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On Feb 6, 2011, at 4:53 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > But we have stopped having children. You should really look at the > demographics. It's the major cause of an ageing population. > > Population growth is probably the biggest cause of human induced climate > change. > > Thanks for the link, love the subtitle, always nice to know where the biases > are at the start. > > > > On 2/6/2011 5:02 PM, Bob W wrote: >>> I would be much happier if the Indians and Chinese became rich enough >>> to >>> buy those cars, they'd stop having so many children and relieve a lot >>> of >>> the stress on all the worlds systems. Rich peoples have fewer children >>> all other things being equal. Actually China is a strange case. Their >>> one child policy has caused a couple of counter intuitive but very real >>> problems, the Chinese have a surplus of young men, boys children being >>> preferred over girls in Chinese society, and demographically a >>> population that's ageing faster than almost any other in Asia. It will >>> be interesting to see what happens there if I live long enough. >> that simplistic argument assumes that each individual in countries such as >> China, India and African countries contributes to climate change in equal >> measure with individuals in the West, and this is not so. The impact on the >> environment would be greater if people in the West stopped having children. >> We pollute far more per capita than do many multiples of people in the other >> parts of the world. In fact, the main responsibility for pollution lies with >> rich people, it is not a population issue, but a wealth issue. >> >> http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2560 >> >> Population growth is a problem for all sorts of reasons, but climate change >> isn't one of them. >> >> B >> >> >> > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
