Tuesday, July 12, 2011

James Vaupel: Trace amounts of CO2 could trigger wars or economic collapse

Peak child and the graying population of the developing world
[James Vaupel of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research] who was generally an optimist, noted that significant climate change and global epidemics were possible, and could trigger wars or economic collapse in their wake.

1 comment:

Brian G Valentine said...

There was a simple mistranslation from the original German.

Vaupel actually said: "wasting millions of dollars in hapless schemes to reduce trace amounts of CO2 could trigger wars or economic collapse."