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Originally Posted by freeztar
....it is the duty of the scientific community to address these issues in the hope that education will spread and eventually the objections slow to a trickle.
Bring it on!   |
"We are already too far down the road to ruin as it is, 9 billion people, would there be room for anything but people and croplands?" -MTM
It's too late to google, but I think I recall hearing that you could fit 6 Billion people in Texas and they wouldn't be able to see each other (equally distributed).
Croplands is more of a problem, but there are ways. I hope someone else knows about this carrying capacity stuff (or I could try to find stuff later).
"Wouldn't exploiting the resources of the solar system be better than ripping off mountains for metals and drilling everywhere we can for hydrocarbons? Space could allow us to kill two birds with one stone, win/win situation to put it in corporate speak."
Yes, but right now....
What you're talking about is a mature Type 1 civilization; probably at least 500 years hence.
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The preponderance of North/South coast lines might be as much responsible for the increased habitability than warm or cold. It does make for more species diversity."
Very interesting observation; yep, that'll keep me lost in thought for a good while.
"Tell me what you mean by better government; too many people seem to think their way is better but it just works out to be different."
...ooops, too late; gotta run.
hahahaha
I've got some ideas such as more oversight and more local connections, but this is a whole 'nother Topic too.
"Better" would also refer to intergovernmental cooperation.
I don't want 9 Billion people, but that was the number I heard somewhere [anyone?], when they projected into the future with current trends and expected advances, etc.
The point is that this (9B) was judged to be workable, with efficient management of resources.
meanwhile... for those still feeling shakey....
Look at a new parameter of CC effects; see the anthropogenic component clearly demonstrated:
http://climatesci.colorado.edu/publi...i-etal2002.pdf
"These fluxes indicate that 30% of the heat gained by the ground in the last five centuries was deposited during the last fifty years, and over half of the five-century heat gain occurred during the 20th century."
-from:
Beltrami, H., J. E. Smerdon, H. N. Pollack, and S. Huang (2002), Continental heat gain in the global climate system, Geophysical Research Letters., 29(8), 1167, doi:10.1029/2001GL014310
Note the "hockey stick" like shape of the graphs.
