Why we are screwed…..

Gas, oil, coal are not really the issue. It’s the 8+ billion and rising unchecked population that will kill the system.

I’m sick of the guilt applied to Australia and the way we live. We are a large country with a small, mobile and high tech population with generally excellent services and a range of options and aspirations that each individual can attain if they have a go. WE LIVE A LUXURIOUS LIFE THAT SHOULD BE THE ENVY OF THE WORLD!! But yet we are made to feel guilty for the failures of other countries and their over population and subsequent failure of their basic systems including ecosystems. 8 billion people requires rainforest to be destroyed, farmland to be abused and fisheries to be raped. A small high tech, healthy and free global population could have seen this globe face a different path but it is inevitable human locusts will destroy it no matter how many fancy windmills and solar panels we make. A small world population could have solved the energy issue with the blink of an eye but powering up 8+ billion to help most rise from poverty is a fallacy.

I don’t feel guilty for any of the worlds global warming issues at all. Again we are the model in most aspects. Small population could have meant we are buffered from major environmental issues cause we haven’t stressed the system. Lets look to China, india, Us and the swath of countries in Africa who have no control of their populations or who have economic polices to increase them. It’s a case of do something about your people first or bugger off and leave me alone.

Carbon tax my bum, we should put in place a population tax and then see what happens.

end rant.

Agree with you. But a bit like the COVID arguments, badly handled and should have been done differently, but we are where we are!
Uncontrolled reproduction - acknowledging the background issues are complex - is the problem - because it is resource depletion across the board is the issue really and that is population driven.
Planet can support ~billion for ever essentially - you can argue over the extract number but 10-15% of where we are.
I don’t see a solution beyond nature collapsing our population.
We could introduce non-homicidal depopulation over 100 years which would possibly work, but can you see that being tolerated!

The anthropogenic climate pundits have been saying we have less than 5 years to make a change or the planet is doomed for more than 20y. 
Eg. build very expansive desalination plant as we would run our of water by 2012.  2012 came and all the dames were overflowing, and still overflowing....


Poor climate buggers they are going off the agenda, people have bigger problems to worry about.  pandemic, crime and violence, unemployment, corruption and poverty...  There are the issues that will be changing elected governments across the world.  Also issues the main stream media do not focus on except pandemic fear mongering....  


www.statista.com/chart/7008/what-does-the-world-worry-about/

The Olympics should change their logo from coloured rings to a big fat white elephant. Qld was the only contender cause all the others have wised up to the economic hardship that the Olympics brings. The QLD premier is a bit of a fool.

Australia spends way to much on sport, punches way above country's population and economy.  It is like the ancient Roman empire's bread and circuses while the country rotted from the inside.

"Roman politicians passed laws in 140 CE to keep the votes of poorer citizens, by introducing a grain dole: giving out cheap food and entertainment, "bread and circuses", became the most effective way to rise to power. giving the people bred and circuses"

Power is a very complicated issue.  In Spain they had massive private solar initiative.  Huge reduction on the country power output. 

But the power companies started going broke as they still have to maintain the power infrastructure (power lines and transformers) to get power to hospitals and businesses and peoples houses in times of reduced solar radiation.  Maintaining power infrastructure is almost as costly as generating the electricity.  Then there is always the base load like in the mornings and late afternoons when there is a massive power draw,  that wind and solar cant cope with.....

Not enough regulation is the problem sometimes. Like with the roof insulation debacle. Several young men died because the grubbyment are incompetent fools with zero understanding of human behaviour. And because they put a third rate singer in charge.

Buddy ... Nature IS collapsing us.  Disease, weather extremes, social engineering gone wrong, serious resource depletion ... an increasingly belligerent China.  Some impacts are external nature and some are coded into our own internal nature.

We are frogs in a pot being brought to the boil.  

I see my job as crawling up on top of the other cooked frogs to stay out of the water until the fire goes out and its safe to go swimming again.