By
Robert Walker, President, Population Institute. Thanks to PMC for
this one.
Scientists
get no respect these days. When they speak, no one listens. It
doesn't matter how many scientists are speaking, what they are
saying, or what their qualifications are, they get a fraction of the
media attention lavished on a reality TV star or an American Idol
contestant. Three
thousand scientists and experts,
including a number of Nobel Laureates, joined together and issued a
warning
several weeks ago about the planet and possible "catastrophic
consequences" for global civilization, but Kim Kardashian and
her alleged marriage woes stole the headlines. The Royal Society, the
world's oldest and most distinguished academy of science, late last
month issued a report
on how increasing population and rising consumption are imperiling
the planet. Sir
John Sulston,
the Nobel Prize Laureate who chaired the working group, cautioned
about a possible "downward vortex of economic, socio-political
and environmental ills," but his warning got less press
attention in the U.S. than Mitt Romney's dog.
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