Burn Baby Burn
The
rain forest in South America's Amazon is burning and suddenly world nations
have become alarmed because this rain forest supplies 20 percent of the world's
oxygen.
There
wasn't a noticeable alarm raised when Africa reduced its rain forest to assist
farming interests and no one is discussing the reduction of large forests areas
in the United States during the past two hundred years to accommodate a massive
increase in population. Where was all
this concern when California fires, during the last four years, devastated
several hundred-thousand acres of forest land?
The
world is facing, according to environmentalists, a ruinous "Greenhouse Gas"
phenomenon with various carbon reducing techniques being suggested that might
save the planet from total destruction.
The
lingering question arises: "Do the occupants of South America, or any country
on our planet, have the right to cut down and burn oxygen producing forests?"
If
the answer is "yes," what then?
California has decided to outlaw single use plastic and have put in
place several carbon reducing laws regarding everything from automobile
emissions to industrial pollution. But,
is this a viable and long term solution?
The answer can be revealed by asking another question: "Who can we blame for polluting our ocean
with plastic or filling the air with carbon dioxide and methane gas?" The manufacturer or industrialist merely
provides the product, it takes a human to actually commit the crime. A few thousand cars on the world's highways
are of little consequence, but millions and billions of autos provide all the
pollution necessary for a world crisis.
The
real problem, and one that these brilliant world leaders are reluctant to identify,
is over-population. Planet Earth is
burdened with too many two-legged, upright homo-sapiens. When it comes to feeding a starving community,
trees will be sacrificed to provide food - this is common sense.
Can nature
control population? The estimated U.S.
fertility rate for 2014 was 1.86 children per woman which is below the
replacement approximate fertility rate of 2.1.
In 2012, US fertility
rate was lower than that of France (2.01), Australia (1.93) and the United Kingdom (1.92).
The fact
that U.S. population growth is the highest of any industrialized nation is due
to immigration which more than offsets the declining fertility rate.
There is
little doubt that population control is a matter to be solved by human planning
and intelligence. A declining fertility
rate will not solve over-population if other areas engage in unlimited child
birth and migrate to less populated areas.
California
is currently faced with an affordable housing crisis, but is engaged in
increasing its homeless population by welcoming thousands of illegal migrants.
When
the nations of the world finally decide its time to bring their population in
line with some sort of balance of nature, the solution to Green House Gases
will be finally realized.
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