Comments on: A Walk on the Beach http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/28/a-walk-on-the-beach/ A Future Look at Today Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: The Oceans are Beginning to Die | Evolution Shift - David Houle, Futurist, Disintermediation, Future Trends, Future of Energy http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/28/a-walk-on-the-beach/comment-page-1/#comment-65001 The Oceans are Beginning to Die | Evolution Shift - David Houle, Futurist, Disintermediation, Future Trends, Future of Energy Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:57:30 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/28/a-walk-on-the-beach/#comment-65001 [...] was two years ago that I first wrote about ocean dead zones. These are areas of the ocean that, due to a lack of oxygen, no longer sustain any life.  While [...] [...] was two years ago that I first wrote about ocean dead zones. These are areas of the ocean that, due to a lack of oxygen, no longer sustain any life.  While [...]

]]> By: david http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/28/a-walk-on-the-beach/comment-page-1/#comment-344 david Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:39:33 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/28/a-walk-on-the-beach/#comment-344 Deep Thought- Interesting comments. Well, to respond to your points: 1. I have never thought the UN much of a leading edge institution. 2. Yes I do worry about overpopulation because to me it is one of the root problems from which others flow. There are 6 billion people on this planet and fully 1/3 of them live in extreme poverty and a similar percentage can't read. So if we do not have too many people then we are woefully inadequate in how we enable people to live. It was once said to me that the Earth could be a garden of eden for 500 million people. Well its too late for that. 3. Addiction to petroleum is indeed the leading cause of global warming, not the only. As I wrote in the post, it is part of the larger issue of humans trashing the planet. Mercury in the sea and the fish that we eat is not about global warming but it is about disregard for cause and effect in a finite situation. In the past few months, most of the pure springs in Florida have been giving people severe rashes that have been traced to pesticides. So, perhaps air pollution in certain areas is receding, but other types of dangerous pollution continue. So my point is that sure we have to replace petroleum, and as fast as possible, but we also have a lot of other things we have to do if this planet is to remain inhabitable by humans. Hey, if we destroy it, we'll just set evolution back 500 million years and it will start again from the oceans. David Deep Thought-

Interesting comments. Well, to respond to your points:
1. I have never thought the UN much of a leading edge institution.
2. Yes I do worry about overpopulation because to me it is one of the root problems from which others flow. There are 6 billion people on this planet and fully 1/3 of them live in extreme poverty and a similar percentage can’t read. So if we do not have too many people then we are woefully inadequate in how we enable people to live. It was once said to me that the Earth could be a garden of eden for 500 million people. Well its too late for that.
3. Addiction to petroleum is indeed the leading cause of global warming, not the only. As I wrote in the post, it is part of the larger issue of humans trashing the planet. Mercury in the sea and the fish that we eat is not about global warming but it is about disregard for cause and effect in a finite situation. In the past few months, most of the pure springs in Florida have been giving people severe rashes that have been traced to pesticides. So, perhaps air pollution in certain areas is receding, but other types of dangerous pollution continue.

So my point is that sure we have to replace petroleum, and as fast as possible, but we also have a lot of other things we have to do if this planet is to remain inhabitable by humans. Hey, if we destroy it, we’ll just set evolution back 500 million years and it will start again from the oceans.

David

]]> By: Deep Thought http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/28/a-walk-on-the-beach/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Deep Thought Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:52:58 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/28/a-walk-on-the-beach/#comment-342 So, you are a futurist who worries about overpopulation (a bugbear that even the UN is beginning to discard as too fantastical to believe), pollution (in decline for a decade, even with China being unregenerate), and, uh, addiction to petroleum.... which is different from pollution how, exactly, in the context of global warming? So, you are a futurist who worries about overpopulation (a bugbear that even the UN is beginning to discard as too fantastical to believe), pollution (in decline for a decade, even with China being unregenerate), and, uh, addiction to petroleum…. which is different from pollution how, exactly, in the context of global warming?

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