa.

If we don't do these things, they are destined to overwhelm us as some point in the future.
Look at what's happening to Western Europe today:
An invasion "from the south"...

For further reading:
Global Demographics and White Survival: What Is to Be Done? An Overview:
http://tinyurl.com/y8thgx5s