where's your argument? When faced with some actual numbers which contradict you, all you can do is blow methane out of your fat ass, making the atmosphere unpleasant for the rest of us.
B > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > P. J. Alling > Sent: 06 February 2011 22:53 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Protesting global warming > > 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.
