I do not care about the global warming debate. Other things are more to the point. One flaw in all the Global warming warning is when the often repeated hottest in 500 years ago statement is mentioned. Too easy for some to point out that total human population 500 years ago might have been 100 million and total SUV numbers zero. So maybe we are to blame and maybe not. Climates change over time. Who cares? Even if the science adds up to proof of Global warming think about what is going to happen in the next 40 years. Change is coming and we will not like it.
There will remain two minor facts. Fact one is that China and India do not care. They are not going to be able to stop increasing their population growth and they want to raise their standard of living. You tell two billion people to stop having sex and to keep their standard of living low so they do not create more greenhouse gases. Combined they are a third of the total population. People generate increasing amounts of pollution as they raise their standard of living. We may have been the largest CO2 producer today but every study I have seen has China passing us by as they raise their standard of living. India is behind them but not by far. Cars are becoming a more common thing in China and India. Put ten or twenty million cars more on the road every year and think of all the pollution they will generate.
Fact two is that today's seven billion people will be more than 10.5 billion in 2050. We do not have the capacity to feed 10.5 billion people right now and no one can figure out how we will do it then. US food production is almost maxed out and the rest of the world does not have enough reserve to take up the slack.
We have been thinking that oil will be the cause of the next great war if one starts. Food or lack of food will the be reason. So stop with the debate about Global warming and start figuring out how to feed all those people.
