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...Human Swarm As the debate on carbon emissions and climate change heats up [Jan. 29], I am amazed many discussions ignore a main cause of environmental degradation: overpopulation. We've been breeding like locusts, filling all available space and devouring available resources. The planet can't sustain such population growth, particularly when everyone understandably aspires to a First World lifestyle. Tackling this problem raises difficult ethical and sociological issues, but if we ignore it, the consequences for humankind are unimaginable. Dick Keane Dublin
...Human Swarm As the debate on carbon emissions and climate change heats up [Jan. 29], I am amazed that a lot of discussions ignore one of the main causes of environmental degradation: overpopulation. We have been breeding like locusts, filling every available space and devouring all available resources. The planet simply cannot sustain such population growth, particularly when everyone understandably aspires to a First World lifestyle. Tackling this problem raises difficult moral, ethical and sociological issues. But if we ignore it, the consequences for humankind are unimaginable. Dick Keane Dublin...
Take, for example, environmentalists who advocate mandatory caps on carbon emissions. In order to halt global warming, reductions would need to be universal and compulsory, not sporadic and voluntary. Yet environmentalists still make individual efforts to reduce their carbon emissions—by buying a Prius, recycling, or paying a premium for wind energy...
...Justin Burnes works for Easy Being Green in Sydney and goes door to door offering a simple deal. He will replace the light bulbs in your home with high-efficiency globes that will cut your power bill; you assign your carbon rights to Easy Being Green, which gets abatement certificates and sells them to polluters. Last year, the company distributed 3 million bulbs to 500,000 homes. Even with public opinion turning green, Burnes says it can be a tough sell. "Offering people something for free is the major attraction," he says. "But it's still hard convincing older people...
...While the ground is shifting, many questions remain about greenhouse policies. How ambitious will emission reduction targets be? Is carbon trading a way to shift funds from taxpayers and consumers to renewable-energy entrepreneurs and big business? Will these potentially valuable carbon permits be given away or sold at auction? What will be the balance between gdp growth and the environment? Will politicians continue to undermine an open market? In N.S.W., for example, the state government has granted BlueScope an exemption from its carbon trading scheme or any future carbon tax to help establish a new steel plant at Port...