Comments on: Let’s go straight to number one

By: nicholas

nicholas — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:49:07 +0000

“… world is facing an environmentally crisis leading to the sixth major extinction…” Assuming you are right in this evaluation, then it is hard to see how this puny collection of ‘do’s’ you have listed, are going to be of any remote use, and so i say “party on”… Armageddon has been predicted in that big book… we already have a full house (as you point out) and we demand our pound of flesh.

By: spank your own MONKey

spank your own MONKey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:38:30 +0000

nonsense… natural renewable energy holds the possibility of generating more than enough energy for our needs… we don’t need to become monks (rising and sleeping with natural light from the sun?!?!?!) we just need to be smarter…
jeez… you can go back to living in the stone age if you want to man… i can promise you the bulk of humanity ain’t gonna join you

By: Cactus

Cactus — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:33:56 +0000

@ian shaw

Blaming everything on overpopulation is simplistic and a cop out. Nothing taboo about the subject either, here is a much more balanced view than you present.

Climate Change and the Population ‘Bomb’: A Debate Not to Shy Away From
http://sacsis.org.za/site/News/detail.asp?iChannel=1&nChannel=News&iCat=1434&iData=386

By: ian shaw

ian shaw — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:40:38 +0000

It is a taboo subject, but the ultimate cause of all ills like environmental destruction, water shortage, energy crises,air pollution, species extinction, more hunger and poverty, climate change, dilution of educational standards, collapse of healthcare, increasing violence and immorality, increasing crime rate, etc. are ALL ultimately attributable to ever-increasing overpopulation. If we carry on reproducing at this rate, we must beware that nature ultimately solves an exponential overpopulation increase by means of new incurable diseases, mysteriously reducing fertility, and other biological means. All this due to, our current preoccupation of politics, ideologies, nationalism, racism, rugby and wrestling, fashion, celebrities and luxury holidays.

By: Plonked

Plonked — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:14:28 +0000

I guess any oil industry employeee must be seriously looking to see how they can adapt their professional skills to renewable energy. Those who jump ship first will be best off before the renewable energy job market becomes flooded.

By: DY

DY — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:23:08 +0000

Good article…in simple language let’s go green, let’s be selfless and do our part.

By: Cactus

Cactus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:19:11 +0000

Sorry I missed the point, what is number one?

By: Rory Short

Rory Short — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:03:05 +0000

@Peak I like your graphic examples of our craziness. All life forms are totally dependent for their existence on energy all of which energy comes from the sun in the first place. In the last few centuries we humans have been profligate users of the solar energy that was stored away over millions of years in fossil fuels. We have been behaving like utterly irresponsible children let loose in a sweet shop. If we continue we are going to destroy not only the sweet shop and all that it contains but ourselves as well. Starting right now, not at somet future date, we all need to do everything that we can to desist from this collective madness.

By: MLH

MLH — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:39:51 +0000

Good one! I must be in a good mood today too…especially since I smoke!

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