CPT Asshole

Global warming & why Al Gore is wrong

No one has figured out how to address the real problem of global warming. Before any problem can be solved, one must first identify the problem. In the case of global warming, it has been mentioned, but buried amongst emission controls. Why? Because no one knows the politically correct way to say that the largest contributing factor to global warming is there's too many people on the planet.

We must talk about reducing the population. Not reducing population growth, for any continued population growth will still mean continued growth of this problem. And ask any expert where this is headed, and you'll find that if we don't address the problem, it will eventually be done for us. Which means, to us.

Simple math shows that we cannot continue to increase the population, and expect to survive on a planet with finite, and diminshing resources, forever. There will come a time when there will simply be too many people breathing, for the Earth to sustain us all. When we start to reach critical mass, the Earth will start killing us off.

The sooner we start talking about this aspect of global warming, the sooner we can address the problem. Maybe it's too late already, maybe the corrections the planet takes are already in motion, and won't be reversed for as long as it took to create this problem. If this problem started with the first fire, the first clearing of forest, maybe it will take just as long for any changes we make now, to take effect. The planet does not operate on our time schedule.

Even if we eliminated all motor vehicles, all airplanes, trains, factories, every fire and emission, other than the total number of people breathing, we will still have this problem. It may be too late already, it definately will be if we refuse to acknowledge it, and fail to come up with a solution.

If the planet is a living organism, and we kill it, we kill ourselves. Sometimes things are really that simple.

Me, I've said what I think needs to be said. Now, I'm going sailing. Let me know when I can do something else to address this problem.

Ahoy from the Captain.

posted by cpt asshole @ 11:37 AM