Overpopulation is our greatest enemy

In reference to the Sunday column by Paul Krugman, “The GOP’s punishment cure,” neither Krugman, the Democrats nor the Republicans have any understanding about the unemployment problem which the U.S. and all of the nations of the world are facing.

Since Earth is finite, the resources which Earth can provide humanity are finite. Therefore, Earth cannot supply the resources to permit an ever-growing human population to have an ever-growing number of jobs.

The unemployment problem is not caused by the monetary or political philosophy of either party. It is caused by the fact that humanity is attempting to maintain continued economic and population growth on the finite Earth, which is impossible.

Our failure to understand the fact that Earth is finite will lead to wars and the deaths of billions.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/dec/21/overpopulation-our-greatest-enemy/

It is important to understand that U.S. power plants produce a scant four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, compared to China and India, which together emit more than 20 percent of all GHG emissions.

Shuttering all U.S. coal plants would have a negligible effect on the environment: equivalent to decreasing sea level rise by less than the thickness of three sheets of paper.

That's because the industry has put its money where its mouth is in making investments to use coal more cleanly and efficiently, and U.S. power plants are leading the way in developing clean-coal technologies.

Despite these hard truths, however, the Environmental Protection Agency’s is mandating new carbon regulations that if enacted will cost Americans up to $8.8 billion in 2030.

It seems that the only sacrifices being offered will come at the unwilling expense of American industry, American workers and American families.

Even in the face of mounting dissatisfaction with his climate agenda stateside and a cold shoulder from his fellow world leaders, Obama is marching ahead.

He's wholly ignored the industry’s $118 billion investment, so far, and another $27 billion through 2016, to reduce emissions at U.S. power plants.

Likewise, his EPA's proposed New Source Performance Standards, released last year, place a de facto ban on the construction of new cutting-edge clean-coal plants; jeopardizing America's leadership in developing Carbon Capture and Storage technology and ceding an estimated $1 trillion in economic benefits resulting from the technology to countries like China.

Meanwhile, the demand for coal continues to grow globally, particularly among burgeoning economic powers.

China’s percent of world coal consumption is expected to increase from 47 percent in 2010 to 57 percent in 2025, and its economic and industrial activity has been synchronous with this growth.

And Germany, which quickly reversed its path after a costly experiment with over-reliance on renewable fuel sources, is now building new coal power plants to restore affordable, reliable electricity to the country.

Both China’s and Germany’s leaders recognize the great potential of low-cost energy from coal in fueling their future growth, and both are leading the way in developing technologies that will harness this potential — all while achieving clean energy leadership and protecting their economic interests.

The American people have spoken time and again about their priorities: creating jobs, rebuilding our economy, creating a meaningful legacy for the future.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-war-on-coal-will-cost-u.s.-1-trillion-in-new-technology-growth/article/2550423#

Dsmithy70 wrote on Jun 25^th, 2014 at 8:41am:

he's aryan 

Heil !! 

https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfCoalPennsylvania

A higher percentage of people are living “outside the workforce” than any time in the past 50 years. The president has done a lot. Remember the stimulus? Think Solyndra. Remember his tax policy? Huge drag on the economy. Remember Obamacare? (I bet you do!) Extra huge drag on the economy. Remember his energy policy? Another drag on the economy. Remember environmental policy? Yep.

An objective person might believe that we would have been significantly better off if President Obama had gone on vacation in 2009 and kept his Blackberry in his pocket.

Doing nothing is better than doing all the wrong things. Better for everybody!

PS... The people who are still trying to convince you that this is all George Bush’s fault count on you being stupid! Don’t be.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2014/01/12/letter-to-the-editor-unemployment-numbers-have-become-meaningless/4448657/

It's not easy being green

 

M.A. Khan, M.D., Pawtucket: In response to James Jones’s June 29 letter (“If only Gore had won”): I also have often wondered what actions Al Gore would have taken if he was the president during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on our country, with al-Qaida cells proliferating in the United States and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein having already kicked out all U.N. inspectors under the Clinton-Gore administration.

Mr. Jones does not need a time machine to know the answers. All he needs to do is to look at what our country and the world is going through under President Obama.

By the way, after having lived for nearly the past eight decades in four different countries, I have personally not experienced any significant changes in our overall global climate. We still have our four seasons, some days colder or hotter than others, storms, rains, floods, and earthquakes, some worse than others.

And finally, Mr. Jones’s heroes, the likes of Jimmy Carter, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Gore, Joseph Biden and Barack Obama are plenty rich enough and getting richer.

http://www.providencejournal.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/20140630-m.a.-khan-a-model-for-president-gore.ece