Global warming and the Cropper Effect. Is there a limit to the amount of heat that Earth can dissipate into space (heat sink)?
If the World Were a Village of only 100 people (by David J Smith) 22 people speak a Chinese dialect, 20 earn less than a dollar a day, 17 cannot read or write, 50 are often hungry, 24 have a television in their home.
If science solved the energy crisis using another form of stored potential energy e.g. “cold fusion”, “nuclear energy” and at the very least made sure that the other 50 had a refrigerator and the other 76 had a television would the heat produced exceed Earth's heat sink capacity?
If so, wouldn’t one solution be to stop civil advances of the less fortunate, or to simply let capacity for growth flood?
The situation might be different if the energy solution were realised from the transfer of energy (e.g. solar to electrical).
Is greenhouse is only a tactical issue. Should politicians be investigating broader strategic issues?
2006-09-13
23:02:40
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Byron Wu
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Environment
Sorry if the cynicism with reference to the "less fortunate" runs too deep.
Let me explain.
There is a theory that only the very most exceptional people can change without the need to change being forced upon them.
Thus, if you really care about water, use it all; let your taps run day and night. When the water stops coming out of the tap, the population will find the political will to reuse / recycle water.
Similarly, if you are concerned about petrol running out, go out and buy a V12 for yourself and all of your friends and drive it everywhere.
Repeat each popular action to excess until dead or the democratic population finds the political will to change.
In the mean time, start a political party called "the moral majority" and make every populist injurious action you can think of policy until the political will changes (i.e. accelerate or be a catalyst for the change).
2006-09-14
03:25:18 ·
update #1