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Gore highlights world population fears

19th September 2007, 10:03 WST

The ballooning world population and the dizzying pace of technological change have helped turn mankind into an environmental "bull in a china shop", says climate crusader Al Gore.

The former US vice-president said the world population has quadrupled in 100 years.

Though it is now stabilising, it is still increasing in developing countries with high rates of poverty.

"But it's an important part of the explanation as to why we are suddenly the bull in the china shop that we never used to be," Mr Gore said in a speech in Sydney.

"Even more important is the fact that our technology has grown in power at a dizzying pace, perhaps one million times more powerful as our grandparents had available to them."

Technology had made a significant impact on "this shell of the environment that surrounds our planet", he said.

Mr Gore cited the chemical family of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which were invented in the 1930s and used extensively after World War II.

It was now the 20th anniversary of the Montreal protocol designed to limit the impact of CFCs, he said.

"Australia was on the edge of the bullseye for that one," he said.

Mr Gore, author of the book An Inconvenient Truth, and who featured in an influential documentary movie on the climate change crisis, was speaking at the launch of the Financial and Energy Exchange company's Sustainability and Cleantech Investment Market (FEX-SIM).

It is designed to provide "clean tech" companies with a cost-effective capital raising environment.

Ok, praise the Creator, but I have heard Prof Gore's take on population for awhile and I think it is more a threat than warming?

He made me aware of AND I will ramble---in a hurry this am-----well around 1880 we had 1 billion people. During Columbus 1492 it was 500 million. It was 250-500 million through most of history until now? This is why HALF OF ALL PEOPLE WHO EVER LIVED PAST 65 are alive right now! In the history of the world cause even including everyone who died way back then it doesn't match the math of todays numbers.

Watching the WAR on PBS I had never realized that we only had 150 million people during the WWII? Most towns/cities had only 100,000 folks, No wonder I knew everyone in Nashville or even TN worth knowing at all and all of the criminals as well, cause guess what, I really did and so did Gore senior! Hmmmn ya think that is why they can connect with folks? I mean if ya knew them before population, their families, that may be why Gore takes a minute and then recalls the family the grandchild is from???

Now India is going to pass China with the most but China isn't shrinking as they will have at least 6 cities with over 20 million folks, etc?

SCREW OIL, screw it, we don't need it ask Brazil, etc!

Water, put your investments in anything that has to do with water in all directions, treating it, replacing it, finding it, etc WATER! Investments, wouldn't that be a concept? :laugh:

It is sooooo hard to tell a young person that Water is Life!

Any Grunt knows that you will throw away ammo for water!

We got pinned down once and went for 3 lousy days without water and from then on, I knew that water was life!!!!!!!!!

I really despise my current job, I will not last long, just trying to get some Xmas money? It was my first one out of school, maybe better is on the horizon???

IT IS ALL----WELL MOSTLY GOOD!!! :coolwink:

We still have a chance he will run folks, it isn't over yet, my wife hasn't sung :tongue:

Bush has a plan for population
He wants to first kill billions of Muslims when he nukes Iran, then moves on to Russia and China

Then any protesters will disappear

Reagan got rid of a whole young generation allowing AIDS to kill hundreds of thousands or more (most coincidentally enough were liberal democrats, fancy the odds of that ethnic cleansing???)

Add a little global warming death, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc. and soon there is no longer a population problem in the world