At no time in the history of the planet have we faced so many challenges, threats, issues, destruction, all man-made, to the future of the planet. The purpose of this site is to highlight these concerns. This is a non-political, non-partisan, non-religious and non-ideological effort with no agenda, the purpose is to simply reveal the facts and truths of the State of the Planet, as they are today.
We spend our entire lifetimes getting and spending and using and exploiting the Planet’s resources, without any care and without restoring and preserving the resources that we use for a sustainable future. Education systems and practices are built to fully exploit the Earth’s resources with utter disrespect and disdain for nature and animals, the proof is everywhere, a simple example is species extinction.
China, India, the US and Europe are the biggest polluters in the world, sadly, poorer nations and poor people have to pay the price for their extravagances.
Every-time you purchase or consume an item produced in China then you are directly contributing to global warming because finished products have to be shipped all over the planet.
“We are but transient passengers on this planet Earth. It does not belong to us. We are not free to doom generations yet unborn. We are not at liberty to erase humanity’s past or dim its future. Social systems do not endure for eternity. Only life can lay claim to uninterrupted continuity. This continuity is sacred.”
Disrespect for nature is leading to our own destruction, by desecrating the biosphere with our pollution and having initiating the Planet’s sixth mass extinction by annihilating species around the planet, we are setting ourselves up for our own mass extinction. This is the direct result of our inability to understand our part in the natural world. We live in a world where we are acidifying the oceans, where there will be fewer places cold enough to support year-round ice and where all current coastlines will be underwater and where droughts, wildfires, floods, storms and extreme weather is already becoming the new normal.
(Author Dahr Jamail – The End of Ice, 2018)
Over-Population is the root cause of climate change and a myriad of other issues that we are experiencing today, we humans are over breeding and displacing other species and making them extinct, there is no leader anywhere who is prepared to discuss over-population and tackle the problem. (April 1987)
“Our idea of human importance has to change. We are just another life form on the Planet” Sadhguru
The more urbanized and industrialized a country becomes, the more trash it produces.
“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.” ~ Sioux Proverb
No Water, No Life – No Blue, No Green.
Less Technology, More Independence.
The Planet has ‘already reached climate change tipping points’ as leading scientists warn we are heading for catastrophic domino effect
– Scientists say 9 ‘tipping points’ leading to climate catastrophe already reached
– So much damage done that global warming could create a domino effect
Scientists said urgent action is needed before further milestones passed
Nine key ‘tipping points’ that will lead to catastrophic global warming have been reached, a group of leading scientists have warned.
1. Amazon Rain Forests – Frequent Droughts
2. Arctic Sea Ice – reduction in surface area
3. Atlantic Circulation – in slowdown since 1950’s
4. Boreal Forests – Fires and Pests changing
5. Coral Reefs – Large scale die-offs
6. Greenland Ice Sheet – Ice Loss accelerating
7. Permafrost – Thawing
8. West Antarctic – Ice Loss accelerating
9. wilkes Basin – East Antarctic – Ice Loss accelerating
Download two most interesting eBooks on Global Warming and it’s Effects:
1, The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace
2. Jeffrey A Jacobs and David Wallace – Global Warming 2019 Report
Watch Video: The World Needs to Hear This
A. Nature and Mankind’s Harm to Nature and the Planet
1. Exposed Permafrost Layer
2. Melting Ice Caps
3. Species Extinction
4. Threatened Wilderness
5. Climate Change – Global Warming
6. Pollution in Waterways
7. Animal Cruelty, Factory Farming
8. Deforestation
9. Ozone Layer Depletion
10. Air Pollution
11. Toxic Waste
12. Ocean Dead Zones
13. Marine Debris – Plastics in Sea and River Water and Plastic Islands
14. Greenhouse Gases
15. Desertification
16. Land Degradation
17. Acidification of Coral Reefs
18. Groundwater Pollution
19. Run off waste from farms into waterways
20. Commercial Farming, insecticides, pesticides
21. Killing off of Bees
22. Toxic Carcinogens everywhere
23. GMO Genetically Modified Crops – Interfering with the life cycle of Nature
24. Extreme Weather – Hurricanes, Floods, Tornadoes, Tsunamis, Drought, Heat Waves
25. Melting Glaciers
26. Melting Icecaps
27. Collapsing Ecosystems
28. Satellites and Space Debris
29. Fishing Nets in Oceans (Ghost Nets)
30. Wildfires
31. Insect Decline
32. Earth’s magnetic poles have flipped
Download the entire contents of the site in a single PDF file:
