An even more inconvenient truth...
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:17 pm
I watched "An Inconvenient Truth" at the weekend.
A number of observations/questions:-
Does the additional evaporation balance or exceed the additional melt-water from the land-based ice-shelfs etc, or vice-versa?
Does the addition of 4+ billion extra people, all consuming oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide, contribute to global warming?
Are the new viruses simply nature's way of controlling the population?
We have artificially placed ourselves at the top of the food chain - ideally should we not be re-establishing those animals above us?
Which brings me to the "even more inconvenient truth" - the world cannot sustain this level of population, and we should do something to reduce it.
e.g. by stopping trying to cure every disease out there, dis-incentivising having children, following in China's line and limiting child-allowances?
Now that really WOULD be a brave message to give....
I view this as a little like making redundancies in a company - it's often a very good thing on a macro level (protecting the remaining work-force), but horrible on the micro level, making each individual redundant....
Effrectively we're trying to artificially control the world population to cope with the number of people we have...........
Thoughts?
J
A number of observations/questions:-




Which brings me to the "even more inconvenient truth" - the world cannot sustain this level of population, and we should do something to reduce it.
e.g. by stopping trying to cure every disease out there, dis-incentivising having children, following in China's line and limiting child-allowances?
Now that really WOULD be a brave message to give....
I view this as a little like making redundancies in a company - it's often a very good thing on a macro level (protecting the remaining work-force), but horrible on the micro level, making each individual redundant....
Effrectively we're trying to artificially control the world population to cope with the number of people we have...........
Thoughts?
J