You are an optimist!
Our technology is stone age even electric cars and photovoltaic. Only a
cradle to cradle production process will solve the problem!
Our industry is not driven to sustain humanity. The only goal is
profits. What you invent today is sold tomorrow and pollutes our planet
before it reaches the shelves.
So forget your humanism that is based on all mighty fantasies and not on
our real world capacity. Feeding the poor and make them as dumb as us
will kill the planet.
In China every week a new coal power plant did start to operate and thus
energy/production is cheap because the real working people are not paid
and only higher party members get a share of the wealth. But halve of
the China production is garbage - made from uncontrolled base materials
- you can even buy in Walmart and of course online temu, Alibaba.
I'm lucky as I will not see the flooding of Florida and most large
cities at shores around 2100... But may be next lab virus will solve the
issue...
J.W.
On 26.12.2024 20:54, Robin wrote:
In reply to Jürg Wyttenbach's message of Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:24:31 +0100:
Hi Jürg,
[snip]
There are no hunger games running.
Its about a missing social structure and reason in/for live. In the Gaza
strip the times are so boring and anger so high that people want to win
a war with their womb (10 kids each wive) , same in Africa etc..
In Western world, with seductive freedom enough money to survive we miss
to "produce" children and our birth rates are around 1 child/couple.
It is precisely because the Western World is wealthy that the population there
is on the decline.
That's why we should make everyone wealthy.
There is nothing else intrinsically different between the Western World, and
the Third World.
In the middle ages, the birth rate in Europe was higher too.
Poor populations tend to have more children to take care of the parents in
their old age, because there are no or
severely inadequate social support programs in poor countries, and due to poor
medical support/hunger, many infants die,
so parents have more children to compensate.
So we must not stop hunger. We must stop the unsocial/inhuman behavior
of western/China rulers that pour resources (medicine, fake religion)
into under developed countries.
If you grow the population (reduce hunger) then you will kill the planet
even faster.
No, see above.
*So key is:: Learn to shrink the population! (and economy)*
Something you don't learn in Harvard the church of Pluto.
This method doesn't work. Witness the rapid population growth in the poorest
countries.
Making them wealthy and educated instead, along with the availability of
contraceptives, is both more benign, and more
effective.
All the advanced races in the Universe have learnt this lesson.
If you feed the dumb at the end you are the dumb. It's hard to grasp but
I condemn Western development of the south countries since 40 years
because most of these places are ecologically unstable and cannot self
sustain an increased population without our Big Pharma that likes these
Guinea pigs...
So feeding without enforcing self sustaining rules is a "mad" thing and
just the classic Christmass reflex.
Which self sustaining rules are in effect in the West?
My point of view has nothing to do with Christmas.
[snip]
Real wealth can come from a modern manufacturing economy (witness the rapid
increase of the middle class in China). For
that, two things are needed:-
1) Abundant energy, preferably both cheap and clean. (This also makes 100%
recycling possible.)
2) The knowledge of how to make use of it.
CF may be the solution for the first. Education is the solution for the second.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
Drive your electric car every second day and recharge it from solar panels on
your roof on the alternate days.
The other days, drive your spouses car, and do the same with it.
"Charge when the Sun shines".
--
Jürg Wyttenbach
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