Revolutionary Global Warming Solutions

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Revolutionary Global Warming Solutions

• PNWIS of the AWMAOctober 2007
• By Anna Carter
• Montana Tech

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Agenda

• Evidence
• Global warming
• Population
• Energy
• Global sustainability
• Solutions
• Discussion

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Evidence of Global Warming

• Temperature Increase
• Extreme weather
• Melting ice masses
• Rising sea levels
• Drinking Water Shortage
• Poverty
• Famines

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Global Warming Politics

• Media and Politics
• Natural
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• Man-made
• An Inconvenient Truth
• Treated as a political fad
• Green is in
• If man-made We can make changes

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Current Strategies

• Renewable energy
• Nuclear energy (fear)
• Wind (not consistent)
• Solar (site specific technology)
• Biomass (not plentiful)
• Geothermal (Contamination and location concerns)
• Ethanol (not cost effective)
• Decrease CO2
• Carbon Sequestration (Potential aquifer
  contamination, induced seismicity, and deadly
  venting)
• No one has come up with a solution yet that will
  decrease CO2 production to slow down global
  warming
• Distracting us from the real problem

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Overpopulation

• 6,602,224,000 people
• Tripled in 72 years
• 2050 9.4 billion
• People produce CO2!
• 1kg /person/day

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PopulationEffects on Energy

• Fossil fuels took millions of years to create and
  are being consumed in hundreds of years
• U.S. citizen consumes on average 327 million
  BTU/year
• 255 years remaining in coal
• Current oil reserves should last max. 50 years
• Renewable energy methods
• Not enough to sustain a population growing
  1.1/year

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PopulationEffects on Energy

• People demand equal benefits
• We cant stop using energy
• Societys existence depends on energy
• Cant sustain current population unless energy is
  used at the current rate
• Technology will not solve every problem

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Global SolutionPopulation Control

• Population reduction will reduce
• Energy Consumption
• Production of CO2 and other greenhouse gases
• Strain on ecosystems from man-made pollution
• Strain on social aspects

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Global Sustainability

• 2 billion people
• Continue renewable energy production/technologies
• Good standards of living world wide

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Population ControlSolutions

• Birth Control Methods
• Limit number of descendants individual can
  produce
• Tax laws which penalize for having more than 1-2
  children
• Taxes on all born children
• Sterilization
• Once individual produces 1-2 children,
  individuals will be sterilized
• Non-Birth Control Events
• Plague
• Starvation
• War/Genocide

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We Need To Act Now!
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Are We Willing To Do What it Takes?