climate is an example of chaos theory personified. the sun is hitting a warmer patch its producing more energy http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/21dec_cycle24.htm
http://www.research.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/spot_sunclimate.html
, plus we are coming out of a mini ice age, from the middle ages. and eating meat, theres nothing wrong with eating meat. its in some form the best way to make use of otherwise unusuable land..
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetarian.html
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The Earth's total land area is 179,941,270 square kilometres (69,479,518 square miles). A little simple mathematics tells us that at present, on average, one square kilometre has to support just over thirty-three people. If all of it were cultivated, that would certainly be possible.
The argument fails, however, because not all of it is available for arable cultivation. The main environmental factors which determine plant development and distribution are climate and soil type. We can discount the whole of the unproductive continent of Antarctica, so that reduces the total by 13,335,740 square kilometres immediately. We can also discount, at least as far as arable farming is concerned, all other ice-covered areas, tundra, mountains, deserts, heath and moor land, areas covered by rivers, salt marshes and lakes, cities, roads, and railways; and to a large extent semi-deserts, savannah, rain forest, low-lying meadow land and areas liable to regular flooding. We have now discounted most of the Earth's surface. In fact, only eleven percent of the land surface is farmed.
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they cant even say exactly whats going to happen in a weeks time, let alone 100 years.. too many variables. there is controversy, we could have global warming, or there could be the big freeze when the gulfstream stops, or nothing may happen at all.
**Ah, this is where it gets rather contentious because the big warming numbers come not from measurements but from computer models. These computer models and their output are passionately defended by the modeling clique and frequently derided by empiricists -- but the bottom line is that models make an enormous range of assumptions. Whether all the assumptions, tweaks and parameter adjustments really collectively add up to a realistic representation of the atmosphere is open to some conjecture (current climate models do not model "natural" climatic variation very well), but there is no evidence yet that they can predict the future with any greater certainty than a pack of Tarot cards. Moreover, humans do a lot besides emitting greenhouse gases, changing vegetation and transpiration rates through agriculture, for example, and many effects expected to both increase and decrease regional temperatures are not included in these models.
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http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/
but.. my problem is, the over use of resources that we in the west do use, and globally as well.. disposable nappies take a lot longer to decay than towelin ones.. and so on.. the food usage of these kids, more food eaten, due to more kids, means less resources of the planet to recover.
the world is rapidly going to a point of total collapse, because the world is finding it harder and harder to recover, to regenerate. more people makes it more likely for a collapse to happen, yes we have technology, and yes we are slowing it down, but that means more children, which means more waste of resources, and so on...
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