Terry Torgerson’s Take…Don’t Worry, Be Happy?
When some folks’ talk of climate change sounds like a remix of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” but the western US looks like portrayal of the pits of hell, you know the comment section will take a hot turn!
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One interesting thing about the Covid pandemic was the radical drop in greenhouse gasses because manufacturing and transporting good internationally was very much slowed down. Unfortunately, because so much of manufacturing is now international, that also lead to shortages, recessions and other issues. So, unless all humans in every country are willing to adjust to living with less, agonizing over a drier, more fire ridden climate is not reasonable. Good luck with that when people can’t even resist attacking each other on this news site much less find a way to work together anywhere else.
It’s not like this is the first time humans have created this situation. According to this, the same happened in California about 10,000 years ago. “Their model found a disastrous chain of ecological connections: a warming climate, reduction in tree pollen, and increase in human population all forecasted a decline in large herbivore numbers. The reduction in tree pollen also predicted an increase in fires. But the strongest relationship the scientists found by far was between human population growth and a large increase in fire activity.
“When humans arrive we see major changes in the frequency of fires and fire intensity,” says Dunn. “95 percent of the fires we see today are caused by anthropogenic sources from power lines or campfires that have gotten away, from highways or cigarettes or something like that. In a sense, we already know what happened, and what we learned from the past can help inform what will happen in the future and how better to plan to avoid ecosystem collapses.”
https://tarpits.org/stories/playing-fire-extinction-and-survival-la-brea-tar-pits
Fascinating… The real problem:
The world’s population in 1970 was estimated to be 3.6 billion people, which is less than half of the current population. The population grew by 22% between 1960 and 1970, which was double the rate of growth between 1930 and 1950. The highest growth rate, at 2.1%, occurred between 1965 and 1970.
54 years later:
According to the United Nations’ 2024 World Population Prospects report, the world’s population was around 8.2 billion in mid-2024. The report projects that the population will continue to grow over the next several decades, reaching a peak of around 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s.
Damn humans, all they do is fool around and burn stuff…
Don’t worry, the asteroid which is definitely on its way will take care of all your worries. The Earth will be dark for a few years. And then , it will be renewed with the chosen important people from our government who got to hide out like mole people watching Netflix and chowing down on freeze dried tofu. Actually, that future situation sounds worse than today given the survivors are far down on the Natural Selection genetic scale of total culls.
I think you should see someone for that…
I don’t buy an asteroid hitting any time soon, but I do agree on principal that Nature has a way of restoring balance. And if the me-hums don’t like it, they can bitch all they want but it won’t make a difference. I think around a half billion should be sustainable indefinitely. As to the rest – soylent green, anyone?
Juxtapose that with the conversation over contraception.
Put it in your pipe and smoke it. (Wait for it….)
Vote!
Know what else happened during the initial lockdowns? People stopped driving. Suddenly we could hear the birds singing, wildlife started walking on the streets, and so did people. It was a glorious couple of months.
Looks like Terry discovered color.
Guess his views aren’t always just black or white.
Cute kids feeding treat to prairie dog
https://x.com/CRRJA5/status/1817944965298725083?t=_X3PrqgO-F88TxVU_P6_7w&s=19
I think the Hobbits and their inside-the-hill homes had the right idea. New construction in fire-prone areas should incorporate Hempcrete.
And cob, and earthships, and other earth-sheltered homes. Hobbits had the right idea.
Well we are still on the wrong track. Heavy mining for batteries in third world countries. Sourcing lithium destroys water sources and enslaves children. EV = Child slave labor . (Remember when everyone was so proud of fair trade?!) So think about how much raw minerals have to be extracted from the earth. That’s actually taking the environment away completely and leaving a tailing pile(rocks) with no vegetation(trees). Then we plan to drag massive windmills into a beautiful undisturbed and PROTECTED SANCTUARY on our coastline to fill these electric needs. It’s starting to sound like sick torture to the earth. Oh yeah and they want to mine the oceans next !! It’s all pretty obvious with out links and such. If we could still homestead than each plot of land would have families to defend their forest space from fires but instead we have cooperate and government owned forests. Fires are a natural part of life and some humans can be horrible care takers of this earth. If we don’t get rain here than look to the ravaged forests in Brazil !
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Corporate owned forests