Re: State of the World

[Nick Palmer]

Terry Blanton wrote <<They say the glass is only 1/3 full:>>   This is the first paragraph of one of the articles he gives a link to:   <<Planet Earth stands on the cusp of disaster and people should no longer take it for granted that their children and grandchildren will survive in the environmentally degraded world of the 21st century. This is not the doom-laden talk of green activists but the considered opinion of 1,300 leading scientists from 95 countries who will today publish a detailed assessment of the state of the world at the start of the new millennium.>>   As one of the green activists who often seem to be sneered at in articles such as this, I have to say that all this "considered opinion" is now saying precisely what environmentalists have been warning about for at least 50 years. It only gives me a kind of twisted pleasure to say "TOLD YOU SO, YOU ARROGANT, IRRESPONSIBLE, VAIN, GREEDY, PATRONISING MORONS"