There are 7 billion people, which is unsustainable at our current level of technology in my opinion.

If you find the article questionable you should read the comments.

I suggest you sacrifice yourself.

I skipped this all, only to say this. Please, please stop making these threads!... Again! I don't care who makes the thread, as long as it's made, it will get attention. I know I'm not helping at all but I hope to prevent these things in the future. Anyway, at least don't make the title sound that desperate. I didn't see that in the original title either, you seem just like an attention whore (in my eyes at least, the others are free to disagree).

I sir am no whore!!!

You have the freedom to click on any thread you want. Use it and STFU!!!

Ain't nothing but political hyperbole to fund environmentalism causes. If environmentalism was a world-wide movement, then the individual members would not need to call on governments to take action because citizens in every country would be able to fund the cause and take action themselves. Instead, we have Bjorn Lomberg telling us what we need to do.

I am waiting when one of these environmentalists will bust into my bathroom when I am taking a doody and steal my toilet paper roll because it is killing Mother Earth.

I have it on good authority that we'll be around (on this planet) for at least another 500,000 years. After that, I'm not sure. So whatever mass extinction is coming our way in the next millennium or so (and it may include the near extinction of humanity) humanitry should pull through. Can't say the polar bears, or baby seals will though.

It really isn't hyperbole. In fact this article is probably guilty of gross understatement. The current extinction rate isn't running at 10-100 times, it seems to be running closer to 10,000 times background.

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Edenic_Period

Also these aren't crazy environmentalists who bust into labs and free animals like you make them out to be. They're scientists studying the rate of extinction and the current rate definitely qualifies this as an extinction event, not one of the major events yet but certainly significant.

Makes sense as the human population is growing, the habitat for animals gets smaller and smaller until extinction occurs. Even worse is the phenomenon happening to male frogs where pollutants in the air are making them infertile. Frog species are dying out at an unprecedented rate.

The problem is many of these scientists come from 1st world countries such as the USA, Canada, Japan and countries in Western Europe. To the aspiring farmer in Brazil or Indonesia, the arguments from the scientists come across as telling them and their families to stay in poverty because rich, American and European tourists want to spend a few weeks there on vacation.

The fight for environmentalism is multi-faceted. Public opinion for the most part is in favor of curbing practices that promote mass extinction of symbolic species such as eagles, wolves, lions, tigers, elephants and on. The harder battle is getting citizens in emerging economies to change their lifestyle in order to accomodate the world for all of God's creatures.

Why are you bringing religion into this?