Karl Jaeger
Are We Wise Enough to Survive?
24 Feb 2009
This warning included a majority of the Nobel laureates in the sciences. Sixty nine nations from all parts of Earth were represented, including each of the 12 most populous nations and 19 of the largest economic powers.
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking"
~ Alfred Korzybski
They said "human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about."
View the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/warning.html
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