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Twitching in the mud
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A more optimistic view - but whether it turns out to be true fact, or whistle-in-the-dark fiction has yet to be seen. Environmental sciences are just not so very accurate and the data is now suspect as some scientists have fiddled/imaginatively developed the data. Enviromental science is now a business/industry with jobs, careers, grants etc at stake and only available to those who view things in the 'correct' way - so until environmental sciences return to being disciplines rather than vested view-points; ask questions, the probing questions about the original data. Of course there is more but the reader should do some home-work and have an open mind without bias. Gods come and go, and The Green God is just another one that will probably hit the dust. Mostly the environmental issues are caused by the billions of human population.
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Causes and Effects. Glib solutions such as 'Going Green'; whilst very sweet will not give solutions - frankly, the true answer lies in addressing the numbers of human population - and that means better education, responsible politics, and tackling irresponsible aspects of religions, particularly matters of birth-control etc Some sort of easy social science debate will not hack it.
And now there is a new sensible? Government in the UK - so get the quality of Science back on the agenda!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Some may point to the advantages of vegetarian diet – well maybe, but the fundamental problem keeps coming back to number, the over population of Planet Earth by people – and this leads to solutions that demand a lot more thought encompassing politics, religious bigotry, addressing poor education etc Simple vegetarianism and ‘going green’ just will not hack it – sorry.

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‘... the Renaissance created such a boom in the market for art and architecture, because Italian bankers like the Medici made fortunes by applying Oriental mathematics to money. The Dutch Republic prevailed over the Hapsburg Empire because having the world’s first modern stock market was financially preferable to having the world’s biggest silver mine. The problems of the French monarchy could not be resolved without a revolution because a convicted Scots murderer had wrecked the French financial system by unleashing the first stock market bubble and bust. It was Nathan Rothschild as much as the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. It was financial folly, a self destructive cycle of defaults and devaluations, that turned Argentina from the world’s sixth richest country in the1880s into the inflation-ridden basket case of the 1980s . . . Planet Finance is beginning to dwarf Planet Earth ...’.
from the book ‘The Ascent of Money’ by Niall Ferguson.
For the record I am pro-capitalist and anti-socialist, and do not subscribe to bank-bashing; but with billions more mouths to feed by 2050 the considerations of consumerism and consumption become problems not of luxury, but survival.
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