I’m an Environmentalist and a Realist. An environmentalist is a person who is concerned about the impact the human race has on the environment. As the human population grows its growth directly impacts the environment both by resources and waste. I can remember when I was in high school our books were saying that all oil resources would be used up by 1980, well that hasn’t happened yet but our dependences on oil has and is harming our environment. A world with a population the size it is today must depend on technology to feed and house it, technology must have fuel to run and today oil is that fuel. In our quest to break our dependence on oil we have switched over to biofuel, a renewable energy, but is biofuel the answer to our dependence on oil? The idea makes intuitive environmental sense - plants take up carbon dioxide as they grow, so biofuels should help reduce greenhouse gas emissions - but the full environmental cost of biofuels is only now becoming clear. Corn is the chief plant for biofuel in America, Corn is also used to feed cattle and demand for meat is high. As the demand for corn for biofuel increases so does the price for biofuel corn. Farmers who grow other crops are switching over to biofuel corn to cash in on this new oil well. At the time that the demand for biofuel corn raises so is the demand for food crops, this demand for food crops that was being met by the farmer who switched to biofuel corn is now being met by farmers in Brazil and elsewhere. To grow this food crop in Brazil farmers had to clear prehistoric rain forest to make room for these crops that require sunlight. Slash and burn of the rain forest of Brazil and many other places in the world adds to the already problematic global warming. Slash and burn of the rain forest also causes many other problems besides the carbon emission from the smoke, it also changes weather patterns and the elimination of many species that benefits mankind. The biggest problem of global warming is overpopulation, people are living longer and more people are having children. Unless the world can pull together and solve the problem of overpopulation, Mother Nature will do it herself, and Mother Nature is not kind. As the polar ice caps melt and weather patterns change we will see more and powerful hurricanes, sea level world wide will raise, forest and fertile crop land will become deserts. There will be famine and disease, and wars to take rare resources. Will mankind survive? The human animal is a survivor, when the world population reaches a level that the Earth can support the human animal will began anew in a new and changed world.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 01:03:56 +0000
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