Ocean Acidification Is Climate Change's 'Equally Evil Twin,' NOAA Chief Says

[Nihil]

25. Just picking up on one phrase there ...

> An urgent, voluntary reduction in world population would probably give us
> the best chance to avoid the worst effects of the converging crisis.

I disagree. The volunteers would be those very people who are already concerned
about the situation, who are already sufficiently aware of the timescales & impacts
of BAU and who have the altruism/heroism to "do the right thing" even when it
means they pay the full price for it.

Unfortunately, these are the very people who the planet NEEDS, who the struggling
species NEED and who the rest of the human race NEEDS in order to transform in
the least painful & tragic fashion under the coming storm(s).

If such a voluntary reduction occurred, the remaining people would merely turn
back to their TV, push their snouts further into the trough and then breed some
more uncared-for bastards to consume faster than before.

To borrow your own phrase, we would be wilfully throwing away even more of our
"sense of the sacred" - like burning fossil fuel in the form of natural gas in order
to obtain fossil fuel in the form of tar sand oil ... and then burning that whilst
wondering why the climate is a-changing ...