THE GREEN NEW DEAL

This is an old drum that I have beat until the membrane is thin.    Controlling carbon emissions is the vaccine, because carbon emissions is not the root cause of climate change. 

It took two million years from the time Lucy walked across the savannas of Africa for the race of man to reach a population of one billion (circa 1804.)

In only 123 years (about 1927) we doubled the population to two billion.   

The move to three billion (1960) took only 34 years.  

To four billion (1974) was a 14-year span.   

Thirteen years later (1987) we added our fifth billion:  1999 (12 years) six billion; 2011 (twelve years) seven billion. 

 

The more people we have the more energy we require, the more natural resources we consume, the more devastating we are on the environment.

Billions	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
year	1804	1927	1960	1974	1987	1999	2011
interval years	2 Million	123	33	14	13	12	12

The present world population at the beginning of 2019 is listed as 7.7 billion and growing steadily.

This is the elephant ignored in the Green New Deal.

the Ol’Buzzard

ONE MORE STARTLING STATISTIC ON ANCESTRY

NERD SCIENCE STATISTICS:

I Can't help myself.  

The world population in the year 1500 is estimated to be about four hundred and fifty million (450,000,000) people.

If you start counting all your direct ancestry - exponentially: two grandparents; four great grand parents; eight great-great grand parents; sixteen g-g-g grandparents etc.  the number of your ancestors exceeds the population of the Earth about the year 1450 (around 1450 you exceed five hundred million direct ancestors.)   After that, by following reverse population growth your ancestry begins to collapse toward an original Eve; or Australopithecus Africanus: an original Lucy to be more exact.  

Lucy and Luke - the alpha ancestors.

  
Note: no apple trees and snakes - just reverse evolution.   

the Ol'Buzzard