[Bldg-sim] Saving Energy to Save the Planet

[Varkie Thomas]

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.

 

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