tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post7637153302842670198..comments2023-12-01T16:56:04.415+11:00Comments on Peak Energy: The population timebomb is a mythBig Gavhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682404837426502876noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-34790791416136915032011-02-07T20:22:53.918+11:002011-02-07T20:22:53.918+11:00It doesn't even look like they bothered with t...It doesn't even look like they bothered with those pesky <i>facts</i> like declining grain stores, increased energy and fertilizer costs, declining stores of rock phosphate and other mineral fertilizers or the extinction of major pelagic fisheries. They just cut right to the chase. <br /><br />There will be no population bomb because......we're just that special. <br /><br />Except we're not. Well, I am, but those people over there aren't and if they don't get themselves jobs I don't see why we should feed them. Which is where it all breaks down. Because hungry people fight.<br /><br />A growing world population requires us to not only get everything right but to get it just about perfect. Which is what we are currently failing at.Pangolinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-88496055259790955572011-02-03T03:52:50.829+11:002011-02-03T03:52:50.829+11:00It is a myth
If we lead and treated are world with...It is a myth<br />If we lead and treated are world with the same compassion and empathy we show our family, pets and friends... there would never be over population.<br /> <br />People who care:<br />Pick partners and plan families that cherish there resources and communities.<br /><br />It is really that simple. <br /><br />As a world:<br />Look at how we treat animals globally...<br />Would you do those things to your farm?<br /> <br />Look at how we ignore basic human rights and life preservation in nations we enable as our "labor" partners…<br />Would you treat your children or family this way?<br /> <br />Look at how we treat oceans and global water...<br />Would you treat your lake, stream or pond this way?<br /> <br />Look at how we treat global forests and land…<br />Would you treat your park or backyard this way? <br /><br />No we would not because most of us have a choice...<br />And when we do not make the right choice in our modern democracies we enact policies, laws and regulations to ensure people who are unable to understand or care enough have more than a moral obligation to do so.<br /><br />But there are nations who do not...<br />They have rich governments and vast resources yet enslave their people on less than $20 a week to “build their economies”. Forcing these people to do horrible things… not by choice, but by force, fear and basic survival.<br /> <br />Populating to increase workforce, not family;<br />Selling off natural resources to sell as commodities not as necessities;<br />Dumping the ravages of their unsustainable industrialization into the very life giving landscapes and habitat they need to survive; <br /> <br />Sound preachy? Judgmental? Us better than them?<br />Hardly, all great nations have made the same mistakes during the growth of democracy. And at the right point nearly all modern societies reach a population plateau based on care, education and a balance of resources.<br /> <br />We would never again treat our people, resources or environment like that but we expect the majority of the world too...when modern nations reached their “balance of resources”… they took advantage of impoverished and oppressed nations, leading them with the false pretense they would have equal prosperity someday with better leaders who never came.<br /><br />And it IS our fault.<br />It is our disassociation with that world that amplifies this condition. Watching them make the same environmental, energy, worker, wage and human right mistakes... decade after decade. Only opposing those who are not major trade players.<br /><br /><br />Sorry, for the empathy rant. <br />It is frustrating to watch the whole world continue to play the blame game of "to many of them and not enough us."<br /><br />Like the global warming chicken egg debate, the over population scare is simply a lake of global care. <br /><br />IF we cared for their families as ours<br />Worried about their land as ours<br /><br />Understood that their animals are ours<br /><br />And that all children are children...<br />we would be in a lot better shape.EHS Directorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11768405187596006599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-62448722965466221812011-02-01T11:33:21.252+11:002011-02-01T11:33:21.252+11:003,000 calories a day? No wonder there is an obesit...3,000 calories a day? No wonder there is an obesity problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-34550342044143406002011-01-31T06:49:59.959+11:002011-01-31T06:49:59.959+11:00Yes, well. One thing is certain, food prices are o...Yes, well. One thing is certain, food prices are on the up and are one reason behind the revolts in tunisia and egypt and ...SPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12467929366702367892noreply@blogger.com