tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628625080088746432.post837156844355978420..comments2022-11-21T05:34:42.098-05:00Comments on State of the Environment - État de l'Environnement: Climate Change AdaptationGrace Barrassohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02818638483633715905noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628625080088746432.post-92038011542977453742010-03-26T20:24:24.313-04:002010-03-26T20:24:24.313-04:00Will climate change be seen as the next emerging i...Will climate change be seen as the next emerging issue? Probably not. Those who gain benefit for it have far to much power to prevent this for happening...<br /><br />I believe the emerging trend goes as follows: governments acting more an more as problem managers and less an less as social solution architects. The tipping point will be achieved as Western societies reach peak oil. From there on is downhill... Now more than ever communities must unite and revert this alarming trend before is to late. <br /><br />They must take control of the channels through which influence and opinion is shape. Transform ideas into matter and ultimately make this revolutionary actions matter.<br /><br />A.Andrés Restrepohttp://twitter.com/AndresRestreponoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628625080088746432.post-25863649896005318982010-02-26T10:38:00.632-05:002010-02-26T10:38:00.632-05:00Grace and all other readers,
Referring to my earl...Grace and all other readers,<br /><br />Referring to my earlier comment, I wanted to share with you this article from Journal of Health Science, released in 2009.<br /><br />http://jhs.pharm.or.jp/data/55%281%29/55_125.pdf<br /><br />It shows clear relationship between population, CO2 concentration in atmosphere and global temperature increase.<br /><br />My sincere advice is that nature will itself regulate to respond to anthropogenic agression. From another article I've seen earlier, much older, there are some other interesting findings relatively to the same topic.<br /><br />http://www.strom.clemson.edu/becker/prtm320/commons/popco2.html<br /><br />Have a good reading!Marc Brousseaunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628625080088746432.post-36056070462854110172010-02-25T11:27:57.579-05:002010-02-25T11:27:57.579-05:00Hello Grace,
It's unfortunately an equilibriu...Hello Grace,<br /><br />It's unfortunately an equilibrium matter between economics, politics and business, on which must be based any answer to climate change.<br /><br />I assisted last week to a presentation made by Karel Ménard from David Suzuki Foundation (I hope to get it) where he made a clear link between temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentration. He added also a world population curve evolution that made me think this may be a fundamental cause of climate change, since it correlated the atmospheric CO2 concentration and then temperature. Rapidly seen, it looked really that human activities are at the source of this present climate change. <br /><br />So which are the solutions? There is probably none unique solution, but if anthropogenic influence must decrease on climate change, this calls for reduction of human activity on Earth. But if this activity doesn't decrease, it must be made differently, but how? <br /><br />I'm frightened to say that, but does this means that a reduction of the world population is now necessary? After all, within only a century, we passed from a population of around 1 billion up to now near of 8 billions. This is a lot of CO2 only emitted by breathing, and an aspect never really examined for CO2 increase in atmosphere.<br /><br />Industries are part too, as well as transportation. But for transportation, nothing immediate will be done even if this activity has a contribution percentage in Québec higher than the one of the industry. But industry is right on MDDEP target.<br /><br />To follow...Marc Brousseaunoreply@blogger.com