we’ll need 27 planet Earths by 2050,

Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, and other species that provide Earth’s life support system increased tenfold, it would not be enough without dealing with the big issues of the 21st century: population, overconsumption and inefficient resource use.

Without dealing with those big issues, humanity will need 27 planet Earths by 2050, a new study estimates.

The world population, currently at seven billion, is well beyond Earth’s ability to sustain. By 2050, with a projected population of 10 billion people and without a change in consumption patterns, the cumulative use of natural resources will amount to the productivity of up to 27 planet Earths, the study found.

Sustaining the current seven billion people on the planet requires a major shift in resource use. At present, the average U.S. citizen’s ecological footprint is about 10 hectares, while a Haitian’s is less than one. The planet could sustain us if everyone’s footprint averaged two ha, Mora said.

Another of the authors, Peter Sale from the Canadian Institute for Water, Health and the Environment, put it like this:
"We are just taking too much - managing forests in such as way as they degrade, same with coastal waters, and we have to stop doing this as a species.
"I don't have a solution - I have struggled for some time trying to think what is the way to get people to realise how important this is - but if we don't find it soon, the future is a very grim one.
"We're talking about losing 50% of species in the next half century - that's faster than any previous mass extinction event - and anybody who thinks we can go through a mass extinction and be perfectly fine is just deluding themselves."

THE SOLUTION To Over Consumption (some notes)

Assuming that a World anti capitalist revolution is not going to happen right now… more’s the pity… It’s high time that radical environmental groups began to think REAL.

One step that could be taken is to stop using fossil fuels. A huge but not impossible task. Renewable energy is approaching the level where it’s ‘cheaper’ than using fossil fuels. A safer, CO2-free non polluting fuel for vehicles has always existed SEE HERE https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/

But the root of the problem is the mad greed and superconsumption that is the basis of the universal capitalist system.

A common sense moral approach would be for example to sabotage a coal plant, an arms or car factory etc. This is already happening, on a very small scale. Check it out HERE, https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/prison Such largely symbolic publicity actions maybe only benefits the competition and put people out of work, but if many thousands of people were to start doing it …

Blogging to the consciences of middle class youth is all fine and good, but Direct Action on a massive scale is now needed.

Another sane and moderate idea (since their actions are destroying the planet) would be to physically attack investors and directors in the worst Corporations. Let them retreat already to the luxury bunkers they are urgently preparing. However the ‘ruling class’ have all the security forces on the planet just itching to pounce on anyone who ‘gets real’ in this way, and every media outlet ready to scream ‘terrorist’ for the next 20 years. Also the question of guilt is very relative, few really understand what they are doing, and all of us know we are participating in trashing the Earth…. cont/

Runaway Ice Melt NOW in Arctic

Here in Spain we’re having a cool summer. The Atlantic has been blocked by high pressure, giving us north winds. But in the Arctic temperature are up to 10 degrees C above normal, and ice melting may set a new all time record, causing unexpected and possible ‘runaway’ climate events worldwide.. Far from being a wakeup call, climate talks are ‘dead in the water’, and the arctic ice melt has sparked an obscene capitalist power struggle to exploit natural resources in this fragile wilderness.

tundrafire11-620x250 — After a 10,000-year absence, massive wildfires have returned to the Arctic tundra

‘Arctic sea ice extent declined rapidly through the first two weeks of July, at a rate averaging nearly 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) per day. Ice extent is now tracking below the year 2007, which saw the record minimum September extent.” So far this summer, Arctic sea ice has been melting at a record pace. Satellite data, which go back to 1979, show that ice extent is currently lower than it was at the same time in 2007, the year that went on to shatter all previous records for low ice extent in September, the end of the melt season. Global Warming is both a cause and an effect of the ice melt- Runaway Climate Change is caused by ‘Feedback’ or ‘Loop’ effects.. Less ice means heat is absorbed instead of reflected melting more ice which… Melting permafrost releases methane which raises temperature which melts more permafrost which…… Unheard of tundra fires release methane and blacken earth raising temperature , melting permafrost and causing more fires…. ETCETCETC We live in a fragile skin of breathable gas in an immense vacuum. The imminent danger is of uncontrollable climate change which could make the whole planet uninhabitable, like all others in our Solar System. The only solution is to immediately begin transition to an economy without CO2 releases.. This is perfectly possible. See other posts on NH3 fuel,.. cheaper, safer and CO2 -Free! https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/

Climate talks ‘Dead in the Water’

“This process is dead in the water,” said Yvo de Boer, the former head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat who stepped down last year to work at KPMG, a consultancy and auditing firm.

“It’s not going anywhere,” he said during the June 6-17 talks in Bonn among negotiators trying to avert more heatwaves, floods, droughts and rising sea levels.

Disputes between rich and poor on sharing curbs in greenhouse gases mean gridlock over the Kyoto Protocol, the existing U.N. plan which obliges about 40 industrialized nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions until 2012.

