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Brettongarcia

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13. Overpopulation causes fuel use & global warming. Catholic anti-birth control policy makes it worse
Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:00 AM
Aug 2014

My idea is that overpopulation causes global warming: more people means more consumption of fuel; that means more greenhouse gas. So in short? Overpopulation is really the decisive root cause of global warming.

They say that the major factor in climate change, is overconsumption of fossil fuels, say. But think carefully: why are we using more fuels? It is especially because WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE.

Learn to think analytically.

I've been working on this issue for years. I've worked with and for the head of the EPA. My information comes from well known facts. Then working out the implications of those facts. Using reason, and intelligence: induction and deduction.

There are many factors in Global Warming. But figure it out, rationally: 1) Global warming comes from CO2. 2) Carbon Dioxide is produced by, critically, consumption of fossil fuels. 3) People consume fossil fuels. 4) The more people, the more consumption. 5) The more consumption, the more C02. Therefore? Overpopulation leads to global warming. (By the way, its not all industrialization: burning the fields, rotting vegetation, also contribute CO2; clearing away vegetation, trees, grass, slows consumption of carbon dioxide).

We need people to think analytically.

Yes there are many other factors, aside from overpopulation. And decreasing fuel consumption would help. But interestingly? Decreasing population worldwide - not just in China as I have already noted to you several times in effect - would totally solve the global warming problem. And this is easily done, nonviolently; by birth control.

If only religion, the Roman Catholic Church, was not opposing that at every turn.

(It is argued that China and the “Third World” are often overpopulated, but don't cause global warming, because they don't have as much consumption. But? They do have some – and it is increasingly significant. While overpopulation in the industrialized world of course, is the major problem, China is industrializing. Then too, China's population is already so large - that just a slight increase in per capita consumption, adds up to a fatal amount).

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