Environmental Rules to Live by

摘要

The continuing assault by humans on the Earth's biosphere represents the most serious form of terrorism yet to have been inflicted by any one species on this planet. It has already led to the extinction of thousands of innocent species, an estimated 20,000 species per year, and is expected to cause the extinction of at least one-quarter of all species on Earth within the next 25 years. Biosphere terrorism is directly due to the 6.5 billion humans now on Earth who are bent on their own survival and reproduction. In the process, they are using and wasting non-renewable resources while polluting the environment shamefully. The ultimate consequence is and will increasingly continue to be suffering, despair and death of people - by the billions. Human population growth and global climate change present far more serious and important challenges than terrorism or trade disputes. The latter, but not the former issues, are items of focus by many shortsighted governments. How is it that our govern- ments feel justified in devoting hundreds of billions of dollars to combat national terrorism while spending NOTHING on biosphere terrorism? What's worse, inconsequential issues such as legalizing the use of certain drugs (like marijuana), same sex marriage and immigration get certain people all riled up when the benefits of the very topics they oppose outweigh the detriments ten fold.