RE: The Need to Breed
August 19, 2012 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2012 at 1:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Right, and I'll make this short and simple by repeating myself...
Fewer people are already responsible for greater emissions. Fewer than an average of one is zero..a counter-intuitive goal...and last I checked, we polluting few were also the ones looking to fix this problem in the first place.
China is the one example of a country contributing to both the overpopulation issue and the global warming issue -and they have a population control program.
In a "perfect world" where resource use and subsequent pollution were distributed evenly then sure, fewer people would mean lower emissions. We do not live in such a world. Population control appears to be unsuccessful at curbing pollution via the example of China....I use this as an example of a place where population control is a reality and yet the problems of both overpopulation and pollution continue unabated. If there were some direct result on global pollution (and by extension global warming via population or population control than it would be difficult to understand why the US (small fraction) contributes so much, or why China (with it's controls) is right there with us....unless....the issue is something other than population. This is the crux of every objection I have.
-Population control as a solution to our global warming issue: Two countries that already engage in very different forms of population control are massive contributors to the global warming pie-
What, precisely, is weird about my mentioning this?
Fewer people are already responsible for greater emissions. Fewer than an average of one is zero..a counter-intuitive goal...and last I checked, we polluting few were also the ones looking to fix this problem in the first place.
China is the one example of a country contributing to both the overpopulation issue and the global warming issue -and they have a population control program.
In a "perfect world" where resource use and subsequent pollution were distributed evenly then sure, fewer people would mean lower emissions. We do not live in such a world. Population control appears to be unsuccessful at curbing pollution via the example of China....I use this as an example of a place where population control is a reality and yet the problems of both overpopulation and pollution continue unabated. If there were some direct result on global pollution (and by extension global warming via population or population control than it would be difficult to understand why the US (small fraction) contributes so much, or why China (with it's controls) is right there with us....unless....the issue is something other than population. This is the crux of every objection I have.
-Population control as a solution to our global warming issue: Two countries that already engage in very different forms of population control are massive contributors to the global warming pie-
What, precisely, is weird about my mentioning this?
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