SHOULD WE WAKE UP ? Resource problem?
The oil peak is easy to overcome since energy will be the easiest to replace since we know well how to harvest now renewable energies...
But what about when food production, biodiversity and biofuels will be in direct competition at the edge ?
What will be when the resources of copper get really expensive ?
What are doing about water shortages ?
What will happen at a time when we need to pool to overcome problems and national(ist) governments are growing increasingly egoistic pushed by the frustration of their citizens ? Can´t we learn from the wars fought for natural resources ?
Where is the world heading with the US government, Chinese government and islamism in the Middle East (all 4 of them not really oriented toward international cooperation) ?
Answer:
you made some very good points ,
here is my version read Plan B ,,there is a new edition they tell me
Agriculture and expanding populations and its effects are the planets biggest enemies
the main disagreements are as to who or what is responsible
some still believe that nothing is wrong ,they will also be convinced when the price of food and beer hits the roof ,because of third world problems in food production and Global potable water shortage
as for the rest of us ,
can we do something about it?
I dont think so ,but we can behave more responsibly in out behaviour towards the Environment ,maybe we can buy some time
are We responsible ?
or is it God who wants to punish?
or is it Gaia who wants to clean some parasitic infestation?
who cares ? that is not important any more
WHAT IS -is that we are gonna be in trouble
The Earth has many problems because of man
this is undeniable ,how much we are responsible for Global warming is debateble ,But there is a definate change in Global temperatures that is affecting nature in a bad way.
this text only covers some aspects of Climate change ,i.e.effects of deforestation and subsequent man made desertification ,because of irresponsible farming using chemicals ,over pumping carbon aquiferrs,over grazing and deforestation
water and air polution such as caused by
industrial contamination ,the contaminating effects of the cities(the internal combustion engine) ,are other stories,
and all of these are also man made ,such as the high industrial chimneys pumping contamination into the clouds and the burning of tires,some of this polution has been found in the ice in the polar regions
there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms
the thinner ozone layer helps to speed this up.and this is caused mainly by air polution ,also as a result of mans actions
in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification and some have died as a result,
And now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature ,
vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain
90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.
In the Netherlands bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain."
wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent
we are witness to a mass exstinction ,for the first time since the dinosaurs, of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years. each years, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.
everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor things any more.
,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and most of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were few desserts.
collectively this planet is drying up ,
each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss
and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities.
Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people, are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.
This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.
The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.
Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million
In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .
RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter
here are a 100 ways to help
http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p... Source(s) http://www.greenpeace.org/international/...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...
Forgive me for saying this And give me poor ratings if you must but
I guess some people need to die. My apologies to all I offfend.
There is just not enough stuff for all of the people
In some ways you are correct, but I think the key to solving the problem is really just conservation. Especially in America so much is wasted. If everyone would stop being so greedy and just turn off the water while they brushed thier teeth, and bought energy star appliances, and drove fuel efficent vehicals, etc. this problem could greatly be helped. I am currently living in America, but I grew up in a third world country, so I know what it is like to live without alot of convinences, and I also see the amny blessings america has, but I am sickened by the waste. It is my opinion that if every american spent a few strate months living in a third world country they would completly change, and become much less wasteful. America is a very blessed country, and I am not against modern convienences or against wealth, but I am against waist.
In fact we or the government should really wake up in these things, our population is increasing in a staggering rate, the Effect? the resources will decrease, the reason why the governments are not focused to cooperation is that they have their own ways, maybe they think like they overpower one another, but if they use their power to good use, it can be a major impact on all political problems, especially our world, sounds to me that it is really the time to cooperate, not just us but all of the people here..
I'm guessing from this question that you are fairly young and thus don't realize that this type of talk has been around for a long time. A few centuries ago, Malthus called economics the dismal science because he saw no way that the earth (he actually ment Europe ) could support continued population growth. About 30 years ago, a similar belief was advanced in "Limits to Growth" In this case, everything was supposed to go to hell in about 1975. Obviously, neither of these catastophies came to pass, and I doubt that this current panic will prove to be anything either.
Well, that's a lot of things to worry about.
But thankfully, it isn't up to you, and it isn't up to a single government, to figure out. The free market system will actually come up with solutions to these resource constaint issues.
I know the socialists among us have a tough time understanding the role of the free market, but it's true.
If you doubt this, just go look at the famous bet between the environmentalist Paul Ehrlich and the economist Julian Simon. See for example:
http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/people...
Wake up! You are having the same dream that has been going on since man could write history. The Aztecs are a good example of a nature correcting a progressive civilization.
Water shortage is possible but again nature will do its inevitable correction and eliminate the less hardy of the species (any species).
The world is headed in the same direction that it has always been going in - the meek shall indeed inherit the earth.
So wake up, stop whining and start doing something to make this a better place for the meek to inherit.
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