Nobody alive to fill 'em; but just think—all of those jobs!

[FrankGSterleJr]

Unlike with many other dire warnings I read regarding spaceship Earth’s sustainable ecology and environment, I was quite alarmed upon reading the very serious and urgent findings and warnings by a consortium of 27 of the world’s top ocean experts who met last April in Oxford. To quote one expert: “Unless action is taken now, the consequences of our activities are at a high risk of causing, through the combined effects of climate change, over-exploitation, pollution and habitat loss, the next globally significant extinction event in the ocean,” which in turn directly affects the environmental viability of the entire planet and thus humanity.
Such extinction events have occurred five times in Earth’s extensive history, during the last 500-plus millions years; however, the next such occurrence—to be the very worst instance of such an extinction event—is serious enough to force us to eventually acknowledge that “we are looking at consequences for humankind that will impact [us] in our lifetime.”
Indeed, helplessly observing how people all around me behave as though they simply have no clue as to the hell that may be in store for them, and observing the vast majority of the globe’s prominent news-media focusing almost entirely on the economy and building even more major polluting refineries and factories (etc.) mostly in the name of creating jobs—and almost naught of humanity’s and other Earth life’s very survival—a 1988 Midnight Oil hit song comes to mind: “How can we dance when our Earth is burning? / How can we sleep when our beds are burning?”