Bracing for a hard landing

This sobering article from Scientific American paints a fairly dismal picture of the future, strongly stating we have passed the point of no return on our planet.  It's unfortunate that greed and power lust has won out....if you can call that "winning."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=apocalypse-soon-has-civilization-passed-the-environmental-point-of-no-return