[Bldg-sim] Saving Energy to Save the Planet

[Joe Huang]

Varkie,

I'm going to say something that might rankle others on this bulletin board.
The main take-away I get from your post (but something I've felt all along),
is that in respect to energy efficiency and carbon mitigation, the developed
countries are still the source of the problem, and not the solution (at 
least
not yet).  Therefore, those of us working in green buildings, building 
energy
efficiency, etc., should still maintain a healthy dose of humility and 
not have
that air of moral superiority I often detect at international conferences.

Joe



On 9/27/2013 10:18 AM, Varkie Thomas wrote:
>
> 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
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> 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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