On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 1:15:56 PM UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:

Alastair I think you have a very distorted view of the human condition.
During the last period of glaciation the c02 levels were down to 180ppm and then pre industrial revolution from the end of that last period of glaciation about 270ppm. In that ten thousand odd years life hasn't been exactly picture perfect for humanity has it. Ironically for you the lofty comfortable lifestyle level from which you bemoan the passing of the idea co2 level was only afforded and made possible precisely because of the use of fossil fuels and looking at some of the thread contents today we have plenty of old fossils well fuelled up using this group.

Lawrence, during the Holocene, the lst 10,000 years, life for the few who moved from subsistence farming into city life has been a great improvement. Why should they move otherwise?

But there are still billions of subsidence farmers in China, India, Africa and throughout the world who do not have the comfortable life style that you and your fellow old fossils enjoy. Yet you are quite happy to burn every drop of fossil fuel just to maintain your life/es of luxury, leaving none for the descendants of those poor families or even your own. Moreover, you are wreaking the environment by causing widespread wildfires:

http://www.fire.ca.gov/general/firemaps
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...-Portugal.html

floods:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-2...-camps/7779284
http://www.theadvocate.com/louisiana...229b90b79.html

and droughts

http://ca.water.usgs.gov/data/drought/
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cl...ears-487878483

I don't think I have a distorted view of the human condition. It is you who needs to remove your rose coloured glasses. :-(



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