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Thread #160973   Message #3824163
Posted By: Steve Shaw
02-Dec-16 - 05:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Serious Yet Abt Ending Climate Change?
Subject: RE: BS: Serious Yet Abt Ending Climate Change?
You are flailing.

May I remind you that this thread is about addressing climate change. Issues to do with population increases in developing countries have nothing to do with that, as those countries are the least offenders in terms of emissions (see your own graph). Carbon emissions are the sole cause of anthropogenic global warming. That is driven almost entirely by carbon emissions from developed countries. Your attempt to conflate two world issues is wrong-headed. Worse, your campaign to control population as a solution for climate change would be inappropriate in developed countries with already-low birth rates. It would be appropriate in developing countries, of course, in your scheme of things. Two points there: first, how do you think it could be achieved? Second, have you ever delved into why birth rates are high in many developing countries? I would do a little research on that if I were you before proposing solutions that would look like naked western imperialism - and not a little racist.

Finally, get your teeth into the issues and out of Steve Shaw. Join the debate - properly.