Steven

The astounding, clearly visible, pernicious impacts of human overconsumption and overproduction activities of 6 billion (soon to become 9 billion) human beings upon Earth’s environment and its body of resources are overpowering and soon to be patently unsustainable, I suppose.

How much longer can the relatively small planet we inhabit withstand the colossal ravage being dealt to it in our time by human hands?

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001

One of the points I am feebly trying to make is simply this: the adamant and relentless pursuit of fossil fuel-based economic globalization, marked so starkly as it is by the rampant expansion of unbridled, large-scale business activities we are seeing overspread Earth in our time, could result either in impending ecologic calamities or economic disasters, or both, in these early years of Century XXI.

Always,

Steve

Thanks for your comments, especially the ones regarding your recognition that we need to “wake up and change the paradigm.”

If the family of humanity continues to choose overpopulating Earth; if we keep conspicuously overconsuming limited resources; and if we endlessly expand big-business activities and pollute the relatively small planet God blesses to inhabit, and not to ravage as we are doing now, then a good enough future for our children cannot be assured, can it?

Sincerely,

Steve

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001

I just wanted to address Bob’s comment about the Rich being smart. I used to think this for many years and spent quite a bit of time in self-reflection and critical analysis of why I could not generate the wealth of the Rich.

Ferdinand Lundberg in his book: The Rich and the Super Rich put my mind at ease when he outlined that the authors of the problems we face are all members of the same family. They are not smart – they are simply cunning, ruthless and criminal (not my words, Mr. Lundberg’s) These are the only reasons why they are rich. Hard work being rewarded is a myth to keep you reaching for the golden carrot on the stick. Mr. Lundberg said in no uncertain terms that smart people for the most part are never rich. One simple test for this is how many Nobel Prize winners, teachers, professors do you know who are billionaires?

I am sure that no one wants politics to taint science (in the lab or on message boards), but the fact that science is bought and controlled obviates any puritan views on that. The final point being that unless this power structure is dissolved then all of the problems that come as a result of it will never be resolved.

Doesn’t anyone watch NOVA on PBS?

They had a show on Global Dimming. There are so many suspended particulates ALREADY in the air that the sun’s rays are being reflected.

THIS MEANS THAT IF WE ARE CURRENTLY HEATING UP THAT THE PROBLEM IS EVEN BIGGER THAN PEOPLE THINK BECAUSE THERE IS A COUNTERBALANCING FORCE KEEPING IT FROM BEING EVEN HOTTER.

This means that particulates and gasses will have to be decreased SIMULTANEOUSLY. This is called homeostasis. The planet knows what to do and how to do it. James Burke warned that we were in for a roast in the 1990’s with his series After The Warming. I guess no one was listening to him then, either.

BUT THESE ARE ALL RED HERRINGS AND NOT THE PROBLEM.

I was really dismayed by the poor journalism I heard on Earth and Sky with the hairbrained suggestion that ADDITIONAL particulates could be put in the atmosphere to reflect EVEN MORE SUNLIGHT. The suggested compound was sulfates. Now, nothing stays up there forever (even asteroids) so if these sulfates get down into the oceans what will that do to the pH?

A text on photosynthesis stated that with the present rate of CO2 interaction with the oceans that they will go acidic in about 20 years, more phytoplankton will die, less carbon will be fixed, less oxygen produced and the problem will spiral out of control BECAUSE THERE IS NO PLAN FOR FIXING THE pH of the OCEAN.

This is the only problem people should be working on. If the ocean pH changes…

GAME OVER.

All of you are doing great work. It seems to me that you are doing precisely what needs to be done in our time. Keep going. We are going to make a difference, one that makes a difference, for the sake of the children.

Trinifar, thanks for your kind words. Your intelligence and vision are uncommon, your efforts exemplary.

Sincerely,

Steve

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/