Friday, April 10, 2009

What should the government and the public do to reduce the problem?

The HK Observatory says HK"s annual mean temperature is expected to rise by 3.5 degrees Celsius,to around 26.5 degrees,by the last decade of this century.What should the government and the public do to reduce the problem?


The answer is obvious, both government and people should restrict the release of CO2. But the problem is much greater than that as we see only the top of the pollution iceberg.

For a long time, humans were no more than about 50 millions on earth. That's what the earth could sustain. Then, about 12,000 years ago, the gathering hunter started cultivating the earth and keep cattle. That enabled him to increase the population. When I was born in 1948, there was about 2.5 billion humans on earth. Today, we are about 6.7 billion.

Even if we reduce the CO2 release, we will still pollute the earth in a way that life will become very difficult in the future. Our only way to solve the problem is to slow down and eventually reduce the demographic explosion, and to use biotechnology to repair what is urgently needed. Gene manipulation is the only alternative. We have to do it very carefully but we already changed the 'natural' pattern of life 12,000 years ago when we started breeding cattle and selected corns to ease our demand on food.

Nothing anyone can do. Frankly, it is not a problem. You are being lied to.

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