Fact That Needs Solution: 'We're Destroying Life on Earth'

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UN Conference Confronts Dramatic Loss Of Biodiversity

by Antoine Blua

Delegates from 193 nations have opened a UN meeting in Japan to discuss how to address Earth's dramatic loss of animal and plant species.


The Panay monitor lizard is listed as 'endangered' because both it is both hunted by man and its habitat, in forestland on Panay Island in the Phillipines, is declining. Biologists warn that species are disappearing at up to 1,000 times the natural rate of wildlife loss. More than one-fifth of the world's plant species and terrestrial vertebrates are threatened with extinction.(AP / IUCN / Tim Laman)

The two-week Nagoya conference brings together parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

At its opening, Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Program, told delegates the meeting is "part of the world's efforts to address a very simple fact -- we are destroying life on Earth."

A key task facing the 8,000 delegates is to hammer out a set of strategic goals to prevent the further loss of species over the next 10 years.

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http://www.rferl.org/content/UN_Conference_Confronts_Dramatic_Loss_Of_Biodiversity/2193667.html

There is only one possible solution to this all-encompassing planetary crisis, and that is the euthanasia of capitalism, replacing it with a new economy geared to sustainable human development, ecological plenitude, and the cultivation of genuine human community. The sooner we begin to construct this qualitatively new system through our mass struggles, the better the long-term prospects for humanity and the earth will be.

http://www.monthlyreview.org/101001foster-magdoff.php

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1. Recommend! n/t

[old mark]

2. Eventually, the earth will shake us all off and everything humans take pride in

will decay and crumble and pass into nothing. By the time the earth is ready to end, there will be NO sign that we ever existed at all, and no one to care.

mark