tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005348987698132339.post7197844566244092668..comments2024-03-25T22:50:38.203-07:00Comments on Allen L Roland's Weblog: TICKING MASS EXTINCTION TIME BOMB IS NOT FUKUSHIMA ~ IT'S METHANEAllen L Roland, Ph.Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17116023708290815779noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005348987698132339.post-32975046872974983472013-12-01T23:16:40.795-08:002013-12-01T23:16:40.795-08:00All excellent ideas, IllingskAll excellent ideas, IllingskAllen L Roland, Ph.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116023708290815779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005348987698132339.post-36075737020169912222013-12-01T21:40:44.893-08:002013-12-01T21:40:44.893-08:00Given the reality of global warming and it's v...Given the reality of global warming and it's very real threat to render OUR species extinct, there exists a moral imperative that we STOP using fossil fuels. Since 1985, a world of finite resources has grown by an additional two billion people. Planetary citizens now exceed 7 billion. A recent report from the UN Population Division predicts that world population will reach 9.6 billion by 2050. Meanwhile the UN intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that climate change poses sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar. They estimate that crop production will decrease 2% a decade for the rest of the 21st century. This becomes particularly troubling when we realize that the ice caps and glaciers are melting, the oceans are rising and acidifying, storms, droughts, and flooding are intensifying, and loss of our CO2 absorbing forests intensifies as forest fires are more frequent, hotter, and destructive and the Amazon rain forest slowly dries out. Many greenhouse gas feedback mechanisms have been triggered. The tundra permafrost is melting and releasing methane gas, melted sea ice no longer reflects sun rays back into space, thereby warming the seas that melts more ice, carbon is released from drying peat bogs, burning forest add additional CO2, etc. In fact, world recognized expert on climate change, Bill McKibben (google 350.org.) states in his recent book, Eaarth, Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, that if we were to end the fossil fuel CO2 releases tomorrow, the earth will continue heating up for 1000 years. So what are we to do? First, read Eaarth. As Barbara Kingsolver says, nothing could be more important. Second, besides moving to a green economy as quickly as possible, McKibben feels our hope is to scale back and build the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. I would also encourage support for Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth), America`s voice for world population stabilization.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00570444538522260119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9005348987698132339.post-35272210831746728362013-12-01T14:13:59.804-08:002013-12-01T14:13:59.804-08:00"Global warming isn't a prediction. It is..."Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening."<br />James Hansen<br />Allen L Roland, Ph.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116023708290815779noreply@blogger.com