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This danger of "progress"

Hand Bent Spoon said:
The solution is simple: stop breathing.
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I'm pretty sure it has more to do with burning fossil fuels, cars, power plants, and other things.
 
T'ai Chi said:
I'm pretty sure it has more to do with burning fossil fuels, cars, power plants, and other things.
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Think globally, act locally. Sell your car and stop breathing (kill all the animals in the area, too). You can't stop the power plants, but you can help your local area.

;)

edit: and just think, with less demand for power, the power plants would shut down too! It solves all the problems!

:D
 
There are too many people on the planet. Solution is to stop breeding more. As that appears mostly unacceptable at present, the numbers will rise till lack of resources or catastrophes limit the population growth.
 
I think Australia's population would be shrinking if not for immigration, so find out whatever it is about us that doesn't like to squirt out smelly disease bags, or human rats, as they are known, and see if you can convince the rest of the world to see it our way.
 
It'll be nice when Human Techonology kills the whole of the Human Race... then my people can take back the land we once lost...
 
As correctly pointed out, the issue is not "progress" but population growth. A question I have is what is the impact on global CO2 concentration from a 50% increase in man's contribution.
 
Experts say the United States, which has the world's largest economy and 4 percent of its population, is responsible for about 25 percent of so-called "greenhouse" gases now produced, but Broiles said most future growth in output will come from developing countries.
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The answer is simple: Keep the developing countries undeveloped. The UN should immediately put a stop to all economic development in 3rd world countries. :p
 
The simple answer: Stop being luddites and encourage safer forms of energy like nuclear...

Sheesh. The answer is obvious.
 
The problem is our (relatively) recent invention of civilization, of course. I mean cities, the system of concentrating populations and resources. A given population with certain living standards is going to need a steady stream of raw materials and produce a certain amount of waste products. The problem has been around since we built the first city.

What to do about it? Well, the world's population is not going to abandon its cities and system of living we call civilization. It's simply not going to happen, in spite of what the more radical environmental pundents might want. We can slow down the growth somewhat, and do some tweaking of the system to mitigate the worst pollution, but we're not going to stop consuming and creating waste. That's the reality of human nature. We breed. We try to acquire higher standards of living. We find cures for disease and try to live longer. That's not going to change.

So we either use our intelligence to find solutions to the problems our civilization is causing, or maybe one day the system will collapse. Then the problem is solved for us. Certainly we know some solutions, but they're hardly acceptable. Eliminate population on our own? Force nations to stop developing and roll back the standard of living the leading nations now enjoy? Yea, right.

In the end, civilization might be considered a system of living with a fatal flaw. But that will be a lesson for future generations.
 
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