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Offline wilber

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Re: The End of the World Thread
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2019, 08:42:03 pm »
We are taking past each other. I am arguing that if people migrate it is not because of climate change - it is because of incompetent governments that are not able to meet their needs. Developed countries generally have competent governments and even if climate change affects food production there is little concern that they will not be able to ensure their people have food.
But that is not what I am saying. I am saying that the core problem is over population - not climate change. Climate change may be an aggravating factor but it is not the primary cause. The primary cause is too many people living in societies with incompetent governments.

The only reason the "blame everything on climate change" meme appears in the media so much is because it suits the agenda of a large number of political actors. It is not a fact or even a reasonable hypothesis because it ignores the elephant in the room which is bad government and over population.

There are reasons governments cannot meet needs that have anything to do with the earth itself as far as you are concerned. Bad government is responsible for droughts, hurricanes, warming oceans. Humans can't possibly have anything to do with that even though their numbers have increased 300% in the last 70 years.

I'm not blaming everything on climate change, I'm just incredulous that you completely dismiss it in spite of all the research that says it is real.
 
You are right about one thing, cutting the worlds population in half would solve a lot. I'm glad I won't be around to see how mother nature does it. I do worry about my grand kids though, they didn't sign on for the consequences of our willful ignorance, they have a right to expect better.

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