All species expand as much as resources allow and predators, parasites, and physical conditions permit. When a species is introduced into a new habitat with abundant resources that accumulated before its arrival, the population expands rapidly until all the resources are used up.”
- David Price, Energy and Human Evolution
Then they die.
The Copenhagen conference of Climate change has degenerated into chaos.
The G77 states, led by African countries want money to “help them deal with climate change”. (They will be handed $3 billion in the vain hope that they stop deforestation.)
The Anthropogenic (Man made) Global Warming (AGW) faction is slightly more muted nowadays than the AGW “deniers”. Polls show that the public at large is divided about 50-50: one half believing that AGW is a myth.
Destroyed climate data seems to tell the world that the Global Warming Mullahs will do absolutely ANYTHING to prove their case and, as personified by Al Gore, they seem to think that their case can be proved by using selective data. (By the way, when is Al Gore going to return his Nobel Prize?)
The Americans are dragging their feet because it is likely that in reality, they know that the “Man-Made” bit of Man-Made Global Warming is a fiction.
The Danes’ organisational skills have clearly demonstrated that they may be good at producing bacon but their conference-organising skills would make the Italians blush. There’s nothing less edifying than watching riot police hitting demonstrators with truncheons – that always seems to signify that somewhere, an argument has been lost.
Professors from MIT are appearing on television and, quite frankly, mocking the whole concept of Carbon Dioxide as ” the Devil”.
In short, the Global Warming cause has been set-back ten years, yet there will be “agreements” but no legally-binding action – which is pointless anyway because there can never be any sanctions should, for instance, a country like China decide to ignore the whole thing and carry-on ploughing its own lonely industrial furrow.
The civilised murmurings and inaction of Kyoto are just a hazy memory and no doubt another meeting will be organised in another ten years by which time, according to some, we will all be sporting perma-tans and living in houses on stilts.
It seems that as usual, politicians are attempting to treat the symptom and not the cause. When discussing Risk, one is always looking for the Root Cause. For instance, the Herald of Free Enterprise did not sink just because someone left the doors open. The Root Cause was the fact that because of the company insisting on a too-quick “turnaround” time, the man who was supposed to close the doors was asleep because he had been working solidly for two days. The root cause was the company’s turnaround policy.
9/11 happened because two aircraft ploughed into the Twin Towers but the root cause was American foreign policy.
So what is the root cause of too much Carbon Dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere? On the face of it, it is the fault of industry, the consumer society, cars, deforestation etc. However the root cause is much simpler. Once you ask yourself WHY are there so many cars? Why do we need to cut down forests in order to grow more cereal crops? Why does China need to produce quite so many goods?
Once we have asked the right questions, the answer is disarmingly straightforward.
The world’s population is growing at a rate of approximately 77 million per year or over 200,000 per day. For instance, during the week of the Copenhagen conference, the world’s population has increased by about 1.5 million.
Although the population growth-rate is on the decrease in many areas, areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East are experiencing accelerating population growth.(Many G77 members)
There are now 6.8 billion people on Earth and by 2050, this will increase to over 9 billion. More consumers needing more production, generating more pollutants.
The ROOT CAUSE of Man’s small contribution to Global Warming is population growth.
The solution to the global warming crisis may be as simple as the humble condom.
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