A British Establishmentarian heeds the voice of God:

...Sea level is predicted to rise by 3ft over the next
century, leading to huge areas of Bangladesh, Egypt and China being inundated.

We don't know the limits of nature - how much rain could fall for how long a period, how much more powerful and frequent hurricanes could become, for how long droughts could endure. The ultimate concern is that if runaway global warming occurred, temperatures could spiral out of control and make our planet uninhabitable.

Five times in the past 540 million years there have been mass
extinctions, in one case involving the destruction of 96% of species then living. But while these were the result of asteroid strikes or intense glaciation, this is the first time that a species has been at risk of generating its own demise...

See also, Aral Sea Disaster

Noah Says...

As a fatter of mact, all drugs are tested in humans anyway, in "Phase II Clinical Trials". This is where the actual effects of a drug begin to become apparent. Though less profitable for Purina and the Primate Research Institute, the methods described produce more medically accurate results:
IN VITRO RESEARCH • EPIDEMIOLOGY
COMPUTER & MATHEMATICAL MODELING • GENETICS
CLINICAL RESEARCH • AUTOPSIES •
POST-MARKETING SURVEILLANCE • TECHNOLOGY

If Not Animal Experimentation, Then What?

This is not about animal rights, thought the bunnies getting their eyelids cut off would be sympathetic to the argument. It is about good science vs. bad science. Fallacious data regarding medications, garnered through animal experimentation, leads to injury and death in humans. The simple fact is, animals are not little humans, and there is no one-to-one mapping of drug or procedural effects in animals to their effects in humans. We're a whole different animal.
Not only does animal experimentation divert limited resources away from valid science, but by delaying innovation, therapies and cures, it prolongs human suffering and increases mortality. Animal experimentation has misled researchers for centuries, confounding our understanding of the human body and the diseases that plague it.

Animal experimentation consumes half of all research spending, for those of you who like to 'follow the money'.

50 DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF LAB ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone makes milk cheaper by causing cows to pump out more of the stuff, and brings in lots of money for Monsanto. It also induces very elevated levels of IGF-1 (Insulin Growth Factor-1) which is a powerful tumor growth promoter. Only one test of safety was ever done, and the FDA will not allow anyone to see the raw data for peer review. Cheaper milk also means more small dairy farms go out of business. You won't find this out from Fox News, who is now suing the reporters who uncovered the story to keep them from INDEPENDANTLY publishing their findings. Find the full story of food industry business-as-usual here....

PR Watch: Monsanto and Fox: Partners in Censorship

] Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the
] time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they
] haggle over the price. Marxists think we should be bossed
] by bureaucrats. Libertarians think we should be bossed by
] businessmen. Feminists don't care which form bossing
] takes so long as the bosses are women. Clearly these
] ideology-mongers have serious differences over how to
] divvy up the spoils of power. Just as clearly, none of
] them have any objection to power as such and all of them
] want to keep us working.

The Abolition of Work--Bob Black

Laugh your fool head off with this delightful vision of America's office culture.

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