Experts for Global Sustainability Reform

Neil deGrasse Tyson calls it long overdue. I say it's just in time. They have been saying it for about 50 years though. It seems politics works on a five year cycle and doesn't care about big pictures.

Remember the Kyoto Protocol? This will amount to lots of talk and no progress, at least in the USA.

Politicians will never plan longer than the next election so they continually pass environmental standards and regulations that take place in the distant future, and then when no one is looking those regulations get weakened/replaced/defunded/removed in an addendum to a miscellaneous supplemental budget or farm bill somewhere on page 503 at midnight on a Friday before a holiday weekend at the end of a special session....and the only person who notices it is Dennis Kucinich, and he is ignored and outvoted as usual.

This is nothing more than a circle jerk rhetoric bureaucratic money grab. You might as well just drive down the highway and throw money out the window. There are so many huge corporations buying off world governments (especially Republicans), and controlling our media just so they can keep polluting, shit will have to get REALLY bad before we actually do something. By then it might be too late.

People say that a world government is a good thing, as long as it doesn't get corrupted (which is the hard part). But a world government of banksters, corporations and pseudo-scientific henchmen will be impossible to corrupt. You think you get such great service from Congress now, just wait til that mess goes global.

Problem is people aren't gonna want to change because they are thriving off the current system, its no use arguing over the little petty shit. For change to happen, its going to get really bad or someone will press the reset button. There is nothing a movement can really do. All everyone can do is just let it happen and Jam their fingers in the faces of the people who are fucking up.

If we don't change our ways the world is going to be a very different place in the not so distant future.

There is currently a mass extinction event on par with the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. amphibians, fish and birds in particular are getting hammered for a variety of reasons. Regardless of whether or not the climate is warming up (doesn't really matter that much to be honest), there is no question that glaciers are rapidly declining around the world. This will probably be a catastrophe for some areas, particularly in SE Asia where billions of people rely on glacier fed waterways. this will be felt in america too. The Colorado river has been declining for a long time, which is pretty bad news if you life in the SW US.

Industry and commercial agriculture are turning rivers and bays around the world into ecological dead zones (via Eutrophication) or poisoning the entire food chain (including humans) with bioaccumulators like pcbs. the Chesapeake and Peuget sound are both prime examples.

Forget global warming, there are a million other reasons why we need to change our ways.