“If there is no action before 2012, it is too late.What we do now in the next 2-3 years will determine our future.This is the defining moment.”
(2007)
“We are really running out of time.in fact, this next year or two years are the critical time period.”
(2008)
“We are so close to the red line, we may wake up tomorrow and discover there is nothing left to save.” “We have a full-scale planetary emergency.”
-Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of
IPCC
-Dr. James Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies-Maneka Gandhi, former Indian Environment Minister-Al Gore, former US Vice President
The Union of Concerned Scientists
, some 1,700 of the world’s leading scientists,including the majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences issued this warning as far back as 1992:
We the undersigned, senior members of the world's scientific community, hereby warn allhumanity of what lies ahead.A great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required, if vast humanmisery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievablymutilated.
WARNING
The scientists issuing this warning hope that our message will reach and affect peopleeverywhere. We need the help of many.
We call on all to join us in this task.
Source:
“1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity”.www.ucsusa.org.Union of Concerned Scientists. Retrieved on 17-01-2009. http://tinyurl.com/5qndft
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