Mankind & Earth: the Necessary Ingredients for a Responsible Love Story

RaKaR · 03-12-2009, 06:18 AM

Greeting of peace and love to all Avalonians,

We will insert here the following, closely related to our topic, update from Earth Policy, called 'HEALTH CHALLENGES GROWING'.
It draws a rather disturbing picture of the state of health of Earth population - as if Mr. Billy Meier didn't warn us enough! For decades!

Friends, the direct and 'collateral' damage of overpopulation is far reaching.

"Earth Policy News - HEALTH CHALLENGES GROWING

Earth Policy News (Earthpolicynews@earthpolicy.org)
Wednesday, March 11, 2009.

HEALTH CHALLENGES GROWING

Health challenges are becoming more numerous as new infectious diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu emerge. In addition, the accumulation of chemical pollutants in the environment is starting to take a toll. While infectious diseases are fairly well understood, the health effects of many environmental pollutants are not yet known.

Among the leading infectious diseases, malaria claims more than 1 million lives each year, 89 percent of them in Africa. The number of people who suffer from it most of their lives is many times greater. Economist Jeffrey Sachs estimates that reduced worker productivity and other costs associated with malaria are cutting economic growth by a full percentage point in heavily affected countries.

Although diseases such as malaria and cholera exact a heavy toll, there is no recent precedent of a disease affecting as many people as the HIV epidemic does. To find anything similar to such a potentially devastating loss of life, we have to go back to the smallpox decimation of Native American communities in the sixteenth century or to the bubonic plague that took roughly a fourth of Europe’s population during the fourteenth century. HIV is an epidemic of epic proportions that, if not checked soon, could take more lives during this century than were claimed by all the wars of the last century.

Since the human immunodeficiency virus was identified in 1981, it has spread worldwide, leading to the deaths of more than 25 million people." [...]

Lester R. Brown

http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Seg/PB3ch06_ss3.htm

03-12-2009, 06:18 AM	#11
RaKaR Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 285	Re: Mankind & Earth: the Necessary Ingredients for a Responsible Love Story Greeting of peace and love to all Avalonians, We will insert here the following, closely related to our topic, update from Earth Policy, called 'HEALTH CHALLENGES GROWING'. It draws a rather disturbing picture of the state of health of Earth population - as if Mr. Billy Meier didn't warn us enough! For decades! Friends, the direct and 'collateral' damage of overpopulation is far reaching. "Earth Policy News - HEALTH CHALLENGES GROWING Earth Policy News (Earthpolicynews@earthpolicy.org) Wednesday, March 11, 2009. HEALTH CHALLENGES GROWING Health challenges are becoming more numerous as new infectious diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu emerge. In addition, the accumulation of chemical pollutants in the environment is starting to take a toll. While infectious diseases are fairly well understood, the health effects of many environmental pollutants are not yet known. Among the leading infectious diseases, malaria claims more than 1 million lives each year, 89 percent of them in Africa. The number of people who suffer from it most of their lives is many times greater. Economist Jeffrey Sachs estimates that reduced worker productivity and other costs associated with malaria are cutting economic growth by a full percentage point in heavily affected countries. Although diseases such as malaria and cholera exact a heavy toll, there is no recent precedent of a disease affecting as many people as the HIV epidemic does. To find anything similar to such a potentially devastating loss of life, we have to go back to the smallpox decimation of Native American communities in the sixteenth century or to the bubonic plague that took roughly a fourth of Europe’s population during the fourteenth century. HIV is an epidemic of epic proportions that, if not checked soon, could take more lives during this century than were claimed by all the wars of the last century. Since the human immunodeficiency virus was identified in 1981, it has spread worldwide, leading to the deaths of more than 25 million people." [...] Lester R. Brown http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Seg/PB3ch06_ss3.htm