Abstract
Electric narrow gauge railroads near highways are torn up to provide space for exhaust‐spewing buses. New apartments and hotels are added to seaside resorts to increase the amount of unfiltered sewage in the sea. Venice and Bruges discharge untreated human faeces into the canals sailed by oblivious tourists, while Europe heralds with joy the era of the plastic container but no new dumps. Totally ignorant of the environmental disaster to which America just awoke, other countries seem to be determined to emulate the United States in a headlong rush to destruction. “Give Earth a chance”, is the author's cry. The author does not wish to be a prophet of doom, but evidence produced by scientists of repute points to the urgent need to sacrifice some of the aspects of the “easy life”, to reduce industrial pollution, to restrict demands for energy, and to control the population explosion. The alternative is an unhabitable Earth or a substandard geoecosystem housing a debilitated humanity.
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