Global warming?

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Don't worry. The human species has multiplied its natural carrying capacity by many times over in the last 100 years.

Try doing some reading on Rwanda and Burundi. Technology is not always going to save us.

At the same time, an alarming trend towards overpopulation has slowed, and the curve now says we aren't going to grow infinitely.

Nothing grows indefinitely besides, perhaps, a cancer cell. Rwanda and Burundi got their growth under control by bloody civil wars. AIDS happened along to slow population growth in Africa, etc. AIDS and genocide may help the population problem, but they are not exactly the methods of choice in population control.

(Which is good for AGW proponents who want to hurt man's natural carrying capacity by taxing energy. That includes energy for agriculture...)

I’ll give just one example. Ever hear of “eutrophication”? This is what happens to bodies of water when near-by farmland has vast amounts of chemical fertilizer dumped on them. The ferilizers are carried to streams and lakes where the sudden upsurge in nutrients cause algal blooms. The algae use up all the O2 in the body of water and fish die off results. Maybe those fisherman downstream do deserve to have an energy tax to offset their loss of livelihood.