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November 23 Fix one problem ,watch most of the others get manageableI've been saying since I was in my thirties that human overpopulation is the world's foremost problem. Too many people, not enough resources to feed and house and give healthcare to all of them means wars, famines and the other horsemen too. Not the cause but a big contributor to all this is the religious authorities who say abortion is wrong. You can read my reasoning about abortion elsewhere in my blog, but if you'd like to see a great exploration of the overpopulation problem there's an episode in the original Star Trek series about a world where the people "Love life!" so much that their planet had become a living hell. "The Mark of Gideon" Here's an additional comment, either from a person who thinks like the people of Gideon, or by someone speaking sarcastically, I'm not sure which... January 29 The "Tipping Point": is it too late to reverse global warming?The point of no return for radical change in the world's climate may soon be passed, if it hasn't already gone by.
This notion is based on the fact that the world is getting warmer faster than scientists had predicted.
What makes them think it would be irreversible is, among other things, our inability to replace the atmosphere's ozone layer once it's gone. The ozone layer reflects a lot of the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun back into space.
Ozone layer loss could have worse consequences than increased incidence of skin cancers in humans. Have you heard about the mass die-offs of certain forests in Alaska due to an unprecedented increase in the numbers of bark beetles? Have you heard how some species of Amazon rainforest frogs have become extinct due to an epidemic of a skin fungus? Both of these events have occurred very abruptly and recently. The common thread is that warmer climate triggered the overgrowth of certain life-forms, to the destruction of others.
What if mankind's ability to feed itself is adversely affected by such a change? Like rice cultivation, for instance? Rice depends on cyanobacteria on its' roots to be able to acquire certain nutrients. Cyanobacteria is susceptible to damage by ultraviolet light.
"Skeptics" disagree with these concerns. I put quotes around that word, because to my mind their skepticism originates not from a primary desire to know truth, but from economic self-interest.
Have they considered what happens to their ability to play "Monopoly" if famine and disease (and then war) overwhelm our planet? December 19 Last time Earth was this hot was 650,000,000 years agoScientists say about 650 million years ago there was a dramatic reduction in living things on this planet during a period of rapid warming of the climate.
The current average temperature is the highest it has been since that time.
Has it occurred to those who debate whether the current warming trend results from air pollution or from a natural cycle that we may be having BOTH? We may have just picked a bad time to have an industrial revolution, and to overpopulate the planet with our species... |
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