What's New by Bob Park - Friday, December 17, 2010
2. CANCUN: LOOKING FOR PROGRESS IN THE SECOND DERIVATIVE.
China pledged to reduce the rate at which its emissions are increasing. Well, at least they're talking, but emission rate is a second-order problem. First we should worry about the worlds uncontrolled fertility rate. Reduce the population and emissions will be reduced proportionately. It is the only emissions-control policy that is guaranteed to work. Chinas leaders know more about the population problem than anybody, having undertaken the courageous one-child policy to avert an inevitable catastrophe from Maos wacky economic theories. The mere mention of population inevitably draws comments that the industrialized nations have already achieved zero population growth and warnings by futurists such as Fred Pearce about a "population crash." The bitter truth is that Earth's population must be reduced.
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These warm-mongers are getting scarier and scarier. What I find interesting is that if you look behind the environmentalist mask most of these advocates wear, they are all, each and every one, either leftist socialists or downright communists. I hate to be conspiratorial, but this is something to fear.
Sorry to disagree. Please read Garrett Hardin's essay "The Tragedy of the Commons".
I support NPG (negative population growth), and I also support free market policies, generally. The Earth's human population cannot grow without limit. The Earth's human population will stop growing when the birth rate falls to meet the death rate or the death rate rises to meet the birth rate. Your choices are limited. In the most optimistic scenario, the world will come around to the Chinese solution. Other options are worse. The sooner politicians hit the brakes, the gentler the deceleration.
you first then tom!
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