by The People

About the author: The People is a newspaper published by the Socialist Labor Party.

Periodically, during the last several decades, groups of scientists engaged in the study of varied phenomena vital to the existence and well-being of the manifold forms of plant and animal life that inhabit the planet earth have been prompted to issue warnings that irreversible damage is being done to the planet’s fragile life-support system, and that the consequences for the human race could be catastrophic. For example, in the 1970s, the British magazine, Ecologist, published an article entitled, “Blueprint for Survival,” bluntly warning of a possible worldwide environmental catastrophe “if [then] current trends were allowed to persist.”

Unheeded Warnings

Within days after publication of the “Blueprint” article, a group of 187 British scientists wrote a...