UN Warns of "A Major Planetary Catastrophe"
Humanity is close to breaching the sustainability of Earth, and needs a technological revolution greater – and faster – than the industrial revolution to avoid “a major planetary catastrophe,” according to a new United Nations report. The world is facing exploding population, an energy crisis, global climate change, increasingly destructive natural disasters and increasing starvation.
Major investments will be needed worldwide in the developing and scaling up of clean energy technologies, sustainable farming and forestry techniques, climate-proofing of infrastructure, and in technologies reducing non-biological degradable waste production, according to The World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation, published today by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
“It is rapidly expanding energy use, mainly driven by fossil fuels, that explains why humanity is on the verge of breaching planetary sustainability boundaries through global warming, biodiversity loss, and disturbance of the nitrogen-cycle balance and other measures of the sustainability of the earth’s ecosystem,” the report says. “A comprehensive global energy transition is urgently needed in order to avert a major planetary catastrophe.”
The survey says $1.9 trillion per year will be needed over the next 40 years for incremental investments in green technologies. At least $1.1 trillion of that will need to be made in developing countries to meet increasing food and energy demands.
“Technological transformation, greater in scale and achievable within a much shorter time frame than the first industrial revolution, is required,” it says. “The necessary set of new technologies must enable today’s poor to attain decent living standards, while reducing emissions and waste and ending the unrestrained drawdown of the Earth’s non-renewable resources.”
“Staging a new technological revolution at a faster pace and on a global scale will call for proactive government intervention and greater international cooperation. Sweeping technological change will require sweeping societal transformation, with changed settlement and consumption patterns and better social values,” it adds.
In the preface to the report, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon writes that “rather than viewing growth and sustainability as competing goals on a collision course, we must see them as complementary and mutually supportive imperatives. This becomes possible when we embrace a low-carbon, resource-efficient, pro-poor economic model.”
The survey concludes: “Business as usual is not an option. An attempt to overcome world poverty through income growth generated by existing ‘brown technologies’ would exceed the limits of environmental sustainability.”
According to the report, global sustainable energy transition needs to be achieved within four decades, a significantly faster rate than in the past.
Global sustainable energy policy must take into special consideration the 3 billion poor people who aspire to gaining access to electricity and modern energy services.
The scope of current national and global policies and programs does not “add up” to the scale of actions needed to meet global emission reduction targets. Paradoxically, they are also overly ambitious in terms of their expected outcomes and are inconsiderate of certain biophysical, techno-economic and socio-political limits to scaling up known technologies. A reality check of current plans is needed so that realistic and well-targeted initiatives can be devised at a far greater scale.
There is a need for comprehensive, strategic and systemic approaches that emphasize performance goals, niche markets and technology portfolios, especially those related to end-use. In order to take pressure off the technological innovation imperative, individual limits of 70 gigajoules (GJ) primary energy use per capita and 3 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita by 2050 may need to be considered. Such energy-use and emissions caps would not affect the development related aspirations of developing countries.
The sustainable energy transition offers significant economic opportunities for both developed and emerging market economies, but poses additional development challenges for poorer and more vulnerable countries, which would therefore require enhanced support from the international community.
To meet both the objectives of conquering poverty and protecting the environment, the World Economic and Social Survey 2011 calls for a complete transformation of technology on which human economic activity is based.
The “great green technological transformation” that the Survey champions will have to be completed in the next 30 to 40 years, that is, twice as fast as it took to accomplish previous major technological transitions. Because of the limited time frame, Governments will need to play a much more active and stimulating role to accelerate the green energy transformation. The Survey details new policy directions and major investments in developing and scaling up clean energy technologies, sustainable farming and forestry techniques, climate proofing of infrastructure and reducing non-bio-degradable waste production.
There are 22 countries regarded as facing a “protracted food security crisis” are home to over 165 million undernourished people (about 20 per cent of the world’s total). The proportion of undernourished people ranges from under 15 per cent in Cote d’Ivoire to almost 70 per cent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010a).
The report comes out yearly. Last year’s survey called for a major overhaul of the machinery for international finance, aid and trade.