State of the Planet (English) – Summarized
State of the Planet (English) – in Detail
B. State of Mankind
1. Overpopulation
2. Societal Collapse – Extinction of Civilizations
3. Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste
4. Energy Economy – Fossil Fuels – Oil and Coal
5. Morality, Civility, Ethics, Decaying Moral Values
6. Urban Sprawl
7. Water Scarcity
8. Food Scarcity
9. Evils of the Connected World – Internet
10. Materialism and Consumerism
11. Corruption and Greed
12. Factory Farming
13. Fast Foods
14. Information Overload
15. 24 X 7 News Addiction
16. Video Games and TV Addiction
17. Globalization
18. Ills of Mobile Phones
19. Wars – endless Wars
20. Military Industrial Complex
21. Weapons of Mass Destruction
22. Addiction to Fossil Fuels
23. Pharma World
24. Control of the Press, News Manipulation
25. Technology Addiction
26. Internet Hackers – Modern Day Pirates?
27. Cyber Warfare
28. Modern Technologies, good for convenience not good for the environment
29. Super Bugs
30. Global Currency Manipulation
31. Arm Sales to Poorer Nations
32. Exploitation of poor
33. Divide and Rule Policies
34. One Percent
35. Business Irresponsibility
36. Evils of Social Media
37. Mobile Phones, radiation, signals, waste and recycling nightmares
38. Garbage Trash Dumps
39. Consumerism
40. Nuclear Warfare
41. Fast Life
42. Packaging Pollution
43. Plastics Pollution
44. Processed Foods
45. Cancer
46. Stresses of Modern Day Life
47. Family Life on a Garbage Dumps
48. Human Trafficking
49. Narcotic Drugs
50. Disposable Fashion and Cotton
51. 9 Tipping Points to Climate Change Catastrophe
52. Cell phones causing eye damage
53. Fracking in the US for Oil and Gas
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Poem: The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth
Concern about the effects of consumerism and materialism is not a new thing. As far back as 1806, in his poem, The World is too much with us; late and soon. William Wordsworth warned against the phenomenon of “getting and spending”:
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
Concern about the effects of consumerism and materialism is not a new thing. As far back as 1806, in his poem, The World is too much with us; late and soon. William Wordsworth warned against the phenomenon of “getting and spending”:
We are today so ensnared in the process of buying and selling things in the market place, that we cannot imagine human life being otherwise. Because, consumption and consumerism dominate social discourse and political agendas of all parties, consumerism hogs the limelight at centre stage as the prime objective of life.
Packaging – much of it single-use food wrapping – has created a rubbish problem that now pollutes every corner of the world, we’d also do well to follow France’s lead in banning plastic cutlery, cups and plates.
Plastic is a substance the earth cannot digest, REFUSE SINGLE-USE PLASTICS.
The human race is on a path to self-destruction, what with exploding populations, it seems as if people would like to replace animals by making them extinct and also replacing them with “domesticated animals” for food purposes as well as cutting down trees wherever possible for farm land or housing. bv.
“We face an Existential Crisis as a species, we can either continue to ignore the facts and sciences or decide to make drastic changes” bv. (August, 2018 )
Anthropogenic Climate Disruption:
Earth’s species, glaciers, rivers, lakes and forests are, in a blink of a geologic eye, falling into oblivion.
Modern life has compressed time and space. Through air travel or instantaneous communication and access to information you can traverse the globe in a matter of hours or gain knowledge nanoseconds after a question is posed. The price for this along with everything else we want, on demand, all the time, is a total disconnect from the planet that sustains our lives.
The frenetic pace of contemporary life is having a devastating impact on the planet. Humans have transformed more than half the ice-free land on Earth. We have changed the composition of the atmosphere and the chemistry of the oceans from which we came.
As a species, we now hang over the abyss of a geo-engineered future we have created for ourselves. At our insistence, our voracious appetite is consuming nature itself. We have refused to heed the warnings Earth has been sending, and there is no rescue team on its way.
The Planet’s cooling system is over-heating and world leaders, wealthy people and politicians have chosen to ignore the warning signs, sadly, poor people, poor countries, all types of species and the environment have to pay the ultimate price, when history is written, in fact there will be no history written as we march towards the next mass extinction. The biggest contributor is overpopulation, not one world leader is prepared to address the underlying issue of overpopulation, the planet is not designed to house 7.7 billion people (2018 and growing), we are literally consuming the planet to go out of existence.
