> MP>Oh, of course we can!  All we have to do is give in and stop using cars and
>   >start eating the bugs and the lab-grown goo they caringly supply us with...
>   >while they sit back and eat steaks and fly in private jets.

> The infamous 'They'..    B)

In this case, some of "they" have names... Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Greta
Thunberg (sp?)... those "theys".  

> Plus there's another issue at work. Now that it's mostly warmer and
> dryer in a lot of areas you hear about how many more forest fires
> there are now compared to even the recent past . Trees are known to
> soak up carbon but that means they release it all at once when they
> burn. And the melting permafrost is releasing carbon that has been
> trapped under the ice for hundreds or thousands of years so, once it
> starts, there's almost no way to stop it..

Some of what you describe here... drier in places and wetter in others...
is man-made.  When you are diverting large amounts of water into areas to
create a desert oasis for the rich... complete with many well kept golf
courses per-capita... and away from the fertile crop areas, forests, and
mountains, you are changing the likelihood of rain in those previously wet
areas.  They are not as humid as they should be because the water the rain
cycle feeds off of has been diverted elsewhere.  So the forested parts get
drier and burn more easily.

> There are lots of numbers if you try to look that up but most are
> based on being able to feed the population, not on the population
> not doing any harm to the world. Most estimates come out a lot
> lower than the current population though.

Yeah, feeding the population has always been the challenge.

Mike

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