Posted May 21st, 2009 by mark
The world needs to become more useless. It needs to cut down on consumption of the planet's resources and quickly if we are to have any chance of leaving it in a livable state for our children and their children, one that has enough food and water for them, that isn't unbearably hot or in a constant state of war as desperate people fight for scarce resources.
This used to be a doomsday scenario but it's starting to look frightening likely. As the population creeps up from 6.77 billion now to nine billion by 2040 and the average temperature rises somewhere 2.0 and 11.6 degrees Farenheit before the end of the century (IPCC projections), sea levels will rise, millions of people will get displaced and whatever natural resources are left by that time will be fought over by governments and warlords. The wars in Sudan and Darfur as primarily the result of people trying to grab or hold onto land that can produce food and water.
