Let's suppose that happens. Humanity's ever-expanding footprint on the natural world leads, in two or three hundred years, to ecological collapse and a mass extinction. Without fossil fuels to support agriculture, humanity would be in trouble. "A lot of things have to die, and a lot of those things are going to be people," says Tony Barnosky, a palaeontologist at the University of California, Berkeley. In this most pessimistic of scenarios, society would collapse, leaving just a few hundred thousand eking out a meagre existence in a new Stone Age. Full story:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.300-posthuman-earth-how-the-planet-will-recover-from-us.html?full=true
* ECOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM PREVIOUS PLANET X PASSAGES:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2008/11/ecological-evidence-from-previous.html
* New Scientist: Is there a Planet X?:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-scientist-is-there-planet-x.html
* New Scientist: The mystery of Planet X:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-scientist-mystery-of-planet-x.html
