Sunday, November 16, 2014

How Climate Change will Change the World

 This Map Shows How Climate Change Will Screw The Whole World

I tried to quote more than this but wasn't able to.

However, I was wearing a Tuxedo for the first time in a long time at a college fundraiser recently and it was really warm even though it was a huge classic theater built likely in the early 1900s so it was one of those amazing antique places here on earth. It got so hot I asked my wife why they had turned the heater up inside even though it likely was below freezing outside that night. She said, "Oh. I don't think it's heated. I just think there are so many bodies in here that all these bodies are heating it up."

This made me think a lot about this and how much each one of us affects the planet and it's weather in what we do, what we drive, how we heat our homes or cars, how we use gasoline, how we use food etc.

But, the shear number of people is now between 3 to 7 times greater than when I grew up when it was only 1 to 2 billion people here on earth. Even then, it seemed like there were a lot of people, but as soon as you got out of a city like Los Angeles there was also always a lot of wide open spaces, in the mountains, deserts, oceans etc.

However, now I don't like so much going to Los Angeles or even San Diego because the traffic is always so bad. And even though I live near the San Francisco Bay area now I try to avoid the traffic there too unless I'm boarding a plane or something for somewhere else. So, people have become a problem now everywhere. When I grew up there were only about 10 million people in all of California I believe. Now there are 30 to 40 million people in the state. It's true that they mostly congregate in places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Sacramento but still that is a lot of people even if there are still a lot of wide open places in a state like California or Texas or Alaska. 

And if you travel to places like Asia or Africa it can be 10 or more times worse than California regarding having enough space for people to spread out and breathe fresh  air and live.

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