'We Are Running Out of Environment'
Population expert Paul Ehrlich says we must see the links in our planet's ills
The international community is starting work on replacing the Kyoto Protocol, which was intended to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. never ratified it, and other countries haven't upheld their pledges. Is there any reason to be optimistic this time?
If there is going to be any real success in the international talks, it is going to have to come from the world's publics speaking up. It is beginning to dawn on them that there could be huge problems in the future. In California, we've had a record dry spring. When I was in Australia two years ago, there was no agriculture in New South Wales. I saw huge road trains full of sheep going to the abattoirs to be slaughtered because they didn't have anything left to graze on. There were no crops growing. Climate change is a symptom of a systemic failure to understand that humanity is wrecking its environment.
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Ignorance is bliss (ignoring is too, I guess)
There are a lot of enlightened commentators here. The main theme I am sensing is, "ignore the fear monger and we'll all die and it won't matter anyway". Very zen. The intelligence of the remarks and the evidence presented by these individuals is similarly outstanding. Lots of forest in Nova Scotia, Greenland was green in the 1600's, the sun will red-giant in 2 billion years. Wow, there definitely isn't a problem with the world ecology as long as there are forests in Nova Scotia and since all life as we know it will be gone in 2 billion years.
Thanks for your opinions but I'll stick with living a conservative lifestyle with as little ecological impact as possible. I tend to believe the evidence presented by millions of educated scientist all over the world that have collected millions of pieces of evidence and the not the BS doled out by money grubbing corporations maintaining the status quo and enlightened individuals pointing out irrelevant observations.
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Ecopoliticians part of the problem
Ecopoliticians are part of the problem. They mandate biofuels that ultimately increase global warming gas effect by increasing N2O emissions (298X worse than CO2), yet focus mostly on CO2 as the problem. Their land use polices ultimately increase methane production over CO2 release yet methane is 25X worse than CO2 as a GWG. They promote alternative energy solutions that take more energy to make and are less efficient than traditional energy sources. They force America not to tap our own oil, and force us to import it from our adversaries, and it increases total transportation pollution. They decry CO2, which is a life-essential gas, and ignore the health threatening ozone created by using ethanol, as well as the repair and replacement necessary from ethanol caused corrosion. They've force US mining of rare earth metals to cease, making us hostage to China for thie high-technology component. They force American producers to shut down domestic production and move it overseas, where pollution controls are less stringent. And they totally ignore the tens of billions of pounds of aerosol pollutants emitted by Asian producers.
Let's get real. Shift production back to America and overeall global pollution will be reduced. Quit preaching eugenics and population control, and focus on adapatation to a changing environment. The Earth changes, so must we. Want to have more food for a growing population? Allow CO2 to increase since plants grow faster in a CO2 enriched environment and in 540 million years of geological recordes, there has been no nexus between CO2 and temperatures. Reduce infrastructure construction and costs, and improve education, by promoting online public education. Implement real tort reform and make industry and government more efficient.
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