Willandra wrote:Excellent comment Joey, and highlighting again the fact that climate change is an economy based 'science' not an environmentally based 'science'.
We are asked to believe that the best scientific brains in the world are dreadfully worried that carbon emmissions are likely to cause our world to end, yet not one of them has made a comment about the fact that the world population is expected to continue doubling every 40 years. It doesn't matter how many "50/50 by 2020" type policies are promoted, if the worlds population is to double every 40 years anthropogenic climate change would never be beaten. If the scientists were conscience driven, or real fear driven instead of dollar driven they would clearly be making noises about population control.
However, it should be obvious to everyone that spewing pollution of any kind into our environment is a dumbo action. We DO need ways of stopping our pollution, but we need real solutions that actually reduce emmissions, not the ineffective dollar-driven solutions we are being offered.
Take the solar panels on domestic roofs program. Imagine if all those panels were in one spot - the economies of scale would make it vastly more cost effective and there would be vastly less embodied energy. However, the current arrangement is very visible and thus we can all feel warm and fuzzy about how our government is helping to save the world.
As to wind farms, less said the better, but until someone invents a viable way of storing electricity these things are complete duds, but again very visible to the punters and very lucrative to the big end of town.
Bah, we are being conned!
Brilliant post Willandra !
Population growth alone will ensure that the worlds combined efforts at reducing carbon emissions will be negated 10 fold.
Not that it is important because we have no idea what all these CO2 emissions are doing if anything except making people more wealthy.
