The world is flat; so say the Sandheads

Sun, 2014-11-23 11:01 by Michael S.
This may seem rather harsh; but the "stop climate change" movement is like a stuck record saying the world is flat. In Australia there are two issues inextricably linked; and they have one Anthropogenic cause:
  • Anthropogenic climate change
  • Anthropogenic exponential GDP growth, fuelled by Anthropogenic exponential population growth and environmental mass destruction
Exponential growth is the same percentage increase of the previous year's total size every year. The magnitude of that growth is greater every year. Otherwise specified as doubling time. For example, the doubling time of 1.8% annual growth is 40 years. Australia's population is doubling every 40 years. That means to reduce Australia's emissions to 50% of today's in the 40 years from now, emissions per capita must be reduced to 25% of the current level. Trying to reduce emissions per capita with a rapidly growing population is like pissing in the wind; particularly when the need is urgent and the rate of population growth is planned to continue indefinitely and is faster than the achievable rate of emissions reduction in the short to medium term. It's the "Sandheads", who literally have their heads in the sand. They are sacrificing a once in a lifetime opportunity to do something really useful by linking these two issues together. Climate change cannot be stopped by riding bikes and eating vegetables alone. Demanding that a Government dedicated to environmental devastation by means of mass migration pumping senseless, unproductive GDP growth switch to alternative energy is incorrectly defining the problem, and the solution. What these Sandheads are doing is absolutely devastating. Politicians have an excuse (ie they are politicians) for perpetuating the econo-moronic myth of eternal growth, but intelligent people in a privileged society have no excuse for failing to address climate change in a coherent context. This behaviour is testimony to a perverse combination of ignorance and denial endemic in contemporary Australian society.

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