Article continues: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/19/us-climate-idUSTRE75G2TC20110619

Runaway Ice Melt NOW in Arctic

SEE DETAILS OF CO2-FREE fuel HERE https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/green-gas-still-ignored-in-rush-for-profits/

See all NH3 posts HEREhttps://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/

nudismo: 500E fine for taking off T Shirt

Barcelona has followed other Spanish cities in banning nudism, or even ‘partial nudism’.. ie.. you can be fined up to 500 euros ($700) for Taking off your t shirt.. boys included. The ‘socialist’ party also supported the new law, which then proved impossible to enforce during the mass Take The Streets demos, camps and street assemblies. While the 15M movement demands revolution the far right corrupt Partido Popular is sweeping towards power.

‘Barcelona era la única ciudad española donde no estaba prohibido pasearse desnudo por las calles. Estaba planificado que la decision de si se aprueba o no la ordenanza que lo prohíbe, e incluso sanciona y multa a quienes no la respeten, se tomase en marzo de 2011, pero aún no se tienen noticias al respecto.’

Ir desnudo o semi desnudo (con el torso desnudo o en bañador) se sancionará con multas de entre 300 y 500 euros (el más alto se reserva para los reincidentes). Aunque el texto establece, que antes de multar, la guardia urbana avisará.

La nueva ordenanza municipal que persigue el nudismo y el seminudismo -concepto cuyos límites parecen vascular dentro de la subjetividad de la policía- ya ha generado las dos primeras multas Las sanciones, que oscilan entre los 120 y los 500 euros, se han impuesto en dos distritos cercanos a las playas

Tar Sands: stop this Carbon Bomb

Join us this summer.

Posted on July 13, 2011 by admin

From August 20th – September 3rd we’re planning a peaceful protest in Washington DC to defuse the largest carbon bomb in North America.

With people power and time-tested tactics of civil disobedience – join thousands of people from across the continent in a wave of sustained sit-ins. Together we’ll amplify our voices and escalate the movement and stop the Keystone XL pipeline to the Canadian tar sands

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Syria: demos reach capital. 2000+ dead

Protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad swept into the capital Damascus on Friday for the first time since a growing wave of pro-democracy unrest began to put pressure on his 11-year rule. Thousands of protesters marched elsewhere across the country despite a fierce crackdown and some political concessions announced by Assad in an attempt to quell spreading unrest.

Desde el comienzo de las movilizaciones, según los datos que aporta la oposición, la cifra de víctimas mortales supera los 2000. Entre ellos más de 95 niños, el más pequeño de tan sólo 6 meses que recibió un disparo en la cabeza acabando con su vida.

Damascus: Syrian security forces shot dead at least 25 people while dispersing tens of thousands of demonstrators in the central city of Hama today, activists said, as anti-regime protests spread to Damascus. Activists in the city told AFP by telephone in Nicosia that dozens of other people were wounded. Security forces unleashed “intense gunfire” against a crowd of more than 50,000 people in Hama, according to Rami Abdel Rahman who heads the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Multitudinaria manifestación en Hama(Siria)

La oposición siria ha vuelto este viernes a salir a las calles del país bajo el lema ” VUESTRO SILENCIO NOS MATA” refiriéndose al silencio de la comunidad internacional, destacando los países árabes.

Igualmente, y siempre según cifras de la oposición, ya se han registrado más de 30.000 desaparecidos y 20.000 detenidos que están siendo torturados constantemente en las cárceles del régimen.

El gobierno, por su parte, acusa a los opositores de estar financiados por las potencias imperialistas e Israel, y responsabiliza a grupos paramilitares de oposición de ser los responsables de sembrar el caos en el país, y de atentar contra las fuerzas del orden y la población civil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPXG6X-D7Yc&feature=channel_video_title

Malaysia:massive multicultural movement

police-at-bersih-rally-300x224 — criminal police tear gas Bersih rally

KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 27, 2011 (IPS) – Following a major rally involving tens of thousands of protesters calling for electoral reforms in Malaysia, someone set up a Facebook page calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down. Within ten days, the number of people who said they “like” the page crossed 200,000.

The rally and the subsequent backlash on social media are a sign of the anger that has been building up among a segment of the population that Najib may have overlooked at his peril: the urban middle class.

And crucially, the response has come from across Malaysia’s ethnic spectrum.

Malaysia is a multiracial country with a relatively young population. Around 70 percent of Malaysians live in urban centres, with rapidly improving Internet connections.

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On July 9, police fired tear gas and hosed down tens of thousands of Bersih supporters who took to the streets calling on the government to reform the election processes. A total of 1,667 people were arrested, said to be the largest haul of protesters in one single day in the history of the country.
Bersih estimated the turnout to be 50,000 and condemned police heavy-handedness which led to severe injuries, and a loss of life.

There have also been numerous photographs and videos surfacing online of instances of police beating protesters before arresting them. In one controversial case, the police are also alleged to have fired tear gas into the compound of a maternity hospital.

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Political analysts say Najib’s handling of the demonstration showed he is out of step with the sentiment of many Malaysians, in particular, a growing population of young, internet-savvy people who are less afraid to express themselves than their forebears.

“In the 21st century everybody has a mind and wants to express themselves. People were saying we are the boss, we elected you. But this was lost on the government,” says Jahabar Sadiq, chief executive officer of the news portal ‘Malaysian Insider’.

“Peter”, who doesn’t want to be identified by his full name, says he was inspired by video and photos of a frail, elderly lady at the rally who was defiant in the face of tear gas and water cannon. So he set up the Facebook page called Aunty Bersih.