Comments on: Keeping Cool in a World that's Hot, Flat, and Crowded http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/ Blogging the science and policy of global warming Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:13:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Sheryl Canter http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/comment-page-1/#comment-1909 Sheryl Canter Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:44:28 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/#comment-1909 mikes - what you say is so irrational that I hesitate to even respond. I googled "overpopulation" and founds thousands of articles on it. Here's one from the first page of the search results. Read it. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/25/overpopulation.overview/index.html mikes – what you say is so irrational that I hesitate to even respond. I googled "overpopulation" and founds thousands of articles on it. Here's one from the first page of the search results. Read it.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/25/overpopulation.overview/index.html

]]> By: mikes http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/comment-page-1/#comment-1884 mikes Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:09:11 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/#comment-1884 Sheryl, do the math! The population of the world can be housed in a geographic area the size of Texas and Oklahoma (add Kansas if you want some extra room). Or, just look at a nighttime view of the world: http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/grads/p/pesti/night/ . You'll see that the vast, vast majority of the world is dark (low population). As I have written numerous times: There are many genuine environmental problems. But global warming and WORLD overcrowding are not among them. Would it be a difficult challenge to move people from crowded areas into hospitable but lower population areas? Of course. But, it could be done with plenty of land to spare. Come on, think outside the box. That's where the solutions lie. Mike Mike Sheryl, do the math! The population of the world can be housed in a geographic area the size of Texas and Oklahoma (add Kansas if you want some extra room). Or, just look at a nighttime view of the world: http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/grads/p/pesti/night/ . You'll see that the vast, vast majority of the world is dark (low population).

As I have written numerous times: There are many genuine environmental problems. But global warming and WORLD overcrowding are not among them. Would it be a difficult challenge to move people from crowded areas into hospitable but lower population areas? Of course. But, it could be done with plenty of land to spare.

Come on, think outside the box. That's where the solutions lie.

Mike

Mike

]]> By: Sheryl Canter http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/comment-page-1/#comment-1882 Sheryl Canter Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:27:24 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/#comment-1882 Come on, Mike. You can't be serious. Some of the Earth is uninhabitable, and some of it needs to be used for things like growing food to support all those people living in cities, etc. The problems of overpopulation have been widely documented and are widely accepted - this is not controversial. Come on, Mike. You can't be serious. Some of the Earth is uninhabitable, and some of it needs to be used for things like growing food to support all those people living in cities, etc. The problems of overpopulation have been widely documented and are widely accepted – this is not controversial.

]]> By: mikes http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/comment-page-1/#comment-1881 mikes Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:00:37 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/#comment-1881 I'm still puzzling over the 'crowded' part. Did you know the entire population of earth could be comfortably housed in an area the size of Texas and Oklahoma? You need to get out of the (admittedly) crowded East and West Coast cities and learn about the wonderful quality of life in the completely uncrowded central U.S. I'm still puzzling over the 'crowded' part. Did you know the entire population of earth could be comfortably housed in an area the size of Texas and Oklahoma?

You need to get out of the (admittedly) crowded East and West Coast cities and learn about the wonderful quality of life in the completely uncrowded central U.S.

]]> By: Sheryl Canter http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/comment-page-1/#comment-1875 Sheryl Canter Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:59:48 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/#comment-1875 Hah! Good point. I guess the metaphor breaks down there. Hah! Good point. I guess the metaphor breaks down there.

]]> By: Peter Black http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/comment-page-1/#comment-1873 Peter Black Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:29:12 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/01/hot_flat_and_crowded/#comment-1873 Would Tom Friedman classify geothermal energy as hellish energy? Would Tom Friedman classify geothermal energy as hellish energy?

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