Heretic
Posts: 2340
 | | Subject: This can't be good. 9/16/2009, 7:46 am | |
| Via Science: | Quote: | Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions
Energy, food, and water crises; climate disruption; declining fisheries; increasing ocean acidification; emerging diseases; and increasing antibiotic resistance are examples of serious, intertwined global-scale challenges spawned by the accelerating scale of human activity. They are outpacing the development of institutions to deal with them and their many interactive effects. |
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Scorpion
Posts: 1367
| | Subject: Re: This can't be good. 9/16/2009, 6:20 pm | |
| | Heretic wrote: | Via Science:
| Quote: | Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions
Energy, food, and water crises; climate disruption; declining fisheries; increasing ocean acidification; emerging diseases; and increasing antibiotic resistance are examples of serious, intertwined global-scale challenges spawned by the accelerating scale of human activity. They are outpacing the development of institutions to deal with them and their many interactive effects. |
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No, you're right. This sounds pretty grim. Sure wish that I could get into the site to find out more about the timeline of all of this... |
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