Re: Global Warming
Please forgive my tardy response, mate.
Been side-tracked by the cat-fight in another thread.
You are clearly passionate and well-informed re the Global Warming issue.
Of course, you are right that the population explosion is a major concern.
It is a worry precisely because (in my ever humble opinion) you are
not right that
"
only a microscopic percentage of that 7 billion is actually dispersing pollutants into the air".
Two centuries ago, that would have been true of the vast majority of the planet's small population.
In today's developing world - not so.
Take China (or India or Indonesia etc etc).
Back then, a small ruling class - the rest living off their rice paddy with maybe a house cow or a pig.
Now, every "peasant" is part of the consumer society - massive housing blocks, lighting and heating, cars, flat-screen TVs, mobile phones, processed foods, - before we even start on the massive
military use of non-renewable and polluting resources.
We might
think that only a relative few are "
dispersing pollutants" but collectively it cannot be anything other than enormous.
One tiny example - research the amount of plastics going into our oceans every single day.
These come from all those people - billions of shopping bags etc etc - every single day.
And even if the population growth somehow magically stopped,
that consumption of power and goods will only increase.
By all means, focus on reducing that rate of growth.
But profit-driven industry will never seriously address polluting issues unless there are 'carrot and stick' measures introduced.