Community | April 06, 2008 | 40 comments

Ted Turner: global warming could lead to cannibalism, really?

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In a PBS interview CNN founder Ted Turner says if global warming continues people will cut out the middlemen and start eating each other to survive.

"If steps aren't taken to stem global warming, "We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow," Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with PBS's Charlie Rose that aired Tuesday.

"Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals," said Turner, 69. "Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable."
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40 comments // Ted Turner: global warming could lead to cannibalism, really?

  • rosyjane
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      rosyjane  
    • Global warming is just a kind of terrorism that many politicians used to control the world specially here in the Philippines....

      Acid Rain is one of the tremendous side effect of that political battle in obtaining power to control many companies...

      On the other hand..... global warming have cure if only the chemists and the administration inside the Coal-fired Power plant and those who have factories will follow the true environmental friendly chemicals in combustion of chemicals and fuels...

    • 4 years ago
  • donny_dark_o
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      donny_dark_o  
    • i'm confused.. is this the same Ted Turner that bought the Atlanta Braves, started CNN, and married Jane Fonda? It looks like it all is finally starting to go to his head. but hey, who can blame him?

    • 4 years ago
  • patsarts
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      patsarts  
    • "Soylent' gives a whole new meaning to tofu - I knew I didn't trust that stuff for a reason.

      Eat less red meat and more beans - the planet will be cleaner and we'll never run out of gas.

    • 4 years ago
  • justinwillemsen
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      justinwillemsen  
    • I wish I was a rich man who knew absolutely nothing of what I was talking about. Last time I heard good ol' Ted wasn't a scientist but if he decides to eat people we'll definitely have a more interesting news segment.

    • 4 years ago
  • iknew
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      iknew  
    • I love how they mark his age right after the comment. Cause old people are C-C-C-C-Crazy. I agree with the attention grabber, It's like in a debate, go extremely abstract to get someone thinking. OHH Teddy!HAHAHA

    • 4 years ago
  • mikey88
  • idealist
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      idealist  
    • well ted , the good news is that your not a middle man and when push comes ta cannibleism you can allways ea alarge sum of money to survive.... givin your alive in 40-50 years.
      thank you for adressing an important subject

    • 4 years ago
  • NotCaleb
  • rabidlemur
  • Marilynn_Murray
  • Liberal_Extinction
  • stephenthomson
  • Marilynn_Murray
  • CarolynGillis
  • Liberal_Extinction
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      Liberal_Extinction  
    • I'm pretty sure you vegen freaks are going to taste like shit but whatever, guess we'll do what we have to in order to survive. Going to need to buy LOTS of marinade.

    • 4 years ago
  • huntre
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      huntre  
    • There's something very "Pythonesque" about all this.
      It changes, "No, Kitty! This is People Food!", considerably.

    • 4 years ago
  • Marilynn_Murray
  • parisinla
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      parisinla  
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    • Odly enough i was just hearing on NPR about some of Charlton Heston's scarier roles. It seems he may have been right all those years ago!

    • 4 years ago
  • AshleyMaria
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      AshleyMaria  
    • yeah...we should probably stop reproducing while we're at it...i mean, what's the point if it's all going to hell in a matter of 100 years?

    • 4 years ago
  • Ando_SB
  • BetterWatching
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      BetterWatching  
    • Last time I checked Ted Turner was not a scientist. His opinion is just as valid as any other non-professional including myself. But since he's a billionaire we listen and give credence to his opinion.

      I say (and I'm as much an authority on the subject as him) we're going to be just fine. We have some challenges ahead; but giving in to such doomsday scenarios shows a lack of faith in the ingenuity of the human spirit.

    • 4 years ago
  • GraphicTheEnemy
  • dontipo
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      dontipo  
    • opinion; we are all animals. The idea is to eat and live for today and not tomorrow. The human race thinks therfore, we grab things easier and faster creating more destruction.

    • 4 years ago
  • benjaminV
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      benjaminV  
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    • Here's an interesting article about the survival of the human race, from Mr. Stephen Hawking himself.

      To sum up,

      "In the long term, Prof Hawking says, humans will only survive if they can leave the rock they call home and spread out into space, to transform and occupy planets around our own sun and then around other suns. Failing that, he adds, perhaps our best bet is to use genetic engineering to tinker with the human species and make us less prone to fighting war."

    • 4 years ago
  • Incredulous
  • marcozarco
  • patsarts
  • stephenthomson
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      stephenthomson  
    • I agree. By the time society has passed the point of crop failure and the disappearance of most of our livestock, anything, even cannibalism, will be fathomable. Only problem is, it will comprise such a relatively short time between the crash of civilization and our own complete extinction.

    • 4 years ago
  • Electrum
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      Electrum  
    • Actually, I agree with him. To dejavu: animals eat either crops or other animals, animals like cows and pigs and lambs and chickens [our main meat source] would die out because of the lack of crops. And the animals that eat the herbivores would die out too, leaving just just humans. Plus we'd have no animal or plant by-products [eggs, corn oil, juice, alcohol.] Some ocean life may survive, but most likely not nearly enough to feed all of the world. I don't think we'll see it in our lifetime as he proposed but if we don't start to stop global warming these could be the types of conditions later on in our kids lives.

      What else would we turn to to eat?

    • 4 years ago
  • Ayla
  • Ayla
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      Ayla  
    • And that is why I love Ted Turner.

      and you should too! because now we know what he's all about:

      eating republicans and people who like carbon emissions.

    • 4 years ago
  • 515dsm
  • twodee
  • superjake2004
  • aburk72
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      aburk72  
    • At least he's acknowledging that there's a problem. Far worse than the prospect of cannabilism in the future is the reality of ignorance today.

    • 4 years ago
  • Joydejavu17
  • ghostbar
  • katharinekov
  • uroborus8
  • woodywoodbeck
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