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From: "CobblyWorlds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:53 PM
Subject: [Global Change: 1166] Re: Future of agriculture
>
<...> Imagine it. 2050: almost 10 billion people, of whom a far greater
> percentage than now are living carbon intensive lifestyles(I still have
> faith that globalisation will make people wealthier.). And at that time
> we're moving back to coal which produces more CO2 per joule than oil or
> gas. Either we'll run out of fossil fuels, find an alternative, or some
> 'negative feedback' will act upon us.
>
> But it'll have to be a monster to stop a species like ours.
>
>
Atomic monster. The authors of emissions scenarios featured in the IPCC
third assessment report imagined a world of 2100 where atmospheric CO2 is
stabilized near twice pre-industrial levels, but not without at least six
times more fission power plants than presently exist world-wide.
-dl
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