250,000 Children Killed Next Year Due To Climate Change

Telegraph:

In a new report Save the Children claims that climate change is the biggest global health threat to children in the 21st century[.]

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Comments

[battlez]

We can't alter the climate even if we stopped breathing CO2 right now. Man has to adapt.

[battlez]

Totally unprovable.........a crock of BS. You might as well try to prove the stimulus created any jobs.

[JerryAguy]

Why are we making ethanol out of our food supply when people are staving and there's plenty of oil in the ground? Is that not from somebody who thought it would help climate change in the government? It's no good for your car too.

[RMJ50]

Get used to it. Climate change will soon result in millions of deaths a year. Once the permafrost starts releasing huge amounts of methane into the air as it decomposes, we will enter a period of positive feedback where temperatures will rise uncontrollably. Then life on earth as we know it will end. Until then, us rich people can eat, drink and be merry as if there is no tomorrow.

[battlez]

BS BS BS BS BS BS..............

[SneathLane]

Every child who is born deserves to be fed, clothed, housed, educated and loved. The only way we will be able to do that in the future is to have fewer of them.

Having more children than we, as a species, are able to care for is obscene. Every child who dies from malaria or intestinal parasites or hunger is a child killed by our refusal to control our reproduction.

[battlez]

.....and who shall chose........who is to live, or die?

[freshmind]

Yes, climate change has wrecked havoc on animals for hundreds of millions of years, it's not a new fad.

[Publicola]

Man-made climate change however is a new development since the dawn of the fossil fuel-burning era.

[battlez]

Earth warms and cools .........for billions of years!

[tonedef]

Nature is in no way moral or ethical. And until humanity experiences the consequences of screwing up our environment, neither will we be. This report is a verdict, not a warning. If we value humanity enough to save it, we must realize that the only way to do it is to keep the planet habitable for us.

[jsarets]

Yes, but this is the kind of climate change that is driven primarily by intensive agriculture rather than by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

African farmers are destroying their soil and its water-retention properties by attempting to cultivate commodity crops like we do, except with less active irrigation and synthetic soil amendments.

This is a canary, an early warning of what will happen to American agriculture as freshwater supplies become increasingly scarce and the Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation process becomes more costly.

The greenhouse effect will be a gradual background trend compared to the more dramatic effects of prevailing industrial practices involving the management of land, water, and waste.

[GuyRC]

wrong. global climate change will cause local climate changes regardless of agricultural practices or any other additional factors.

[jsarets]

Global climate change will cause local climate change, but agricultural practices will cause local climate change to a more dramatic extent.

[Chic Bowdrie]

I'm not a farmer, but I would rate your explanation and climate change less important than the more immediate problem of negative government intervention and the failure to imploy modern techniques that have greatly improved food production in the more developed countries.
http://ebook30.com/business/business/127062/starved-for-science-how-biotechnology-is-being-kept-out-of-africa.html
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/alexsingleton/4019011/Big_government_causes_starvation/
http://article.wn.com/view/2009/09/03/Millions_face_starvation_in_East_African_drought/

[lbsaltzman]

There is no question that good agricultural practices can sequester carbon, while bad practices remove carbon from the soil. We should abandon industrial agriculture for many reasons including the high input of carbon based fuels that are consumed in the production and shipping of this food. However, the primary forcing of climate change remains CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Agriculture contributes to that, but agriculture is only one of many parts of our dysfunctional civilization that needs to change.

[Chic Bowdrie]

So we should park the trucks, go see a collective shrink, and let the children starve?