Increasing transportation and building energy use is not going to save the
planet.
It requires controlling the human population growth.
The Impact of Building Energy Standards on Saving the Planet.
Human population growth
Year
No. of
No. of
Human
Increase
Years
Humans
Increase
per Year
Apart
(millions)
(millions)
(millions)
BC
10,000
5
BC
3,000
7,000
25
20
0
0
3,000
250
225
0
1,700
1,700
700
450
0
1,800
100
1,000
300
10
1,900
100
1,600
600
16
1,930
30
2,000
400
67
1,960
30
3,000
1,000
100
1,975
15
4,000
1,000
267
1,987
12
5,000
1,000
417
2,000
13
6,000
1,000
462
2,010
10
7,000
1,000
700
2,015
5
8,000
1,000
1,600
The population of America is about 300 million, Europe's (Western, Eastern,
and Russia) is about 700 million, and in Japan and Korea it is about 200
million. There are about another 800 million in the rest of the world
(China, India, Brazil, etc.) with same standard of living. This represents
less than 30% of the world's population of 7,000 million. However, this 30%
use almost all of the earth's resources and is responsible for almost all of
the industrial pollution and global warming.
There is no population growth in the 30% segment of the population with a
high (energy wasting) standard of living, but their energy use per capita is
escalating at faster rate than the population which is escalating at an
alarming rate. If the other 70% population were to reach the same standard
of living as the energy wasters and polluters (the 30% segment) we would
have to consider "Global Heating". Standard of living might curb
population growth but it results in escalating energy use and atmospheric
pollution.
Industrial pollution would make life impossible on this planet if the other
70% of the world's population (which is escalating) were to reach the living
standards of the existing 30%. Industrial pollution is not the main threat.
At the present rate of human population growth, forests, vegetation, and
most large animal life will be devastated in a few hundred years. This has
happened in the past as with the dinosaurs.
Uncontrolled human population growth has destroyed forests and vegetation.
It is responsible for destroying animal life as well, particularly the large
mammals that require large amounts of forest and grassland to survive.
Tigers, lions, elephants, giraffes, rhinos and hippos are going join
dinosaurs as interesting science education in schools. Humans will soon be
competing for space on this planet only with rats, cockroaches, flies, and
insects. History has shown that the smaller creature will win.
