Comments on: Prescription for the Planet – Part I

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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:23:31 +0000

[...] on this general topic, including ‘Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air‘ and ‘Prescription for the Planet‘ (kicking off my nuclear education in earnest), followed by various technical analyses, [...]

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Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:35:00 +0000

[...] Prescription for the Planet – Part I [...]

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:37:32 +0000

Another prescription for saving life as we know it and the planet as a fit place for habitation by our children and coming generations could be to focus more of our attention on the global challenges presented to the human family by the overpopulation of Earth by the human species.

One of the world’s finest scientists, Dr. James E. Hansen says, “Tell Barack Obama the truth – the whole truth” about human-driven climate destabilization.

Perhaps here and now, we will find that other great scientists, the likes of Jim Hansen and John Holdren, will speak out loudly, clearly and often to tell Barack Obama the truth – the whole truth about the apparently unforeseen and unfortunately unwelcome scientific research of human population dynamics as essentially similar to the population dynamics of other species; about absolute global human population numbers as a function of the world’s food supply; about human population numbers being determined by food availability; and about the daunting threats potentially posed to the family of humanity and life as we know it, even in these early years of Century XXI, resulting from the skyrocketing growth of human population numbers worldwide.

For repeated references to the good science of Russell Hopfenberg, Ph.D., and David Pimentel, Ph.D., please click on the links below. Comments from one and all are invited.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/content.html?contentid=1176
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php

By: tidal

tidal — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:26:28 +0000

It's probably too late if the book has already gone to print, but the chart on page 17 of the excerpt is seriously messed up. The y-axis is all wrong, and I suspect the title should be CO2 "concentrations", not emissions.... Hopefully the CO2 ppmv concentrations in 1850 were not zero! Else we got some real 'splaining to do! I'll try to contact the author directly.

By: Geoff Russell

Geoff Russell — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:30:49 +0000

Cheap abundant energy will only solve some of the storm of problems which 6.7 going on 9 billion people are creating with their push for “more development”. Running out of oil is an obvious issue, but one that might indeed be solved with electric vehicles and IFR electricity. But, probably the toughest problem will be soil shortages. You can’t eat money and growing food needs more than forest of free kilojoules. David Montgomery’s “Dirt” gives a little hope that we can survive “peak fertiliser”, but only if we can move people out of the city and into farming — not an easy ask!

Currently natural gas drives fertiliser production. Cheap energy, on its own may not be enough.

I’ve got Blees on order too!

By: wilful

wilful — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:48:27 +0000

M. Simon, your understanding of climate change is equivalent to your understanding of development economics.

Barry, I’ve read the first chapter, and your review, and I’m left hanging – what’s the solution, where is this going?

[Stay tuned - Where is this going? is revealed in Chapters 4 & 5, and then the 'art of the possible' is discussed in subsequent chapters]

By: Alexander Ač

Alexander Ač — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:04:33 +0000

Dear Simon,

please, be serious, global warming is *NOT* decelerating:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/01/uncertainty-noise-and-the-art-of-model-data-comparison/

“Population is growing faster in the undeveloped parts of the world. The obvious answer is more development.” – how many people at a standard of US or EU people can Earth sustain? Give me a number and then, please, read Jared Diamond – Collapse (2005)

best,

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:57:18 +0000

with regard to comment #1, I know that there were predictions that global warming would take a holiday until 2015, but they have been adequately addressed elsewhere (e.g. at www.realclimate.org). For the record, the authors of the paper that made that prediction did not accept the bet, which shows how much faith they have in their own claims. That aside, I'm very much looking forward to the rest of the series about this book, thank you Barry!

By: slim

slim — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:05:02 +0000

Thanks for the precis!

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:37:37 +0000

Global warming is currently decelerating. Even the head of the IPCC say we are in a cooling phase at least until 2015. And if the sunspots don’t come back soon it may be longer. Some solar guys are predicting a drop of 1 to 2 deg C in global temperatures.

http://spaceweather.com/

Second the rich are not stealing from the poor. The rich are using the materials they BUY from the poor to use them and develop ever more efficient ways to use the doing more with less. The net result – every one gets richer.

We are not in the zero sum game you imagine.

Population is growing faster in the undeveloped parts of the world. The obvious answer is more development.

Yep. Population is expected to grow 50% by 2050. You then leave off the rest of that statement: after that it is expected to decline.

Well any way here is something to cheer you up:

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