Stern pronouncements about the global environmental condition issued by the world's leading scientists at the International Botanical Congress in St. Louis this month are only animated by the specter of a Yucca Mountain of nuclear waste, a mountain that will be lethal to every living thing on the planet for the next 2,000 generations. No wonder we fork over wads of cash in pursuit of activities that slip our brains into an alpha state.
Alpha eventually wears off.
When it does, we find that we are not so much distanced from our vexations as we are even more deeply vexed by solutions. It is here to stay. We know that Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a zoologist widely regarded as one of the 10 most influential scientists in the world, delivered the plenary address to the same International Botanical Congress in St. Louis earlier this month, and made history. If you missed it, Lubchenco announced, with chilling clarity and stern scientific certainty, that biological life forms on planet Earth have entered End Game. The following findings announced by Lubchenco should make the blood run cold in every man and woman alive today.