More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue 'warning to humanity'

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Nicole Mortillaro · Senior Writer, Science and Technology · at CBC News

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

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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.



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[Achilleaze]

1. Still Republicans persist in their dangerous lies

To the American people. Deplorable. Stupid, Greedy, and deplorable.

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2. So many farmers in India committed suicide this summer. That will only increase

across the hottest places in the planet so desperate to be somewhere else farmers will be. Everyone else will be climate refugees. So horrid. And People like the Koch brothers sit on billions and decide the fate of others.

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3. Deciding other's fates

Billions per se are not a problem, look at the good which can be done by billionaires' charity. But if you are citing billionaires with partisan agendas, you need to include folks like Soros, Bloomberg, etc. Or are billions only evil only when you disagree with the people who have them?

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4. When masses of people will die because of their privaledge i disagree.

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Left alone, humanity would try and fight climate change. We are on the whole goid eggs.