Some people won't see logic and the result thereof for all the tea in China. My Alabama grandfather told my grandmother not to look through her reading glasses too often or she would wear them out. Do you expect people like this to understand even elementary reasoning?
We do? Well, don't count me as one of those advocates. How about wind, solar and nuclear power? There are discoveries yet to be made. I remember making LEDs in our Solid State Devices lab in college. We thought they were only good for displaying one color because it would be impossible to make any other coler. Now, they make LED TVs and they are excellent. They also use very little power. By the way, an LED is just a reverse biased diode in a silicon wafer.
The population is growing exponentially. There is no way the earth can sustain this kind of growth. Recycling and using green enegry won't do shit if there isnt aggressive population control. It took over 200,000 years of human history for the world's population to reach 1 billion and only 200 years more to reach 7 billion. We will have 20 billion people on earth faster than you think.
All those extra people are causing the gravity of the sun to pull the Earth closer to it just like too many troops will cause Guam to tip over. I should run for congress.
Well, we're never going to start exterminating people. We can, in fact, support a much larger population if we just start thinking. Wind, solar, nuclear, hydroponic ponds, etc. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/01/11/2EF3E74F00000578-0-image-a-12_1448968348698.jpg
We won't, but the Chinese will eventually. But we will all be Chinese. No, we cannot support a much larger population. If Climate Change is occurring, the power generated has to be increased exponentially while having a reduced net carbon footprint. And that doesn't even take into account things like waste, food consumption, pollution, etc.
Global warming/Climate change is an illogical argument, it only separates the two parties. I personally find climate change to be the more illogical argument, since it is used solely as weapon to try to discredit the opposition rather than a format to engage them in any serious discussion on the subject matter. If people truly believe in climate change, why is it that none of them are putting forth a plan to halt said climate change?
Have you seen how Scotland has started producing electricity for tidal changes? Then there's hydro-thermal which is virtually limitless. Electric cars, plenty of power to desalinize seawater and pump it inland to irrigate a hell of a lot more land. Even natural gas is a huge improvement over coal. And with coal you get that filthy air, coal mine cafe ins, and black lung disease. My grandfather had black lung disease from mining coal in Alabama. I think he got a whopping $30 /month in the mid 60s. That might have been what killed him. Hard to tell, he liked to brawl, never lost a fight, he smoked plenty of unfiltered cigarettes, drank Alabama moonshine and ate a lot of fat back and a rural Southern diet rich in fat and fried foods. No, coal is no good. Only an estimated 50,000 miners left and they're getting black lung disease and dying a horrific death.
If the population triples, do you think the power output will triple as well, while actually reducing the net carbon impact? IF the population triples, do you think we are able to reduce total C02 levels for what they are now (with only 1/3 of the future population)? By using ocean waves and wind farms? This is only the next 50 years. The next few hundred years, how many people do you think will be here?
Sorry, there is no way 20 billion people will have a smaller carbon footprint than 7 billion people. To believe so is simply delusional
There is no way we get to 20 billion people without an airborne virus wiping out the bulk of them....nature does some house cleaning on it's own...it's arrogant to think humans control everything that's going to happen. The strain on the food sources and resources in general would cause massive wars....leading to anarchy and tribalism surrounded by destruction.....I've seen all these movies...volcanos, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, drought, disease....buckle up! Los Angeles will be ground zero for the zombie apocalypse...you being a foodie, won't turn out well when it comes down! Plenty of crazies will eat each other when they get hungry....this is why you buy lots of ammo now
If global warming is some conspiracy theory just wait until your neighbors go back to burning all their garbage in barrels in the back yard....take a deep breath! that's the smell of domination!
The rich California environmentalist leaves his swanky LA office to attend a climate change meeting and walks though shit, needles and garbage on the sidewalk and could care less.
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