Reblogged from Serendipity:
I haven’t read the official report, but I’ve read a lot of summaries and I wasn’t at all surprised by any of it. Twelve years left and then we can’t “save the earth.”
I consider it highly unlikely we’ll make that deadline.
I was one of the enthusiastic founders of the original Earth Day. Over the years, as we have cleaned up a lot of the inland waterways — the Blackstone and Hudson Rivers are two notable successes — and cleaned up the air around New York and on the west coast — I knew we weren’t making progress fast enough, but at least I could believe we were trying to head in the right direction.
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Thank you! Last night on Saturday Night Live, they did their version of the “news.” So their anchor sits there and says “Hey, you know? We heard of the upcoming end of the world. Shouldn’t we all be terrified running around, trying to make things right? What are you doing? Absolutely nothing. That’s what I’m doing. Nothing. Because we believe it, but it’s not here yet, so why worry?”
That’s how it all goes down. No one does anything and it just happens. It may take 50 or 100 years. Maybe the alien invasion will occur before then. After all, ANYTHING can happen, right?
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Yep. We were given all the information in school… nothing happened….
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