While humankind has made enormous progress in improving material welfare over the past two centuries, this progress has come at the lasting cost of degradation of our natural environment. About half of the forests that covered the earth are gone, groundwater resources are being depleted and contaminated, enormous reductions in biodiversity have already taken place and, through increased burning of fossil fuels, the stability of the planet’s climate is being threatened by global warming. In order for populations in developing countries to achieve a decent living standard, especially the billions who currently still live in conditions of abject poverty, and the additional 2 billion people who will have been added to the world’s population by mid-century—much greater economic progress will be needed.
Continuation along previously trodden economic growth pathways will further exacerbate the pressures exerted on the world’s resources and natural environment, which would approach limits where livelihoods were no longer sustainable. Business as usual is thus not an option. Yet, even if we stop global engines of growth now, the depletion and pollution of our natural environment would still continue because of existing consumption patterns and production methods. Hence, there is an urgent need to find new development pathways which would ensure environmental sustainability and reverse ecological destruction, while managing to provide, now and in the future, a decent livelihood for all of humankind.
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wess/wess_current/2011wess.pdf
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My recommendations to the UN: eat doggie doo, it’s good for you, not me.
Good Lord in heaven, can’t you see the UN is trying to murder us? They’ll pillage the wealth of this country like locusts.
Another freakin’ hockey stick. We are all so surprised. It only worked for Al for so long for so many. Idiocracy is definitely the political party of the millennium. What will be even less surprising will be the amount of lost fluoridated souls who fall for this. I guess Al’s game was just a test fire.
The solution is already out there. Rossi’s E cat goes into production late this year or early next year. It needs to be spread world wide and put into mass production ASAP!. Politicians need to encourage it’s production a then get out of the way. Want to bet they do everything to stop it?
Cold fusion.
So, the UN’s report advises we allocate 1.9 Trillion per year to change the world into the model they prefer…
Indeed; they will suck what life is left out of our country; assuming the present administration leaves any.
South America’s nice this time of year…
Levi
The UNITED NATIONS???????? BAHHHAAA LMFAOROTG. A name you can trust. Oh no I just sh*t and pissed myself from laughing so hard. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh f*ck I’m gonna die. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH CRAP PISSED HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE UNITED NATIONS PLEASE FU*CKING NUKE YOURSELVES. PLEASE DIE.
“Quoting”
“Staging a new technological revolution at a faster pace and on a global scale will call for proactive government intervention and greater international cooperation. Sweeping technological change will require sweeping societal transformation, with changed settlement and consumption patterns and better social values,”
The “whole world” is already being geo engineered as they call it and redesigned. If all these rulers want smart cities, more green, blah blah..stop spilling all the oil! Stop destroying mother earth.
Bring in the free energy thats abundant,and stop Fracking all over the world for oil!
It is certainly not going to be good for us, either way it goes unless we become robots, we will be limited on how much electricity we can use in 24 hrs, how much water we can bath in, smart meters will be placed all over, and all the energy will actually be free; but “we” will have less and pay more.
Our houses will be downsized and will be no more than compact sleeping rooms not homes, Houses will be all bunched up in communal areas, no extra space to hang your hat even. We will walk or ride mopeds or jump on a shuttle.
The worst part is the population wont be but about 500,000,000.
UN…..says it all. I cant believe people still believe anything they have to say.
It is far less then amazing that so many people stand behind the UN which is “Alien Controlled” if you do you homework, you will discover that there are on-going secrets meetings in underground caves where “7-foot” grays appear and give orders. Many diplomats, scientist and political figures are paided great sums of money yearly to keep their mouths shut and offered even more after retirement, but few there are who have the courage to turn and walk away or attempt to warn the American people. For in most cases, their lives are threatened all the way up to close family members. We are somebody’s property!
the un allowed the rich capitalist to screw up the planet, and now they wont to bitch, to hell with them.
Didn’t we already know that the UN is “A MAJOR PLANETARY CATASTROPHE” ? When someone wants to be truly blessed, they will put their lives in compliance with YAHUAH’s laws – Deuteronomy ch.28.