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“If I could make everyone in the world see one film,
I’d make them see EARTHLINGS.”
– Peter Singer, author Animal Liberation
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Two aliens are talking in outer space, looking down on Earth.
“It seems the inhabitants of planet Earth have created nuclear technology and missiles” says one alien
“are they showing any signs of intelligence?” asks the other
“I don’t think so. They seem to be aiming them at each other.”
What is the purpose of Life? is it only about getting and spending? about materialism and shopping? is it about the traditional markers of success, like salary, status and security? or is it the realization that making a living does not always equate to making a life.
Making a life also requires one to focus on the Art of Living, on loving relationships, emotional intelligence, a sense of meaning and purpose and living in harmony with all of God’s creations for a sustainable future including protecting and nurturing Mother Earth.
For most of human history, the word “technology” has been identified with progress. An ax made of metal instead of stone makes life easier and better, just like refrigeration or the power steering.
It’s only in the past few decades that the scientific and industrial processes we’ve invented have created so much progress that it’s sometimes too much. All of the advancement has created a social construct that is, for the first time, seen negatively. And so instead of basking in the modern world, we yearn to unplug and disconnect.
People and companies have been manufacturing all sorts of products mostly for profit without thinking about the implications for the health of people or the health of the planet, one product that comes to mind is plastics. After 60 years of inventions and manufacturing all in the name of progress, the devastating effects are everywhere threatening our very existence on the planet.
“We are but transient passengers on this planet Earth. It does not belong to us. We are not free to doom generations yet unborn. We are not at liberty to erase humanity’s past or dim its future. Social systems do not endure for eternity. Only life can lay claim to uninterrupted continuity. This continuity is sacred.”
*** World Military spending outdoes everything else.
War has always been madness, always immoral, always the cause of unspeakable suffering, economic waste and widespread destruction, and always a source of poverty, hate, barbarism and endless cycles of revenge and counter-revenge. It has always been a crime for soldiers to kill people, just as it is a crime for murderers in civil society to kill people. No flag has ever been wide enough to cover up atrocities.
The facts in a nutshell – we face an existential threat – technology is moving super fast without any considerations of the impact on the environment and natural resources, a bleak future is no surprise, “what you sow, so shall you reap”, modern technology and inventions has certainly made life more comfortable for us, but at what cost? new technology marvels like plastics, cell phones, GMO foods, the combustion engine, fast foods, packaging, cleaning detergent, Urban Sprawl, Food production, garbage, factory farming, etc. have been created with scant consideration of it’s effects on the planet, for example, cell phone signals are interfering with bees, the people who create these gadgets and conveniences have only one motive in mind and that is profits with no regard to it’s impact on nature and other living beings. (bv, December 2018)
Download US National Climate Assessment Report 2018 on Climate Change: National Climate Assessment 2018 Summary-Findings
Live Kindly, Eat Healthy for a Sustainable Future: Live Kindly
In a nutshell, we are destroying the Planet because of over-use, over-consumption and greed, without a scant respect for nature, animals and the environment, we’ve created the building blocks for the sixth mass extinction.
We are inventing all forms of technologies in the name name of progress, however, some technologies like cell phones threaten our very existence on the planet because we don’t know how it affects other species like for example bees, if bees become extinct then we will follow and become extinct.
86% of the world’s resources are consumed by the world’s wealthiest 20%.
The purpose of the website is to raise global awareness of how we are collectively destroying the Planet.
My plan is to contact educational authorities around the world and propose that they add the topics on the website
to their high school curriculum’s so that school children become aware of reality at an early age.
Do you care for your own house? do you make repairs if anything is damaged? would you protect your house against any threats? would you trash and damage your own house? Yes, we will look after our own homes but don’t care much about the environment or the planet, we collectively are destroying the planet, which is the only ‘home’ that we’ll ever know, sadly, we’ve on track for the sixth mass extinction.
20 countries are responsible for 80% of the world’s carbon emissions, below are list of the top 10:
China, with more than 10,065 million tons of CO2 released.
United States, with 5,416 million tons of CO2
India, with 2,654 million tons of CO2
Russia, with 1,711 million tons of CO2
Japan, 1,162 million tons of CO2
Germany, 759 million tons of CO2
Iran, 720 million tons of CO2
South Korea, 659 million tons of CO2
Saudi Arabia, 621 million tons of CO2
Indonesia, 615 million tons of CO2
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State of the Planet 