Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00075)

I believe the quote below is telling the true story. Unless we, the technologically advanced part of
the world, implement clean and resource saving technologies quickly, the planet is going down in
environmental disaster.

Bjorn


>     Spiraling use of fossil fuels that produce heat-trapping
> carbon gases is changing the earth's climate, worsening
> prospects that mankind will be able to adequately feed the
> growing population and protect itself from worsening storms,
> droughts and heat waves, it said.
>             While the World Bank recently predicted that Brazil, China,
> India, Indonesia and Russia would become economic superpowers in
> 20 years, Worldwatch said the bank's economists did not mention
> likely costs of such growth -- deadly air and water pollution,
> rising carbon emissions, depleted resources.
>             Disaster can be averted only if these and other developing
> nations recognize that the ``western fossil fuel-based,
> automobile-centered economy is not a viable model for the
> world,'' the report said.