Fear YAHUAH and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgement has arrived. Fall down before Him and worship Him Who created heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of water – Revelation 14:7.
Johnny
If you only knew the truth-but all you get is lies. Before WW2 Earth was approached by 2 choices-one would supply what would spiritual advance humanity, the other the evil side offered technology that humans were not spiritually advanced enough to handle. You can guess which side chose which in WW2, the winners are getting more and more technology-in return for the destruction of souls-by (war/greed/inequity/materialism)the end of what God created-all that is natural and has a oneness. They were not aliens-they are angels of heaven and demons of Hell(fallen angels-regressing backwards-not evolving forward. Now they say a new world order-but they always lie-what their goal is is and end of the world-chaos and disorder-the destruction of all God’s creation via technology. Trust your Government to be seduced by satan into the eventual destruction of all life on earth-they are fools. The truth is that the greatest power on earth will always be love-it makes everything better-no love(fallen angels)can only destroy. If Hitler had won-this would never had happened-life would be beautiful on earth.
“KISS THE BIG ONE” Al Gore AKA: Sex Poodle, Maurice Strong, George Soros, Prof. Joel Rogers, Cass Sunstein, Van Jones et al.
these idiots – all we need is for the ptb to stop slaughtering, poisoning, inducing, stealing, marauding,& plundering the earth and it’s people. that’s all. simple. stop them.
A world of so many mislead people from religion that is nothing more than Astrology dating back 5000 years ago on the tomb of Luxor where the Bible and another 183 other religions before it plagiarized from.
The Earth goes through roughly a 100K cycle where 90% is ice age and the remaining 10% is the thaw which at the end of the thaw is major hot temp[s (Global Warming) It is that required Global Warming that puts the earth back into it’s next Ice Age. Ice Ages require one of two things to occur. Major Heat to trigger an ice age or major Volcanic activity. The most common over time is the Heat Cycle (Global Warming).
Global Warming is not man made but a natural function of the earth cycle that pushes most land based life and shallow water life to extinct.
A world of so many mislead people from religion that is nothing more than Astrology dating back 5000 years ago on the tomb of Luxor where the Bible and another 183 other religions before it plagiarized from.
The Earth goes through roughly a 100K year cycle where 90% is ice age and the remaining 10% is the thaw which at the end of the thaw is major hot temp[s (Global Warming) It is that required Global Warming that puts the earth back into it’s next Ice Age. Ice Ages require one of two things to occur. Major Heat to trigger an ice age or major Volcanic activity. The most common over time is the Heat Cycle (Global Warming).
Global Warming is not man made but a natural function of the earth cycle that pushes most land based life and shallow water life to extinct.
Oh Earth, stop this crazy climate stuff, take our insanity; we are supreme beings and deserve anything we want! How dare you?
The natural progression of life on planet Earth will adjust everything but it is universal divine energy not physical actions that determine our reality. Let go and let the Divine flow…through you.
One of you said we have to stop f””’g without a condom. Well tell that to the billions of Muslims who do NOT use a condom, who are hell bent on becoming the largest population on earth, so they can enslave and murderso called infidels.
There is not one western country that is now having eno0ugh babies to replace themselves, BUT Muslim ARE INCREASING THEMSELVES BY MANY TIMES OVER.
DISPUTE THAT!!!!!!!!
Which ever way you look at it, if we continue down the path we are currently on, we are screwed.
While we need to be focused on sustainability and cooperation, most of the globe is fighting for exploitation and domination.
How much resources go into the destruction of the West through socialist, multicultural and diversity programs? While at the same time muslim neanderthals are fighting for a global caliphate.
The sad fact is that most humans are simply far too stupid to avoid self annihilation.
“The scope of current national and global policies and programs does not “add up” to the scale of actions needed to meet” the Crisis state that humanity is faced with at this point in its history. Which is, conversely, Opportunity. The Opportunity to break through to a higher level of consciousness than the one that put us up against the edge of great Crisis.
