how to solve global warming

[jp1]

Last night I watched the second half of the Nova show about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. At the end they tossed off a statistic that made me realize that the solution to global warming is as simple as having a 7 mile long asteroid hit the earth. Yes, that would create a different set of problems, like tsunamis all over the world and molten glass raining down everywhere setting most of the stuff on the planet's surface on fire, which would for sure be a bummer. But that asteroid also threw enough crap up into the atmosphere that scientists believe it took about 10 years for everything to clear and during that time the average temperature on earth fell a staggering 48 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Yppej]

Or since overpopulation is the cause you could just kill yourself. Keep taking boosters every few months until your T cells are exhausted. That should do the trick.

[jp1]

Or since overpopulation is the cause you could just kill yourself. Keep taking boosters every few months until your T cells are exhausted. That should do the trick.

It's kind of sad that you're just phoning it in now. Try harder. Or as Melania would say "be best."

[catherine]

So, you're saying that we need the 6th extinction, caused by an outside event, as a reset button, rather than people just cleaning up their messes.

While population plays a role, I'm a believer that over population is not a major cause of global warming. First of all, the population is starting to flatten, especially in the more affluent countries and where countries practice birth control. That's a bit of a red herring when there are other forces at play.

Then other red herring is the idea that "global warming" is the bogeyman rather than the causes of global warming. The ladder is against the wrong wall. It's like saying let's make sure we have enough water to put out the fire burning down your house instead of saying stop setting fire to your furniture.

If we get to the true root cause of global warming it has to do with lack of respect for the living systems that support us. The notion that humans can rape and pillage with impunity for all their self-serving ends. The twist in the wording in Genesis that turned man from a steward of the earth to a dominator. The resulting growth of economic, political and cultural systems that support that mindset.


But, jp, it will probably take an asteroid to address all this..

[Yppej]

For JP it will take an asteroid because he doesn't have any religious beliefs.

For those of us who do it might be a return to animacy, as discussed in Braiding Sweetgrass and Finding the Mother Tree.

[catherine]

For those of us who do it might be a return to animacy, as discussed in Braiding Sweetgrass and Finding the Mother Tree.

We can always hope.

[ApatheticNoMore]

jp was just kind of playing around with the asteroid thing. It would take a revolution or something probably.

While population plays a role, I'm a believer that over population is not a major cause of global warming.

if the population was half what it was now problems would be easier to manage. I mean it's preferable from a human wellbeing perspective IMO, to have a smaller population that can have a decent standard of living than a huge population living in dire poverty that is demanded by that. Really how is that desirable? But I don't think it's that easily solved, I mean everyone having no or less kids is great, but it takes a long time for population to decline that way, and we've got more immediate problems with climate change that can ever be solved that way.

And of course with global warming the root is burning greenhouse gasses.

First of all, the population is starting to flatten, especially in the more affluent countries and where countries practice birth control.

that's very good though.

[jp1]

For the record I’d rather not have an asteroid come kill most of what’s alive on earth today. And obviously I doubt that one is going to arrive anytime soon since it’s been 60 something million years sine the last one came to shake things up. But frankly I doubt that humanity is going to make the changes necessary to stop human caused climate change before billions of people are drastically negatively impacted. The likelihood of that happening is probably about the same as the likelihood of a 7 mile asteroid smacking the planet a second time. In the meantime we’ll have people driving their dinosaur fueled cars an hour each way daily while avoiding slightly longer once in a lifetime vacation trips thinking they are not part of the problem. And as time goes by those of us with the resources will spend a lot of money on things like ever taller sea walls to prevent the inevitable while those with less resources drown/sweat to death.

At least a seven mile long asteroid would split the suffering equally amongst all of humanity more or less.

[Yppej]

For the record I’d rather not have an asteroid come kill most of what’s alive on earth today. And obviously I doubt that one is going to arrive anytime soon since it’s been 60 something million years sine the last one came to shake things up. But frankly I doubt that humanity is going to make the changes necessary to stop human caused climate change before billions of people are drastically negatively impacted. The likelihood of that happening is probably about the same as the likelihood of a 7 mile asteroid smacking the planet a second time. In the meantime we’ll have people driving their dinosaur fueled cars an hour each way daily while avoiding slightly longer once in a lifetime vacation trips thinking they are not part of the problem. And as time goes by those of us with the resources will spend a lot of money on things like ever taller sea walls to prevent the inevitable while those with less resources drown/sweat to death.

At least a seven mile long asteroid would split the suffering equally amongst all of humanity more or less.

Maybe you should stop flying places for teambuilding exercises etc and instead work on teambuilding with climate change activists where you live. All politics is local. Keyboard warriors are pretty useless.

I have been attending meetings in my city with some success in advancing my agenda. What have you done for yours other than posture and pontificate?

[jp1]

Maybe you should stop flying places for teambuilding exercises etc and instead work on teambuilding with climate change activists where you live. All politics is local. Keyboard warriors are pretty useless.

I have been attending meetings in my city with some success in advancing my agenda. What have you done for yours other than posture and pontificate?

Again you fail in the attention to detail game. Since you forgot, I didn’t end up flying anywhere for team building exercises because SO had a trivial illness that has killed a million Americans in the last 2 years. You should probably schedule a doctor’s appointment to discuss memory concerns.