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Spencer Patton : What does sustainability mean to you

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What does “sustainability” mean to you ?

 

  1. Global Dimming.  This has alwasy been an over-looked topic in my opinion and wuite frankly, I don’t think enough people realize that this could potentially be something of a contributing factor to global warming and our human destruction towards the Earth.
  2. Olive oil.  I didn’t pick this link for any specific reason other than the fact that olive oil is slightly fascinating and mysterious; I feel as though there is some secret yet to be discovered about olive oil.  I mean, come one, olive oil even has it's own international council.  It has to be important !
  3. Carbon footprint.  Al Gore, take note !  You may talk all you like about “reduce, reuse, recycle,” but you sure aren't mindful with your carbon footprint !
  4. Progressivism.  Are we truly making progress or are we digging ourselved into a deeper, irreversable hole ?
  5. Life expectancy.  We're keeping more people on this Earth for a longer period of time; what effects are coming from this ?  Are we interrupting natural processes ?

 

 After reading several different links, I decided that I'd really like to add the following information from the "over population" page of Wikipedia to the "global warming" and "life expectancy" pages because they are related !

 

 

Another overlooked topic related to Global Warming and related directly to life expectancy is the overpopulation of the Earth.  Are we breeding ourselves to a climate crisis ?  The fact stands that in the past fifty years, the population of the planet has exceedingly grown by over 50 percent.  The world popular is currently growing by 75 million people every year. According to the overpopulation article in Wikipedia, if the population trends continue at the current rate, the following would be true by the year 2050: “India will have almost 1.7 billion people, China 1.4 billion, United States 400 million, Indonesia 297 million, Pakistan 292 million, Nigeria 289 million, Bangladesh 254 million, Brazil 254 million, Democratic Republic of the Congo 187 million, Ethiopia 183 million, Philippines 141 million, Mexico 132 million, Egypt 121 million, Vietnam 120 million, Russia 108 million, Japan 103 million, Iran 100 million, Turkey 99 million, Uganda 93 million, Tanzania 85 million, and Kenya 85 million.”

 

 

With all these extra people, what will happen to our planet ?  One has to consider that perhaps our climate problems have stemmed from the central point that there are simply too many people on the planet.  The explanation that our atmosphere is becoming more and more polluted may not only be due to cars and the emissions from them.  Have you ever thought that simply by us — human beings — living and breathing on this earth that we are destroying it ?  Every human body emits a temperature of 98,6° Fahrenheit.  That’s hot !  Fifty years ago, we didn’t have six billion people emitting that kind of heat — we had roughly half of that amount of people.  Heat escapes from the body via the head — we know this to be true.  When there is snow outside and cold, what do you wear on your head to keep warm ?  A hat, of course.  And why do we do this ?  To trap the heat that we are emitting and keeping it closer to our bodies longer so that it doesn’t escape into the atmosphere !

Comments (1)

Anonymous said

at 11:59 pm on Sep 14, 2008

Global Warming

This was interesting to me. The fact that we are all contributing to the effects of global warming such as with with overpopulation, burning of fossil fuels , etc. US wastes the greatest energy comparing this with Japan (see link). With increased population growth, we see more utilization of fuels, gas, etc, cutting down on trees where forest trees can absorb a huge amount of Carbon and when destroyed for human utilization, CO2 is released in the atmosphere. We can help prolong global warming a bit further by less usage of our cars, walk/bike, plant more trees to diminish usage of electricity during the warmer months, etc.
Now with improved technology more than ever, humans are living longer than ever before emitting and wasting more energy and more births especially in third world countries.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1848/global.html

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