We’re on a trajectory to an unmanageable Global warming - aka the sky is falling cowboys Aug. 6, 2014: Stockholm University researchers found that some of that methane is leaking, and even making it to the ocean’s surface. Dr. Jason Box says …”What alarmed was that ”the methane bubbles were reaching the surface. That was something new in my survey of methane bubbles. The conventional thought is that the bubbles would be dissolved before they reached the surface and that microorganisms would consume that methane, and that’s normal. But if the plumes are making it to the surface, that’s a brand new source of heat-trapping gases that we need to worry about! We’re on a trajectory to an unmanageable heating scenario, and we need to get off it!” (aka STOP POLLUTING CO2, now!) Translated: What he is saying by “unmanageable” is industrial civilization is doomed and humans may end up becoming extinct. salon/2014/08/06/climate_scientist_drops_the_f_bomb_after_startling_arctic_discovery/ My analysis: How will the super rich react when President Obama sequesters the fossil fuels in the ground worth $20 trillion? Growth of population and industrial output are inherently increasing at an exponential rate and quickly rises to a conceivable future time when economic collapse occurs. (~ 2010 to ~2050) We will not continue to see the same energy use per person or services provided to each person by increasing the use of sustainable energy methods and improved efficiency in the use of energy. It is false to assume that when we no long to have economic growth, things will just slow down. If is false to assume by reducing consumption and by constructing sustainable energy infrastructure and then everything will level out and avoid economic collapse. The political system votes for actions that give short term benefit, but in the long term things get worse. We must build resilience into all parts of our civilization, even so industrial civilization has a high likelihood of collapsing. What are the grounds for ethical action when you think it is too late for constructive activity? Source: Dennis Meadows cisl.cam.ac.uk/Resources/Videos/Dennis-Meadows.aspx 1. I want a plan “B” in case technology does not come to our rescue. As it stand now we are just hoping technology will come to our rescue. There are no sustainable energy sources that will rescue us at our current population levels . Global climate change will only be mitigated with extremely stringent emissions policies that reduce our consumption rates. 2. Ethical population reduction must be a part of any plan to rationally deal with peak oil (the end of cheap oil, natural gas, and coal), global climate change, species decline or extinction, and natural resources depletion. 3. We must change our ethical standard and agree that the most ethical behavior is to adopt a child and it is a bit less ethical to only have one child or twins. We must help educate women in the world. 4. Global climate change will only be mitigated with extremely stringent emissions policies that reduce our consumption rates. The End of Cheap Oil https://facebook/groups/149243698443944/#!/groups/461146587275445/ Running on Empty Caucus of United States Democrats https://facebook/groups/149243698443944/ Global warming will result in the collapse of industrial civilization and over 80 experts think global economic collapse will happen very soon. bing/videos/search?q=Walking+Away+From+Empire&FORM=VIRE8#view=detail&mid=C3EE5628C755F5E96EC0C3EE5628C755F5E96EC0 2013 was the 37th consecutive year of above-average global temperatures, and since the Industrial Revolution began, the earth has been warmed by .85 degrees Celsius. Another study revealed how dust in the wind, of which there is much more than usual, due to spreading drought, is quickening the melting of Greenlands embattled ice sheet, which is already losing somewhere between 200 to 450 billion tons of ice annually. The study showed that increased dust on the ice will contribute towards another 27 billion tons of ice lost.
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