Global Warming. The Real Reason – 2nd Edition!

I’m moving away from anything related to anxiety for the moment, and I wanted to comment on something that has jumped up and hit me this morning because it is something we are hearing more often about today, and that is our climate. I have quite strong opinions on this matter if you have read this post:

I’m afraid I won’t apologise if I repeat myself from that post to this, because what I have to say is a very serious matter, and I can’t help but think that the growth of our population is the root cause of our global warming and climate crisis. I feel so strongly about it I would say, ‘I know’ it is the root cause because, after all, we the people create the demand; it’s that simple.

It concerns me more now that I am going to be a grandfather; what kind of world will my little Granddaughter be living in, in fifty-sixty years time, I hate to think? And just because I have these opinions, I have no right to tell my daughter not to have children, and I think I know what she would say to me if I even tried to talk to her about the subject, never mind try to tell her never to have children.

Everyone has the right to become a parent; I am one, but then I just have one child, and I know that the problem stems from families who feel they have to have three, four, five or more children; that is what I don’t understand. So I know what my daughter would say if I tried to discuss having children, and I know what people would say if governments tried to dictate the number of children they could have, but the leaders don’t have to remain silent on the subject.

Surely they could let their countries know that this is a major cause of our planet’s problems and at least ask their countries people to help out by having fewer children. I’d imagine our own leader Boris Johnson couldn’t do that considering the number of offspring’s he has by different women, and I believe baby number seven is on the way, so if he stood up to ask his countrymen and women to help control the birth rate, ‘hypocrite’ would be the first word thrown back at him, and rightly so.

Some who have not read the post above may ask why this has such an effect on our planet’s problems. Well, it is people that create demand; whichever and wherever we go, people create demand. Land to build, cutting down forests to build on the land and the houses needed. Natural ingredients to make materials needed to meet the demand. More houses, more cars, more food, more clothes, more factories are required to make the things we need. It’s all more, more and more and all these things add to the climate issues we have, and it is all needed because people need them, and the more people we have on our planet, the more demand that is created. With more demand comes higher temperatures, creating more global problems and causing our planet more issues, higher temperatures, more emissions etc etc. How many people need a bottle of water, a plastic bag, a pair of shoes or anything in life, even the small things and will never care where they came from? But they all need to be made, they all create demand!

With this I would like to draw your attention to worldometers.info, and the information that is on the website and in some respects it is frightening, starting with today’s population growth at 90,000, and it’s only 10.00am UK time, it is a town the size of Stevenage or Chester, and that’s quite big. Sure we have room for these people; I have just come back from the Isle of Skye and travelling up into my homeland, we saw masses of land that we can build towns on, but who would want to live there, because people want things to be close to them, and not live in a new town built in the middle of nowhere. Still, we have problems, and unless something is done, the human race will be its own downfall. And that may sound extreme, but unfortunately, it’s a fact.

So let’s look at some facts to back up my theory, and again I will ask you to go to worldometers.info and look at some of their facts. Since writing the part about the world population being at 90,000 today alone, I have popped away to have a shower and get changed, and in the space of those fifteen-twenty minutes, the population has grown by over 6,000. That’s frightening!

But look at some of the other information; we only have forty-two years of oil left, forty-two years, wow! We only have one hundred and fifty-six years left of natural gas and four hundred years left of coal, then what do we do? I don’t know, and I don’t really have to worry as I won’t be here. It would be a miracle if I was here when the last barrel of oil was produced, it would be my 100^th year, and I don’t see that happening.

And closer to home in the UK, we had this hitting the headlines last year. How can we as a country possibly run out of water in some areas within twenty years? Worse maybe is, what are we doing about it now? Because I don’t hear it spoken about, something as important as running out of water just gets put into ‘file 13’ and not discussed, not brought to the public’s attention, and so ignored.

What do we do about it? Do we wait for fifteen – sixteen years and then panic and start building water pipelines from the lochs and lakes of our country to the areas affected? I don’t know, but we need to do something, not sit back and hope things will be okay. I say I don’t know, but I adopt my ‘common sense approach, and yes, I have ideas that would help, some very simple ones at that, but unless those in power do something, we will have problems:

And so back to our problems, we are running out of water, we are running out of coal, natural gas and oil, and why is that? Well, people need them all, and all we do is continue to breed, which I know we need to do to survive as a race, but we need to do something.

The population of the world is growing by approx. 85,000,000 people per year, that’s a country the size of Turkey. Multiply that by ten years, and we have another 850,000,000 people on the planet. To put it into perspective, that would be the third-highest populated country in the world. The second is India with 1.38 billion; the fourth is America at 330,000,000. But think about those figures and every twenty years we are increasing the world’s population by approx. 1.7 billion people more than the population of China – EVERY TWENTY YEARS. Imagine where we will be in one hundred years’ time? Thankfully I won’t be here, but I wonder how many people will be because our planet cannot cope with this growth and that, unfortunately, is a fact. There are no if’s, but’s and maybe’s about it; it cannot cope, yet all we do is add to the problem by adding more and more people to the planet.

I remember discussing this in a geography lesson at school when I was about fourteen years old, and we spoke about cities expanding and the growth of the populations. I asked my teacher if there was a possibility that one day our country would be one massive city because there was so much growth taking place, and he said in theory yeas, realistically, it wouldn’t happen. Were we discussing the world population issues some forty-four or so years ago? I believe we were!

I think it’s sad, and to confirm this, just check previous population levels, and I make it that in 1950, only seventy years ago, the world population sat at about two billion people. I’m sorry, folks, but we cannot sustain this growth, and as I keep saying that is a fact, it is impossible, and God knows what life will be like in two hundred years’ time if, in fact, there is a life, which unfortunately and sadly I just can’t see!

I’m sorry if this is pretty much doom and gloom; what concerns me most is that everyone is ignoring this rather sad important aspect of today’s society and its problems. I hear people standing up blaming Governments for the mess we are in, yet it’s not the Governments fault; it is the fault of us, the human race, and our incessant need to breed, and that many people just adopt the ‘don’t care, not my problem’ attitude, as often seen and heard when people are asked what they would give up to help the planet – nothing. I saw a programme recently about people cutting down tree’s illegally in the Amazon rainforests, and the guy wasn’t bothered about what he was doing, he was only bothered about providing for his family and if that meant cutting tree’s down illegally then so be it. How many of those eighty-five million people each year (or their equivalent) will feel the same, as well as the eight billion already on the planet?

To my soon to be born Granddaughter, I say ‘sorry,’ not for global warming, that is natural with the growth of the population, that is what I will apologise for. Unfortunately, I can do nothing about that, even if people took note today; I fear it is too late – sorry.

And as I finish this article, the world population has grown by 103,000 today alone, and it’s only 11.15.

And as I go to hit the ‘post’ button on my site at 16.45, it sits at 153,000 – help!

Have a good day, thanks for reading, and stay safe.