When Do We Call This An Environmental Apocalypse?

At what point do we call this ecological disaster an environmental apocalypse? How bad does it have to get before people finally wake up? 

Our culture has been slowly destroying its land base for the past 7,000 to 10,000 years. Industrial technology has accelerated this to the point where an environmental apocalypse is a very real possibility within our lifetimes. 

So at what point do we say enough is enough? How much more destruction will it take?

200 species a day are becoming extinct. Is it going to take the extinction of the panda or the elephant before people will notice? The Amazon is being cut down at the rate of one football field per second. How many football fields have to go before we do something about it? 

The majority are slumbering along, content to suffer in silence.

How miserable do people need to get before they realize that there must be a better way to live? Will it be when it becomes normal for both parents to work two jobs just to scrape the bare necessities of life? Will it be when one in every four teenagers commits suicide? What is the threshold? How bad does it have to get before we will change? 

There are voices who are crying out but it is nowhere near critical mass. The vast majority of people are still slumbering along, intoxicated by fast food and television, waiting for somebody else to save the world, content to suffer in silence.

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