Consider. What the world needs is conservation, not growth. Sustainability, not imbalance. A greater degree of technological application, not ‘jobs’ per se. What it needs, then, is to release the training wheels of interest-bearing money and fractional-reserve banking – in order to live in greater harmony with Gaia – and evolve into a steady-state system. And in order to do that, we need to replace those training wheels with a higher motivation for human interaction. What is called for, now, is the highest motivation we can attain to. Which is to provide goods and services to one another, and give of our best in doing so, out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
That means that we need to acknowledge that there is something more than Man; that there is Plan in and Purpose to ‘the universe’ – to life; and start living as though that were truly the case. Not as if it is not, as we are doing at present.
The alternative is a rather dystopian future, of masters and slaves.
I choose to be neither. I choose the way of evolving in consciousness.
And your choice??
First of all global warming is not all caused by mankind. All the planets in the system are warming up. Does man live on all of them and pollute them as he does this one?? NO, have we forgotten about Nibiru, planetx, the destroyer, wormwood. And 9 million people on this planet is ludicrus,it should never have had more than 3.5 bill to be enviromentally stable. And we still live in the stoneage spiritually and technologically. Maybe cold fusion will help. We definately need better energy sources. Anonymous 10.02 july 6th said the truth. And quite being anonymous guys and girls, grow a set of balls the powers that be can only kill you once for telling it like it is LOL. Nibiru is prolly less than a year away and it will wipe out most of mankind anyhow. I see no greater purpose than to throw down my life for my friends and brothers!! Dont fear the powers that be, they are mostly going to die also. Do be afaid and aware of the other alliens that have been working with the governments of this planet as some of them i.e Reptilians and Zetas are incredibly evil, and they are the ones whom Jesus referred to as the fallen angels. Our government made all the wrong decisions because they are puppets of the Illuminati, as above so below? Trust in the Almighty Yahaveh and Yeshuah who is the son of GOD, Jesus Christ. Because Jesus is coming back to seriously kick some alien ass!! Which side will you want to be found on. Dont be a sheeple, dont be luke warm. Follow your hearts.
The UN what a joke…Satans-abililty more like it…not sustainability! United Nations can get lost…
With cold fusion, multi-storied, climate controlled, disaster-proof greenhouses with supplemental lighting can grow enough food for a population three times the size it is now. Water recycling technology, desalination, atmospheric moisture collection all powered by cold fusion can provide more than enough water. Sonic cleansing techniques can eliminate the need for cleaning with water. Super structures can be built from recycled materials housing hundreds of thousands, freeing up land for wildlife and natural growth. Spiritual growth is all that is needed, we already have all the knowledge of the technology. Once we have defeated the reptilian brained focused psychopaths ruling this planet, all we be good.
“these idiots – all we need is for the ptb to stop slaughtering, poisoning, inducing, stealing, marauding,& plundering the earth and it’s people. that’s all. simple. stop them.”
“They” are right about over population. After that, they are nothing more than fraudsters and con artists. We need to go beyond stopping them. We need to put them on trial for treason and many other crimes against humanity. After they are found guilty, we need to KILL them. Problem solved.
Not to worry.
Good old Mother Earth will take care of all of us PARASITES living here raping the girl.
But there will be survivors after the purge.
Those uncivilized,uneducated heathens living off the land and in harmony with their environment.
They will endure because they know how to.
The rest of us will just go running in to the streets crying,”Why me,Why me?”
And as always,Earth Abides
Yes. It is too bad that there are a bunch of corrupt, evil people who scheme on how to control, manipulate, and murder the population, claiming it to be a good thing.
This planet can actually take care of itself. God designed it that way. He is smart. Smarter than you. If there were not so many agriculture laws sprouting up everywhere, people could actually grow their own food. Why don’t they start flying planes around, dropping millions of seeds in lands that the food can grow naturally. Then say. Hey people. There is food down here. Lots of it. AND IT IS FREE. COME GET IT.
The problem is, that the food shortage has been created. We are not victims of over population. We are victims of control freaks, who have sold their souls to evil and corruption. They don’t allow a real free market to exist in this world. That is why so many people starve and die every day.
