Endangered Planet

Former US Vice President Al Gore in his newly-released documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ says we are facing a ‘planetary emergency.’

Indicators of this emergency include:

* climate scientists’ dire warning on climate change (see -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1719606,00.html)

* shrinking polar ice caps (see –

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/science/Canada_Ice.html),

* thawing Siberian permafrost (see - http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1546824,00.html),

* collapse of fish stocks (see - http://www.guardian.co.uk/fish/story/0,,956142,00.html)

* global ecosystems under great stress (see - http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18624934.300)

* peaking of world oil and gas production (see http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php)