ABC News Asks: Are We Living In The Last days Of Our Generation?
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ABC News Asks: Are We Living In The Last Days Of Our Generation?*
Scientists From Around the Globe Join ABC News in a Forum on will we
survive the Century?
By SARAH NAMIAS
June 12, 2008—
Are we living in the last days of our generation?? Is it possible that
all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from
ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse?
According to many of the world's top scientists, the answer is yes,
unless we take action now.
This September, in Earth 2100, a dramatic ABC News 2-hour broadcast, the
greatest minds across the globe will join together in a countdown to the
year 2100 to tell us what we must do to survive the next century & And
what may happen if we don't.
The time to act is now, says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific
Institute.
"The 21st century is going to be the century which determine[s] whether
we live or die as a sustainable species," Gleick said. "As populations
grow, as our use of resources grows, I think we get closer and closer to
that edge."
Experts say that extreme changes in climate, combined with dwindling
resources, famine, war and disease have the potential to create a
post-apocalyptic world in less than a hundred years. Harvard University
and Woods Hole climatologist John Holdrens says we cannot continue going
down the same path.
"If we continue on business as usual, we are going to see more floods,
more droughts, more heat waves, more wildfires, more ice melting, faster
sea level rise," Holdren said.
"We really have less than a decade to start getting this right. If we're
still dragging our feet in 2015 I think it really becomes at that point
almost impossible for the world to avert a degree of climate change that
we simply will not be able to manage without intolerable cost and
consequences."
In order to avoid this chilling future, we have to first imagine it. In
an unprecedented Internet event, ABC is inviting people from around the
world to bring the future to life.
We are asking you to use your imagination to create short videos about
what it would be like to live through the next century if we stay on our
current path. Using predictions from top experts, we will brief
participants on global conditions in the years 2015, 2050, 2070 and 2100
-- and we want you to describe the dangers that are unfolding before
your eyes.
Submitted videos will be combined with the projections of top
scientists, historians, and economists to form a powerful Web-based
narrative about the perils of our future. We will also select the most
compelling reports to form the backbone of our two-hour primetime ABC
News broadcast: Earth 2100, airing this fall.
*Related Link:*
On The Edge Of Eternity - Revealing the Earth's Final Generation
http://www3.telus.net/thegoodnews/finalgeneration.htm