Human population is expanding far beyond the long-term carrying capacity of the land, and the ever-increasing spectre of man-made pollution continues unabated, slowly but surely destroying the very habitat upon which he lives. The ozone layer is contracting so that harmful rays are ever increasing, while the global climate is showing worrisome signs of instability. Oil the foundation upon which the world's products and econemy depends is running out and global economic collapse in sight. And all roads lead to the year 2050 ....

Doomwatch 1970's TV Series      This site has been inspired by the environmental drama series Doomwatch premiered on BBC1 in early 1970, quickly capturing newspaper headlines and an audience of 13 million viewers. The programme also attracted the attention of politicians, scientists and the burgeoning environmental lobby.      Davis was quoted in the Daily Mail as saying, "It is a staggering coincidence that many of the programmes we put out turn into reality a few days later. Of course we do our research in scientific journals but that does not explain everything." End Game - 2050? by Fred Harding      The facts speak for themselves. Already nature creaks beneath the strain of the overflowing sea of humanity. By most estimates, the oceans are dying, rain forests are shrinking, woodlands dwindling, and the countryside is being eaten up by urban sprawl and the ever-increasing demands for mobility for the love of the car.      Human population is expanding far beyond the long-term carrying capacity of the land, and the ever-increasing spectre of man-made pollution continues unabated, slowly but surely destroying the very habitat upon which he lives. The ozone layer is contracting so that harmful rays are ever increasing, while the global climate is showing worrisome signs of instability. Oil the foundation upon which the world's products and econemy depends is running out and global economic collapse in sight. And all roads lead to the year 2050 as the time of GREAT TRIBULATION ... The Answer To All There Is by Fred Harding PAPERBACK: TO BE PUBLISHED IN 2007:      As far back as I can remember I have been fascinated by History. As a young child my Uncle, Donald Harding, who died a few years ago, would take me to the museums in London, and describe the artifacts that we saw. At his home he had a collection of books about history, archaelogy and mythology and I would spend hours reading the wonders of the past, of empires rising and falling. of great men and their exploits. I particually enjoyed ancient history, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans in particualar.      As I grew my interest in the past continued unabated, but as my knowledge increased so did the questions. Time and time again, I seemed to get glimpses of things that were hidden, but as soon as I focused attention on these, they faded away. It was most odd, as was the fact that the further back in time I went, it was plain to see how little we know about our origins. This led me to new areas of research - evolution, religion and mythology, but still the question of who we were, what we were and why we existed at all eluded me. Yet I was convinced that somewhere in the writings of old the answer could be found, and so in the years that followed I accumulated research materials of all kinds, built up my collection of books so that my personal libary boasts over a thousand books, and then came the Internet. For the first time I could access materials from all over the world, ancient writings that I had read about but had not been able to obtain. The door was opened and I looked in, and "THE ANSWER TO ALL THERE IS" began to take shape and grow .... Planet's Future At Stake, U.N. Report Says      In 30 years, the Earth could look like a desert-strewn wasteland of urban slums, lose almost a quarter of its mammal species and leave people inhabiting large regions perishing from thirst and water-borne disease. Or, it could be stabilizing global warming, repairing damage to water resources and mitigating the worst effects of environmentally induced poverty.      According to a massive United Nations environmental study released yesterday, the planet is poised on a precipice, and time is running out for making tough political and economic choices that can pull it back from disaster. "The choices made today are critical for the forests, oceans, rivers, mountains, and other life-support systems upon which current and future generations depend, The Final Empire - The Collapse of Civilization and the Seed of the Future Regulation By William H. Koetke      Our generation is on the verge of the most profound catastrophe the human species has ever faced. Death threats to the living earth are coming from all sides. Water, sunlight, air and soil are all threatened.      We face planetary disaster. The destruction of the planetary life system has been ongoing for thousands of years and is now approaching the final apocalypse which some of us will see in our own lifetimes. Far from being a difficult and complex situation it is actually very simple, if one can understand and accept a few simple and fundamental propositions. "An Inconvenient Truth" Movie Trailer by Al Gore      Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.      If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. The Future of Food (Colour - 1 hr 28 min)      THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed about the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply

