tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560828203185863302.post7075314058167336723..comments2020-08-19T19:44:43.843+01:00Comments on A Very Different Earth<small><sup>™</sup></small>: An Earth Too Hot For Humans?Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03846478957198693337noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8560828203185863302.post-78452335224969167622013-04-12T04:28:29.441+01:002013-04-12T04:28:29.441+01:00Your finding of severe stress in work really makes...Your finding of severe stress in work really makes it urgent to demand 100 percent reduction in greenhouse emissions immediately in the key culprits for global warming and environmental problems: Australia and Southern Africa. Those people or communities affected in their working capacity have every right to sue Australia’s polluting coal and mineral corporations - and its pro-freeway politicians - and demand that they pay to give Australia a rigidly mandated goal of one hundred percent renewable energy and a constitutionally demanded one hundred percent of private and government transport investment in railways. Coal mining would need to be stopped and private cars absolutely banned from Australia.<br /><br />Owing to their extremely infertile soils and long growing seasons, these regions have <a href="http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/10-1523.1" rel="nofollow">extremely low primary productivity</a> but do not lose carbon to respiration as the much younger and more fertile soils of the northern and western hemispheres do.<br /><br />In addition, Australia and Southern Africa, without tectonic uplift to produce land too steep to farm, have a large comparative advantage in food production over much more sustainable lands in cooler climates. They also have not lost to glaciation or mountain building reserves of essential industrial minerals such as iron ore, bauxite, manganese and titanium that are inexhaustible on their weathered soils. They are also very rich in coal.<br /><br />The result is that these countries are under negligible economic or political pressure to produce a more sustainable energy system, and their greenhouse emissions are among the highest in the world especially relative to income.<br /><br />In ecological terms, the allowable per capita greenhouse emissions of Australia and Southern Africa are <i>orders of magnitude</i> lower than in the northern and western hemispheres. This is because of <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/2001/lovegrove2001a.pdf" rel="nofollow">the extremely low energy consumption</a> of native animals in Australia and Southern Africa due to scanty food supply - especially of animal foods - and the effect of global warming on the exceptional biological diversity of these regions.<br /><br />In order to do this, Europe, North America and East Asia need to realise they have a common interest in fighting polluting Australia and South Africa with the tropical nations. They will need to redirect money spent on improving their own energy efficiency to demanding zero emissions in Australia and Southern Africa - and being willing to punish them with at the very least loss of essential fertiliser minerals if they cannot meet these severe targets faultlessly.jpbenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02664829103165280260noreply@blogger.com