WHAT? Bio-ethanol and other biofuels NOT CO2 free?

[August]

All carbon reducing efforts are going to fail, as long as we continue to ignore the out of control human population explosion.

6 Billion people on the planet and rising. There's your global warming cause right there...

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by August

All carbon reducing efforts are going to fail, as long as we continue to ignore the out of control human population explosion.

6 Billion people on the planet and rising. There's your global warming cause right there...

So what do we do? Same as the Chinese?

[peterloo]

Originally Posted by Etienne

So what do we do? Same as the Chinese?

Actually family planning counts

With only 2 babies allowed, we're sure that the population does not grow in size

As all you know, this policy has already been in force in China for more than 2 decades, and we predict that, the Chinese population will reach the apex of 1.5 to 1.6 billions, than fall.

India can follow suit. It might be hard for their government to pursade people to have less baby, since having more baby means more blessings in their culture (same as that of Chinese)

I can assure that India population will fall soon if the government enforce this throughoutly

The only problem that I can imagine, is that the elderly takes more proportion of the population, who needs lots of resources to take care of.

[JetSnake]

Originally Posted by Etienne

So what do we do? Same as the Chinese?

Are you fishing for an answer that would get someone banned?

[Hylander_1314]

I'm going to put money on the future and ion propulsion. But then again, I thought that by the year 2,000, technology would give man the ability to corner God, and take a photo of him in technicolor. Was I way off on that idea.

[Blacklight]

I'm going to put money on the future and ion propulsion. But then again, I thought that by the year 2,000, technology would give man the ability to corner God, and take a photo of him in technicolor. Was I way off on that idea.

Well... the WMAP satelite has taken pretty detailed pictures of the cosmic background radiation all around us in the universe which is actually light from The Big Bang (Specifically it's a picture of the universe when it was only 300000 years old when it was just barely starting to cool off enough for single particles to form).
That's pretty damn close to a picture of GOD right there.

Also there's going to be three space probes that are going to be launched in another few years that will use lasers aimed at each other over millions of miles to detect gravity waves that are basically the vibrations from the big bang (Yes.. the big bang was so powerful that the universe is still vibrating from it)

We're getting pretty damn close to that picture.

I will now stop hijacking the thread and return you to your regularly scheduled argument about alternative fuels.

[August]

Originally Posted by Etienne

So what do we do? Same as the Chinese?

We have to do something. The Chinese solution of limiting couples to two children seems like the least draconian.

[Trex]

I regret that I cannot find the link now, but within the past month or so, there was a news item saying that the PRC govt was considering relaxing that one-child rule as they were concerned about their work force. Did anybody else see that?