"Now, notice what doesn’t happen. Humanity faces a real crisis – one that threatens not only Wall Street, but all life on Earth. Call it Global Warming, call it Peak Oil, call it running out of water on a global scale, call it the collapse of industrial agriculture. Call it fisheries collapsing, call it mass extinction. Call it the potential of planetary death. Call it what is inside the Black Hole made visible, palpable in its meaning. Call it the real event horizon. Call it the Killing horizon. It’s every bit as complex in all of its intersections as the financial “crisis,” but, unlike the financial “crisis,” it’s real. And what happens? Nothing. No significant action. At all. There’s no $700 billion plan to save the Earth – which sustains us all." - triple t from Bookmarklet

The human animal will survive. It is, after all, what we do. Most of us will be trapped by our arrogance, by the thought that the end of the world doesn't affect me. But man will still be here tomorrow. And tomorrow. And tomorrow - Slappy Line

As long as it doesn't affect our generation or a few down the line, we don't seem to care. - Head Ov Metal

Is it possible that we are moving toward integrity? For me it seems that more and more the hollowness of the world is so obvious. Is it just me? Or is this happening to others? - triple t

erm, apart from when we were still tree shrews, of course. - Slappy Line

It's not safe to assume that the human species is a permanent fixture on this planet. - Sean McBride

Unfortunately, power will always rule, and power is always gained by the ruthless. Trends may seem extant now, but in time they will fall. - Slappy Line

Saying "we will survive" doesn't speak much to the quality of that life, and speaking to humanity alone disregards the multitude of species dwindling in number daily. Will we live, but lose our souls? On the other hand, awakenings large and small do happen. Time will tell, and time heals all wounds, but it cannot raise the dead, so there are limits to our folly. - Jason Wehmhoener

If we can rise from the handful of lost souls left after the last ice age to the position we are in today, then we can rise from whatever is left after the next collapse. - Slappy Line