'We Are Running Out of Environment'

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.

Randy Dutton of WA 3:23PM July 27, 2009

I'm glad I see the responses about his "qualifications". I was about to respond the same - search on his name and you might find his picture next to the definition of "alarmist opportunist". He was absolutely wrong about over population 40 years ago (which is not mentioned here), so why would we buy his book now? Oh, yeah! Because it's about another nature "crisis", or a continuation of an old one.

A few years ago, I spent an educational vacation in the historic triangle in Virginia, Williamsburg/Jamestown/Yorktown. It struck me at the time as we guided through an area where battles were fought, and the paintings of the events showed rolling fields. The guide also commented on how you can't really see the hill or valley where some events happened due to all the trees that grow there now. "What?! You mean all this was once tobacco farms and such?"

In my area of Arizona, I'm always struck by the lack of the sights and sounds of birds while riding or hiking in the desert. They're there, but very far and few between - probably the way it naturally is in the desert (see, there are fewer large indigenous trees in the desert…) Doves, quail, cactus wren... But a few miles away in my own neighborhood, All you can hear are birds - singing in the large trees everyone has planted in their yards. Sure, the concrete probably outweighs the amount of green in the neighborhoods, but why is it when you read a story on what's gone, don't you ever read about what's been added or replaced? There's an equation here, somewhere…..

Every fly in a plane across the US and look down? Do you see one vast metropolis from coast to coast or….what? I see mostly green and brown. Did you know that if you gathered every person in the world together, and gave each one a 2 foot by 2 foot area to stand on, they'd cover an area about the size of Jacksonville, FL? (Probably a little different now, this was based on 1997 book my Marilyn Vos Savant.). Sure, we utilize more land than what we live in, with roads, malls, industry, agriculture, etc., but are we really near the limit of land use for the whole world? If so, I guess this speaks even more for the need to spread out to other planets. I vote Paul and his wife get the first one to keep straight.

Junk_Science_Skeptic of AZ 7:15PM April 28, 2009

yawn....Man will not impact Mother Earth....we will not be here long enough to cause any real permanant damange.

Fear and consume....fat lazy people....

shame really that I need to respond to this...

Fear and consume, Fear and consume

more media "boring' crap....media misleading the public...again, still.....

gosh, why even respond to such junk !

me of PA 12:24PM April 10, 2009

Ah, yes, "More, more, more!" "God will provide." The good Pope is not a mathatician!

How nice it would be if we would leave more room for animals, and nature! Fresh water, and good air!

The question ow is "Which nation will be the first to polute itself off the earth?"

Ah, don't worry! You can always come visit us in Hawaii to find out what real fresh air, and clean water are like! As for food, there is always "Soylent Green!" And then to run our cars, why we can use "Soylent biofeul!" Ah, this months travel is furnished to us courticy of the fat layers of our newly departed Uncle Joe! Thanks uncle Joe! Hmm? How long before we can fill the tank with Auntie's Susy's layers?

Ah, yes, "more, more, more!"

Dear old Uncle Jim

Jim Curtice of HI 4:46PM August 11, 2008