06-08-2016, 04:27 PM
Climate change is caused by people.
People create CO2 as an inevitable consequence of living the lifestyles of human beings.
There is nothing inherently wrong with how people live. People have always done the things that people are now doing; farming, herding livestock, starting fires, making stuff, etc. There has been no radical technological change in the basic equation that people = CO2. They just emit more of it now as a consequence of living more comfortable, energy intensive lives. There is really nothing wrong with that either, within reason.
The problem is that over the last century there has been a sudden, massive and historically unprecedented increase in the number of people in the world. Massive economic output is devoted entirely to expanding human population and different ethnicities and ideologies attempt to out-breed and displace one another via demographics. This has resulted in failed states and mass migrations that are accelerating. A graph of global human population goes vertical around the year 1900. If current trends continue, the earth will be a sphere of human flesh expanding outward at the speed of light in only a few thousand years.
Unfortunately, no climate change mitigation strategy addresses the issue of human overpopulation. It is a Taboo subject. Approaching climate change as a CO2 problem is like approaching deforestation as a chainsaw problem.
A world of up to a Billion people could live the current lifestyle of the USA, Europe and NE Asia indefinitely, with reasonable constraints on use of petroleum and coal and expansion of Solar. The coal and oil could last indefinitely and geologic processes would sequester carbon as fast as it was emitted without impacting global systems.
A population of 7+ Billion is headed for Collapse and mass-extinction. There exists no technology or lifestyle based mitigation strategy that can deal with those numbers. Politicians are lying. Turning the Earth into a human feedlot will wreck the climate and make Earth uninhabitable.
This is a problem that could be fixed in two generations if people would voluntarily limit reproduction. Unfortunately, those who practice birth control will simply be overrun by those who do not. That is what is happening in Europe and the US mainland.
I'm old and I got to see the last of the wild, old world. Some of the last tattered shreds of it is here. I feel so sorry for the young. Basically, we are totally screwed.
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You can't fix Samsara.
People create CO2 as an inevitable consequence of living the lifestyles of human beings.
There is nothing inherently wrong with how people live. People have always done the things that people are now doing; farming, herding livestock, starting fires, making stuff, etc. There has been no radical technological change in the basic equation that people = CO2. They just emit more of it now as a consequence of living more comfortable, energy intensive lives. There is really nothing wrong with that either, within reason.
The problem is that over the last century there has been a sudden, massive and historically unprecedented increase in the number of people in the world. Massive economic output is devoted entirely to expanding human population and different ethnicities and ideologies attempt to out-breed and displace one another via demographics. This has resulted in failed states and mass migrations that are accelerating. A graph of global human population goes vertical around the year 1900. If current trends continue, the earth will be a sphere of human flesh expanding outward at the speed of light in only a few thousand years.
Unfortunately, no climate change mitigation strategy addresses the issue of human overpopulation. It is a Taboo subject. Approaching climate change as a CO2 problem is like approaching deforestation as a chainsaw problem.
A world of up to a Billion people could live the current lifestyle of the USA, Europe and NE Asia indefinitely, with reasonable constraints on use of petroleum and coal and expansion of Solar. The coal and oil could last indefinitely and geologic processes would sequester carbon as fast as it was emitted without impacting global systems.
A population of 7+ Billion is headed for Collapse and mass-extinction. There exists no technology or lifestyle based mitigation strategy that can deal with those numbers. Politicians are lying. Turning the Earth into a human feedlot will wreck the climate and make Earth uninhabitable.
This is a problem that could be fixed in two generations if people would voluntarily limit reproduction. Unfortunately, those who practice birth control will simply be overrun by those who do not. That is what is happening in Europe and the US mainland.
I'm old and I got to see the last of the wild, old world. Some of the last tattered shreds of it is here. I feel so sorry for the young. Basically, we are totally screwed.
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You can't fix Samsara.