If population is one of the biggest things to impact global warming?

Question

why is China not doing anything to protect the environment?

Answer 1

Good point.

Also the Muslim faith requires that its members have large families so that in the future Muslims will outnumber the people that they see as infidels.

The Muslim nations definitely will not participate voluntarily in population control.

Answer 2

I don't think it's fair to attack just one country for population control, if population really was one of the problems affecting global warming, then it would be up to the world in general to make an effort to do something about it. my personal feelings about 'population control' are that it's wrong. I use to work the night shift at the airport in my town, and once a year on the last flight it would a whole flight of children that were adopted from abroad (predominatley asian countries) due to population control laws, I don't think I would want to be put in a postion where I have to choose between having an abortion or having to give up my child to a complete stranger, I don't think anyone would. It's a lot easier to pass judgement from the other side of the fence.

Answer 3

Population is the biggest because we demand more natural resources for each person added to our world. Population would become less of an impact if we could demand less per person by having smaller homes, smaller cars, less power needs, more recycling, etc.

China has programs to reduce birthrates because it is forced to by major overpopulation causing famine in the past. Many countries are reducing birthrates without forcing like the US, Europe, Japan, etc. At present rates the population should level off in the near future. Those countries that can control population to match resources will be more successful in the future.

Answer 4

America had the biggest impact on global warming but now that they have signed the global warming agreement china is having the biggest impact, china is not going to stop what they are doing beacause their economy is going up and their not going to change that for anything

Answer 5

They are--though their methods aren't what any free country would tolerate: mandatory birth control.

But otherwise, China is following the hstoric pattern of all communist countries: focusing on increased production regardless of the consequences.

However--population is NOT the problem. That's one myth that needs to be discredited--it is dangerous because it provides a pretext for curtailing human freedom (as China has proven).

World population growth is slowing--and the population will level off in a few decades (at around 11 billion). Well within sustainable levels--IF we shift out of fossil fuels as a basic technology. If we don't, we can't sustain the existing population. But the problem is HOW we produce enrgy, not the numper of people.

Answer 6

Population isn't the problem.

We could support many more people on this planet without screwing up the environment if we wanted to and were willing to let ideology slide.

The problem is that we are emitting excess CO2 from power plants and cars and that is what we have to solve regardless of population level. With less people we would of course need less electricity and have less cars on the roads but we'd still have to deal with global warming anyway (just that it'd take a bit longer).

Though if you want to support billions of people without destroying the environment you're going to have to accept nuclear power and genetic engineering.

Answer 7

China has a serious problem. Reducing global warming means cutting back economic growth, which is all that keeps their generally desperately poor population from revolting.

But they are coming to realize that global warming will hurt their economy even more, and starting to plan how to reduce their emissions. It will take time for them to come around fully, but it's happening.

Answer 8

If, in fact, Global warming is Human caused... The *only* solution is to reduce the Human population down to a few hundred million. That is the *only* way. Changing light bulb types or driving roller skate cars would reduce only by a minuscule amount the carbon out put.... which is the *least* important of the Green House gases. Methane, a far more important Green House gas, can only be substantially reduced by turning the world's population vegetarian. That would still only reduce The Green House Effect by only a few parentage points. The major Green House Gas is water vapor (90 to 95% of The Green House Effect) and Mankind has *ABSOULTELY NO CONTROL* over that. In any case it is the Sun (Sun Spots) that is the cause... Make a law against THAT?

Answer 9

Because they are too busy making money. But to say they have done nothing is to ignore the facts. They have had an official one child per family policy for decades now. This is intended to reduce their population growth. It is enforced by severe monetary penalties for families with more than one child and cruelly in some cases by coerced late term abortions.

Answer 10

I feel population has a lot to do with it. And China does have a restriction on how many kids you can have theyre only aloud to have one child per family, Thats more than were doing here.