Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/24/2008 10:42:52 AM PDT by RightSideNews
The world can have carbon control or it can have food and energy security. The former means reduced energy supply while the latter requires greatly expanded energy supply, which in turn, for at least the next 3 or 4 decades, means substantially greater carbon expansion. A few rich nations, accustomed to energy and food security for about 50 years now, want carbon control to prevail. The rest of the world seeks food and energy security since billions of people today have little of either.
Roughly about 600 million people live in societies or polities (not nations) where carbon control is politically fashionable and 6 billion is societies or polities where food and energy security are quotidian challenges. It is carbon versus bread.
The emergent great divide in the world today, that threatens to widen even further all the other fractures and fissures and chasms that contribute to global disunity and conflict, is the one between the advocates of carbon control at all costs versus those pursuing energy and food security, irrespective of consequences. Quite explicitly, this great divide will roil global discussions, conferences, debates and most assuredly the global blogosphere (not known for its civility or even good grammar anyway) about free trade, international capital flows, resource capitalism or nationalism, international climate management, water management, technology cooperation, space and ocean laws and commercial development, intellectual property protection, military alliances, immigration, terrorism, role of international treaty and aid organizations and purpose of the UN.
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Since the human body is about 25% carbon and there are about 7 billion of them...the solution is simple and obvious.
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