Sawz:

I don't think anyone is advocating running around with our heads cut off.

The reason behind carbon cutbacks is that the CO2 we add to atmosphere exceeds the systems natural capacity to resorb and recycle it; and as the excess adds up it increases the greenhouse effect so the system fails to balance its heat gain with heat loss and thus earms up, messing up the balance of life forms, as well as lots of locasl weathers.

Trying to reduce population growth is valuable, not so much because of the heat the bodies add but because of the excess energy demand and increased CO2 production it takes to sustain more people all the way up and down the food chain(S).

Seems to me the unsustainability of our current trend is a combination of both factors--increasing population which increases impact on neighboring systems AND the rising standard of manufactured living we all seem to enjoy so much.


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