The Cancer Plague by Fred Harding      While the world's scientists debate and argue about Global Warming, and with good reason, something more dreadful is occurring that has greater far reaching consequences. Since the beginning of the 20th century, a plague unlike any other in history as been sweeping the world. The plague is CANCER, at it is slow, it is quiet and it is deadly. It has now reached pandemic proportions and yet it is almost a secret.      "After decades of misleading assurances of major progress in the war against cancer the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society in a stunning reversal admitted that the incidence of cancer is expected to double by 2050. In 2003 a WHO report stated that global cancer rates could increase by 50% to 15 million by 2020. But it is far worse than anyone thinks. Free Documentary Movies to Watch           The following documentary movies and trailers provide additional information to my book The Answer To All There Is. They are free, and in many cases are full length. Most are public domain. some have appeared on television and have been uploaded to Google Video and are displayed on this site, or links are provided to other movies displayed on other sites elsewhere.      NOTE: Not everything described in these movies reflect my views, but may contain information that is relevant to the theme of the aformenentioned book. There is nothing to download, just watch..... Titles include: Da Vinci Code Decoded The Occult History of the Third Reich Behind the Scenes of the World Wars Farenheight 9/11 Chechnya: The Dirty War The Future of Food Orwell Rolls in His Grave Who Wrote the Bible? And more..... Our Synthetic Environment By Lewis Herber      An over-all view of our synthetic environment, even if cursory and superficial, reveals a picture worse than that disclosed by the most exhaustive specialized investigations. Foods are sprayed not only with DDT but with a large assortment of inorganic and organic insecticides; they contain not only strontium-90 but additional radioisotopes created by man. A large part of the modern diet consists of highly processed foods to which questionable artificial materials have been added. READ ONLINE FOR FREE A Present for Life By WWF and Greenpeace      Hazardous chemicals that are used in everyday household products end up in the bodies of unborn children via the mother. This study, conducted for Greenpeace and WWFUK by TNO, analysed blood samples donated by a number of women and confirmed that hazardous chemicals are unwittingly passed from mother to child.      Previous studies had already reported the presence of hazardous chemicals in human blood and tissues and the ability of some chemicals to pass the placenta. This study further confirms that known or suspected hazardous chemicals from eight chemical groups are commonly present in umbilical cord blood. Vinyl Chloride - The Inside Story      Vinyl chloride is used to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC). PVC is used to make a variety of plastic products, including pipes, wire and cable coatings, and packaging materials.      The story of vinyl chloride is a tale of corporate deception in which chemical industry executives kept workers and government health officials in the dark about the debilitating and sometimes fatal consequences of working with the chemical. As evidence emerged over a 20 year period that vinyl chloride caused signature injuries such as disintegration of the bones in the fingers and then fatal liver cancer, and perhaps other cancers, the chemical industry engaged in an increasingly complex and coordinated plot to keep anyone from knowing the chemical's true hazards. There were virtually no limits to the deception.. ... The Chemical Industry's Bhopal Legacy By Gary Cohen      Bhopal has rightly been called the Hiroshima of the chemical industry. It not only tells the stark story of the human fall-out from a chemical factory explosion born of supreme negligence but offers up important lessons about the continuing failure of the chemical industry and government to address the security and public health threats posed by dangerous chemicals. By the morning of the catastrophe, more than 5,000 people were dead, while a half million more were injured'      Twenty two years later the abandoned factory site in Bhopal remains essentially the same. Sacks of unused pesticides lay strewn in storerooms; toxic waste litters the grounds and continues to leak into the neighborhood well water supply... Pollution: A life and death issue By Alex Kirby (BBC)      The World Health Organization (WHO) says 3 million people are killed worldwide by outdoor air pollution annually from vehicles and industrial emissions, and 1.6 million indoors through using solid fuel. Most are in poor countries.      Diseases carried in water are responsible for 80% of illnesses and deaths in developing countries, killing a child every eight seconds. Each year 2.1 million people die from diarrhoeal diseases associated with poor water.      