Part one of term paper
This is the litany: Our resources are running out. The air is bad, the water worse. The planet's specis are dying off-more exactly, we're killing them -at the staggering rate of 100,000 per year, a figure that works out to almost 2000 species per weak, 300 per day, 10 per hour, another dead species every 6 minutes. We're trashing the planet, ...

Part two of term paper
... Earth, our small and fragile tiny planet, and we're fast apporaching it's ultimate carrying capacity. The limits to growth are finally upon us, and we're living on borrowed time. The laws of population growth are inexorable, Unless we act decisively, the final result is written in stone: mass poverty, famine, starvation, and death.Time is short, and we have to act now. That's the standard adn canonical litany. It's been drilled into our heads so far and so focefuly that to hear it yet once m ...