Comments on: A Green Party voice in Westminster http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/blog/2010/05/14/a-green-party-voice-in-westminster/ Topical information for researchers, policy advisers and the public who are interested in the interaction between ecology and public policy. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:06:05 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steven Earl Salmony http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/blog/2010/05/14/a-green-party-voice-in-westminster/comment-page-1/#comment-37828 Steven Earl Salmony Tue, 18 May 2010 00:26:18 +0000 http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=1096#comment-37828 There appears to be a conscious unwillingness among many too many experts, thought leaders and opinion makers to acknowledge in open discussion the utter seriousness of humanity's global predicament, the consequences of which could be profound, and world-shattering in ways we cannot even imagine. That corporations keep growing toward the 'Wall' of unsustainability and governments continue to conspicuously ignore humanity's predicament by failing to prepare the human family for the recognizable, human-driven effects of the human overpopulation of Earth in our time is the most unfortunate of human determinations. Somehow the "will" has to be summoned to begin coming to grips with the human-induced global challenges that loom so ominously before all of us. Individuals are called upon the reduce their ecological footprints and the family of humanity is implored to limit the number of human feet on Earth. There appears to be a conscious unwillingness among many too many experts, thought leaders and opinion makers to acknowledge in open discussion the utter seriousness of humanity’s global predicament, the consequences of which could be profound, and world-shattering in ways we cannot even imagine. That corporations keep growing toward the ‘Wall’ of unsustainability and governments continue to conspicuously ignore humanity’s predicament by failing to prepare the human family for the recognizable, human-driven effects of the human overpopulation of Earth in our time is the most unfortunate of human determinations. Somehow the “will” has to be summoned to begin coming to grips with the human-induced global challenges that loom so ominously before all of us.

Individuals are called upon the reduce their ecological footprints and the family of humanity is implored to limit the number of human feet on Earth.

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