Contaminated land is a problem in industrialised countries, where former factories and power stations can leave waste like heavy metals in the soil. It can also occur in developing countries, sometimes used for dumping pesticides. Agriculture can pollute land with pesticides, nitrate-rich fertilisers and slurry from livestock. And when the contamination reaches rivers it damages life there, and can even create dead zones off the coast, as in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Body Burden by Fred Harding      Scientists estimate that everyone alive today carries within her or his body at least 700 contaminants, most of which are man-made and have not been well studied (Onstot and others). This is true whether we live in a rural or isolated area, in the middle of a large city, or near an industrialized area. Because many chemicals have the ability to attach to dust particles and/or catch air and water currents and travel far from where they are produced or used, the globe is bathed in a chemical soup. ... Apocalypse Now: How Mankind is Sleepwalking to the End of the Earth By Geoffrey Lean      Floods, storms and droughts. Melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow. You don't believe it? Then, says Geoffrey Lean, read this... Apocalypse 2050 By Geoffrey Lean      Don't ever invite Eugene Linden to your party. The author and TIME contributor is a pleasant fellow, but his ideas about the future could have taken the fizz out of even the best champagne. Though Linden writes most often on the environment, he thinks about everything, and his new book, The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability, is a broadbrush look at life in the 21st century. What he sees is not pretty: if the economic depression and plagues don't get you, the floods and famines will... U.S. Rules Allow the Sale of Products Others Ban      Unlike the European Union, which uses a "precautionary principle" that prescribes protective steps whenever there is scientific evidence of risks to public health or the environment, the U.S. EPA relies on voluntary steps from the industries themselves.      The EPA has not attempted to ban any industrial compounds since its unsuccessful attempt to ban asbestos nearly two decades ago. Products legal to sell in the United States but not in Europe include toys and nail polishes made with solvents called phthalates, which are reproductive toxins; herbicides and insecticides, including atrazine, endosulfan and aldicarb; and electronic items such as Palm's Treo 650 smart phone and Apple's iSight camera, which contain lead components. Pesticides in Your Food      PAN UK has produced a new updated poster illustrating how much of our food is contaminated with pesticides. For example, 93% of the (non-organic) oranges in one study had residues, and 78% of apples. Even staple foods, such as bread, have traces of toxins. These are not occasional findings: they are routine. The health effects of chronic exposures to these chemicals can be serious: disorders found in studies to be associated with pesticides include Parkinson’s disease, cancer, suppression of endocrine function, kidney damage and neurobehavioural deficits in children. The poster displays current PAN UK campaign targets, and easy-to-understand explanations of key issues. The History of PCBs      PCB history is not pretty. As the timeline shows, the manufacturers and major users of PCBs knew by the 1930s and 1940s that PCBs caused serious health problems in their workers, and doctors advised them that other effects could be occurring as well. But this did not stop industries from producing and using PCBs, or from releasing PCBs into our environment, contaminating our public waterways, air, croplands, and wildlife. It appears from this PCB history that several companies also deliberately misled workers, customers, regulators and the public for many decades, allowing the PCB problem to spread and become much worse.... Deceit and Denial by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner      Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players, investigated untapped sources, and uncovered a bruising story of cynical and cruel disregard for health and human rights. This resulting exposé is full of startling revelations, provocative arguments, and disturbing conclusions all based on remarkable research and information gleaned from secret industry documents.      The evidence cannot be denied, so what do the chemical companies do? The have begun a concerted attack on the reputations of the two historians in order to try to discredit them......but the historians are fighting back! Danger at Sea: Our Changing Ocean by Fred Harding      According to the National Research Council (NRC) (63) there are, worldwide, more than 65,000 synthetic chemicals in use, approximately 10,000 of which have regular application. Many of these chemicals accumulate in the tissue of plants and animals that live in contaminated marine waters. An NRC report suggests that adequate information is available to determine risk assessment for only 2% of the chemicals entering the environment. Even less is known of the effects of the complex mixtures of contaminants that are now found within most living organisms Bulldozing REACH - the U.S Industry Attempts to Crush the EU Chemicals Regulation By Paulus Potterstraat      Chemicals in our environment cause cancer. This is the evidence that is piling up so if we can reduce the The EU's REACH proposal for improved regulation of chemicals has sparked the largest ever industry lobbying campaign in Europe with the Bush Admistration pulling the strings. ...