Thursday, April 04, 2002

The Problem of Too Many People Let us begin with the premise that the human population has exceeded the sustainable limits of Earth's natural resources. Let us further agree that we have achieved this enormous human population only by using our powerful human intelligence to exploit and rapidly consume most of the fossil fuels on our planet within 100 years. This is what (those of us who are waking up) are now calling  The Overpopulation-Fossil Fuel Depletion Crisis-Global Warming Crisis. ... What can we do ? ... We can restructure our lives. We can stop driving cars. We can move information instead of people. With our new powerful communication technology, we don't need automobiles, we don't need airplanes. We don't need mass transit. We can live locally and support our lives locally. We can take a look at what we need not what we what. It is time to grow up. Put away advertising. Put away the neutral way of consumerism. We humans can work together to solve our problems. We can stop having children NOW. Reproduction is not a right. It is a privilige. And, it is a privilige that belongs to Humanity as Community, not to Humanity as Individual. Neutrality is based on unlimited resources. In any limited environment, it must fail. Guess what ? It is failing. And, that failure is occuring right NOW in our lifetime!  (04/04/02) It's Even Worse Than It Appears A video of Dr Susan Solomon briefing a closed session of the world's top climate change scientists was obtained by the Australian Financial Review via a delegate who said the public should be told what the delegates have now gone home to tell their presidents and prime ministers. Dr Solomon said the ozone hole over Antarctica, and lesser ozone depletions over the Arctic, have now established a pattern in which vortices of extremely cold air are becoming trapped over the polar regions instead of performing their natural function of spreading to lower latitudes and cooling global weather systems. Dr Solomon led the 1986-87 research expedition to Antarctica that proved that chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, in aerosol sprays were accumulating above the poles and driving a complex chemical chain reaction that destroyed the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere. After hearing from Dr Solomon and other researchers, some delegates said they would advise their governments that the option of waiting for more evidence of climate change was being overtaken by the real thing. Outbreaks of extreme weather would take an unacceptable toll of human life, farm production and social infrastructure, including transport systems and buildings. (04/04/02) 9:25:00 AM

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