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Humans are fatal flaw in climate plan

Re: 鈥淩eport warns of catastrophic global warming,鈥 Oct. 9; 鈥淐limate report can be a sign of hope,鈥 letter, Oct. 20. The former article warns of our impending doom, while the letter offers a ray of hope that it is not too late to save our world.

Re: 鈥淩eport warns of catastrophic global warming,鈥 Oct. 9; 鈥淐limate report can be a sign of hope,鈥 letter, Oct. 20.

The former article warns of our impending doom, while the letter offers a ray of hope that it is not too late to save our world. What both pieces neglect is how we account for the fatal flaw: Us.

Yes, us. We are seven-plus billion inhabitants of a space that is overloaded at four billion. To make it worse, at the rate of population growth, about one per cent, we will shortly be between 10 billion and 14聽billion.

All forms of government speak of the continuing need for growth to allow for this increase. Surely, if the earth is overloaded at four billion, only negative growth will solve the problem.

I leave it to your imagination as to what would be required to enter a period of sustained negative growth. Also, will we, the fatal flaw, even consider it?

Alas, I think not.

Whitney Moyer

Colwood