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Global Health Deniers Seek Control of...
« on: January 28, 2010, 03:30:43 PM »
...EVERYthing:

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Continuing global economic growth "is not possible" if nations are to tackle climate change, a report by an environmental think-tank has warned. The New Economics Foundation (Nef) said "unprecedented and probably impossible" carbon reductions would be needed to hold temperature rises below 2C (3.6F).

..."There is no global, environmental central bank to bail us out if we become ecologically bankrupt." None of the existing models or policies could "square the circle" of economic growth with climate safety...

They then considered whether economic growth could be maintained while "retaining a good likelihood" of limiting the global average temperature to within 2C of pre-industrial levels. The report concluded that a growth rate of just 3%, the "carbon intensity" of the global economy would need to fall by 95% by 2050 from 2002 levels. This would require an average annual reduction of 6.5%. However, the authors said that the world's carbon intensity had "flatlined" between 2000 and 2007.

"Magic bullets - such as carbon capture and storage, nuclear or even geo-engineering - are potentially dangerous distractions from more human-scale solutions..." "At the moment, magic bullets... are getting much of the funding and political attention, but are missing the targets," Dr Johnson said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8478770.stm

But, to achieve zero growth we would have to make sure no independent efforts ever moved past the status quo. We would have to competely regulate everything from who goes into business, what they produce, how much they produce, who may consume, the population cannot grow, we must legislate who owns what.

Gosh!

It's a good thing we have such brave souls to tell us how to manage every facet of our existence...or even if we should be allowed to exist.




BTW - This is the same ship of fools that gave us the absurd "Happy Planet Index" which currently rates the USA as 114/143.

According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."