The final countdown: 100 months to save the world

Smoke em if you got em... Good Luck Folks

Global environmental catastrophe of one sort or another is already unstoppable. But hey not to worry, we will survive. It will just be a case of humanity, but not as we know it.

Personally, holding a belief in reincarnation, I would like to make the following appeal to all polluting industrialists - "stop screwing up my future lives!"

Nebulous. Is that like something to do with the stars? Ahh, that's my new word of the day.

I'm a terrible planet-saver. I recycle only when I remember, I like working on pieces of paper so I print stuff out, I like travelling so don't feel bad about flights, and I keep animals which emit all kinds of nasty methane. But I do walk, or bus, or train everywhere, as I don't have (or need) a car. Though I do secretly want one.

What is the single most important thing we could all do to reduce our impact on the environment? Just one thing, the biggest one?

For a nation full of procrastinators, perhaps a deadline like this will motivate the American people to take action... or it could be dismissed or ignored like all the other warnings we've received in recent years... I guess we'll know in 100 months... fingers crossed!

These environmentalists are some times exaggerating facts to create panis to achieve something they themselves are unaware of.

I am not arguing against being environmental friendly. All I am asking to keep the sanity in tact. Remember the case of biofuels. These guys made the legislators around the world crazy for replacing gasoline with biofuels. The resultant legislation played a major role in increasing basic food prices to a level that now basic commodities are beyond the range of the poors in most of the world - and guess what, a stanford research has proven that using ethanol is more damaging to the environment than gasoline......

Articles like these are basically ruining the noble cause of making our planet a better place to live. It is like doctors promoting keeping your hand in boiling water for 20 hours a day, as there are bacteria in the air!!!! - while the solution is to wash your hands before eating....

thanks for the post, Jana

I wouldn't say any of this is unrightly trying to garner panic, though panic could very well be the most rational response once getting to know the science.

Eugene Kleiner said, "there is a time when panic is the appropriate response."

What I always think about when people give these exact dates is: How did they come up to that conclusion?

What if we only have 10 months left and he forgot to drop the zero?

As has been said, I don't think this sort of action is going to do anything than stir the pot. If you want to save the world, you need to educate both yourself and those around you about what is important, and what only seems to be.

At least we make it past 2012!

Why does everyone hear something like this and say... oh they are just fear mongering.

Why can't you thick skulled morons just accept the fact that we are doing serious and irreversible harm to our planet?

We need to act now to save the planet for our children and their children.

Change your habits now, before its too late! I would much rather change my lifestyle, save our environment and later find out we were wrong than pass on a polluted mess to my children.

STOP BEING SELFISH!!!

That time frame feels right to me:

We're already seeing with our own eyes a runaway environmental problem occuring:

1) Massive (mysterious?) bird die-offs

2) Massive (unexplained?) bee die-offs

3) Penguins! More die-offs.

4) Massive heat waves with record low rainfalls.

5) Coral reefs dying off in massive numbers

All of these things are happening all at once.

I don't know which is more disturbing -- people who are accused of overreacting or the people walking through a massive field of dead birds on the 98th consecutive day of 100 degree heat proclaiming that everything is fine, just fine!

"Sure it might help to recycle a little more," they say as they walk through a field of dead grass watching a massive forest fires burn out of control in the distance "But surely there is no urgency! Let's not go off and....ouch!"

Another dead bird has fallen from the sky and onto his head.

"Weird. But like I was saying everything is perfectly fine! Just fine! Just fine! Just fine!"

.... when i read this headline this huge chill just ran up and down my spine till i read it over like 5 times.... sadly these guys are prob right...... anybody kno where the nearest secure bunker is?

Thanks for the article. I think using fear might be a way to MAKE CHANGES HAPPEN. It might scare the greedy, selfish, evil, stupid and naive into hippie submission.
We should have done the environmental math 50-100 years ago,... but since we were/are more concerned with personal wealth, happiness and self-righteousness,... the changes might not be made in time. And the changes we actually do make might not be enough. It's pretty clear that the Earth doesn't want us here. The planet may not be fully healed until our epoch has ended,... but,... until then, the least we could do is clean up after ourselves and pretend we care about the future.

ENVIRONMENTALIST HYPOCRISY ABOUND

this is ridiculous. 100 months ooooohhhh scary.

I guess I might as well sell my skis and snowboard while I still can...

Well, at least we'll know when it's too late. Note to self: Don't have any kids and/or build really cool underground bunker.

so i guess i wont have to finish paying off this mortgage anyhow

This is absolutely ridiculous. More doom and gloom scenarios to scare you people into submission.

I’m a pretty optimistic person so this report doesn’t bother me. If we cross the tipping point in as little as ten years it does not mean the civilized world will be destroyed. Even if all the governments of the world did fail I would still be fine. I could survive a post apocalyptic world in my thirties.

100 months? Seems a little convenient and arbitrary a number to me.

Shit is goin' down, though. That's for sure.

Submission?

What kind of submission?