Humanity, is Time Running Out? Caught Between a Bowl of Rice a Day and Armageddon
Summary
Increasingly warmer temperatures are melting glaciers around the world threatening fresh water supplies and irrigation of crops to a third of the world’s population and 10 of the world’s mightiest rivers, like the Ganges, Danube, Yangtze and Rio Grande are drying up.If the Mayan calendar predicating the start of our demise on Dec. 21, 2012 and the other prophets of doom are to be proved wrong, it will be because realistic pragmatic people listened to the scientists and gave them the tools and money they needed to attempt to save the world as we now know it, before ecocide for us and countless other species becomes a foregone conclusion.However if we are right then we will have saved the environment for future generations; a fair trade off in my opinion, if we simply stand by and do nothing then we must consign ourselves to being used as climate change fodder and environmental guinea pigs for rich people and powerful corporations.It was the leaders, the politicians, and priests that the crowds turned on first before turning upon themselves.If the Mayan calendar predicating the start of our demise on Dec. 21, 2012 and the other prophets of doom are to be proved wrong, it will be because realistic pragmatic people listened to the scientists and gave them the tools and money they needed to attempt to save the world as we now know it, before ecocide for us and countless other species becomes a foregone conclusion.The only solution to Climate Change is to slow the flow of Co2, then to stop it altogether and re-absorb the green house gas emissions.Human activity is currently producing 35 gig-a-tons of Co2 every year one gig-a-ton equals twice the weight of all the people on earth so 35 gig-a-tons is 70 times the combined weight of all of humanity.Then the impact will be irreversible for thousands of years and our fate will be sealed along with it.No matter how they spin it, they are digging up ancient dead decomposed organic deposits that nature in her wisdom has buried safely deep within the earth, in the form of oil, coal, and gas.