She:"Hey we're going to plant some trees along the street. We have to take part in stopping the global warming. Come, you are invited"
Me: "okay I promise. thanx".
And yes she has 20 pair of unused shoes, 30 unused purses and I don't know how many number of fancy unused clothes, and she drives her car just for 400 m travel to her friend's house.
20 pair of shoes, 30 purses, 100 clothes = lots of trees cut, gallons of fossil fuel consumed for their production.
- The higher the demand the higher the environment threat will be.
1 gallon of gasoline = 1500 kg of carbohydrate.
Energy required to travel 400 m = 0.5 kg carbohydrate.
Gasoline needed to travel 400 m = 1/4 gallon .
1/4 gallon of gasoline = just count it yourself.
What a waste! She planted one tree and her laziness produces CO2 for 3 trees.
She had planted one tree and cut off many.
So God said in the Quran that He had created earth and heaven for the sake of all men, and he also said in the bible if He feeds birds so God to you men. So God promised there should be food for everyone.
But all I see is people dying for food, people killing each other for land and other natural resources (China vs Tibet, Russia vs Georgia, USA vs Iraq, Israel vs Palestine) , large group people in the world living below poverty line, etc. There isn't enough food for everyone! Had God lied?
Since 1980 human population has doubled from 2 billion to 4. Yes that's large. But guess, total food production has grown 4 times! It doesn't sound like the way Malthus told us about how population and food production grows, in fact it is the opposite! But why in the heck of world Malthus disaster is still happening? Hungers, wars, natural catastrophe, plague, etc to reduce human population to match natural resource availability?
Normally all human population requires only 2% of total solar energy that comes onto earth. It's smaller than any other species. But along the history, human population has used up to 70% of total solar energy. Lots larger than any other species.
The ancient meteor that came to earth thousands of years ago required 10 000 years to diminish 1200 species to extinction. But from 1900 to 2000, more than 5 000 species has extinct. Not by meteor. But by us. And we require only less than a hundred of years to do that.
Yep, the issue of climate change, global warming, wars and killing, hungers, epidemic disease, poverty, natural catastrophe, biological diversity threat, pollution, environmental damages, etc they are all actually in the same package. The one whole same issue. And they all are caused by just one same thing.
GREED.
OUR GREED.
No, God hadn't lied. Yes there are enough food for everyone. It's just that we're so greed. We're buying things we don;t need while they are hunger people out there, and we eat, drink, own more than we require, we always want more and more and more, consuming, sucking, squeezing the nature to produce stuffs we're so greed about. We killed not just our own species, but also other species, we eat a big whole bunch of meat just to satisfy our greed, generating poverty, hungers, wars, and get rid off the habitat of other species just to make place for our food and stuffs we're so greed about.
And she invited me to plant just one tree. Along the street. To stop global warming she said.
And she has 20 pair of unused shoes, 30 unused purses and I don't know how many number of fancy unused clothes, and she drives her car just for 400 m travel to her friend's house.