God created nature in such a way that it takes care of the population. Don’t listen to the lies from these people. Peacefully remove the people from power, who are causing these things, and restore the balance of life. Life has a natural balance. This evil corrupt group throws the balance off.
You know this is true, so don’t get upset that some people can see the obvious. Not everyone is distracted by the boo’s, football, sex, corrupt laws, judges, etc… that you put out there to distract everyone from the truth.
I LOVE AMERICA. WE NEED LEADERSHIP THAT LOVES PEOPLE. ALL PEOPLE, ALL OVER THE WORLD. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO USE THEIR POWER AND MIGHT TO BRING PEACE AND LOVE TO THE WORLD. NOT TO SELL THEMSELVES OUT TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE MONEY, GREED, LUST, LIES, CORRUPTION, EVIL, AND OPPRESSION THAT THEY ARE RELISHERS OF AND IN.
PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL
More garbage from the illegitimate and indefensible UN. And the magic solution is I wonder? Agenda 21 and global genocide? Just a wild hunch.
If the dumbasses in charge would spend tax dollars on problem solving instead of problem destroying(wars, war tech) we wouldn’t be on the verge of collapse. Eat the rich and powerful when the sh~t hits the fan.
want to help stop them? check out the American Spring page in facebook…join up…get to work. we could use your help bigtime
on facebook lol!
More propaganda from an agency that needs to justify their existance. It is their manipulation of situations that cause more problems than they solve, and generally an opposite outcome of their stated intent. Or maybe they know that and are just lying to us. I heard people complain about overpopulation 3500 years ago. This hype is nothing new.
As long as GREED remains the driving force in our world, nothing will change. Unfortunately it’s come to Survival of the Fittest and Wealthiest.
Yup! More “hockey stick” graphs to induce fear to make us believe we need to cough up all our money to save the world when in fact is giving it away to corrupt individuals posing as saviors. Wake up people and get back to simplicity. Don’t give your money to these people. They’re just hording it for themselves.
“There is not one western country that is now having eno0ugh babies to replace themselves, BUT Muslim ARE INCREASING THEMSELVES BY MANY TIMES OVER.
DISPUTE THAT!!!!!!!!” – Mexican’s!!!!!!!!
If what the UN says is true, then let’s eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we all die.
bottom line people,it’s ALL ABOUT CONTROL. You are being programmed for extreme restrictive living, we all are. And it has been going on for a long time. Only now, those who want that control, are bearing down, and speeding up everything. They understand that many of us know, but don’t care, because they also know that we are helpless to stop them.
Yes, we are helpless to stop them and they know this. And yes, it is going to get ugly in the not to distant future. I know that there are answers as to what can be done about these things coming down on the world, but also I know that I am too old to do anything about it and even if I tried, there are seven billion other people that have no clue about what is going on. The only real answer I can come up with is this. – Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we all die.
If there were respect for other human beings and nature in general, there was no need for greed, for desrespect for religious and cultural differences.
There is space for everybody in this planet, and if all money and economic could power distributed, there would be no children dying for food and thirst… just for this we all should be shamed for this to happen these days… for what? Money, control… “I’m better than you? More powerfull…?
Eugenicists should give us the example and kill them selfs: lead the way to reduce population.
The most powerful people should try to stay a few days with no food, no water, no home, job, no support at all… maybe they will see the world from a different perspective.
Diversity is one of the must of nature, humans should learn this to appreciate how important everything different is. From there, there would be more respect for differences… all kind of them, and would be possible an equilibrated and just mother earth: hour commune home. We all own it.
Clean energy could also supply jobs, etc.
Please, don’t let ‘them’ own you/us. Take ‘them’ out of power. The world don’t need people like that.
Recite a list of undeniable worries and THEN, if you are shyster SCUM like the UN, insert amongst them ‘global warming’ ‘taaaaax’, and then stand back while everybody goes, ‘Fine. Let them starve then you rancid trolls. Its on your hands’ No Al Gore. Never. Not at any price.
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