It is said that fossil fuels, particularly oil & gas, comsuption is the main cause of carbon dioxide production that leads to global warming in the last 40 years or so....
If these fuels were not blamed, could any research on cleaner (greener) energies had been easily justified, being so costly? Does anyone have the idea of how much just exponential population increase impacts global temperature? It is clear that the northern hemisphere is the more affected one by this actual temperature increase. Should we start thinking of controlling expansion of human beings on Earth for the sake of the planet (pollution & contamination reduction) and our own survival? Just out loud thinking!!!!
Dear Franck A. Audemard
We know very well that many of the issues of global concern has become a subject of political bickering. Particularly the theory of climate change and global warming, where it has become subject to geopolitical plays between of some superpowers to blackmail.
Regards.
It seems to me that global worming and other highly debatable subjets are often used by the politicians to elegantly mask the imidiate problem of general global pollution (air, water, soil). Pollution is a real problem, we have the data, we follow it, it is evem predictable. I do understand how a debate on possible consequences can help to solve the problem, but somewhere on the way we often forget the initial problem. So, in my eyes, researh and use of cleaner energies are justified as long as they help to reduce polution.
I had not read your reflection carefully. I agree with your approaches. In fact, in much of the literature, it is stated that the main global problem facing our planet is precisely the exponential growth of its population. This leads, increasingly, to a greater demand for resources for the activities of man, food and water to meet the demand of the growing population and, to satisfy those who control economic power. This scenario makes me think about the following question, will this year's fires in our Amazon have any relation to this global problem?
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