Global Warming Hypocracy

Help me out, please. How is it that these climate change people are descending on Copenhagen in private jets and using limousines. Can it be that there are special rules for them (some sort of elite), and the rest of us can take the bus?

Reminds me of communism in the former Soviet Union. Remember how the people lined up for food and clothing while the old Soviet leaders had their limos and dachaus? Isn't this a kind of communism. We have the elite leaders: the environmental millionaires (they've got theirs), movie stars, leftist politicians, scientists who feed at the government trough, bureaucrats who will have great job security, and an assortment of kooks. Yes, there are some very serious people who worry about man's impact on this planet, but unfortunately this is more of a leftist political movement than a real quest for truth. It is more of a "let's get the United States" movement that a serious world effort to improve conditions on the planet.

The observable truth is that this planet is being poluted by waste from human activities. It's resources are being consumed without regard for their import to the planet. We do need to change. Earth is changing as it always has, but we humans are now a part of the change, mostly through exess individual consumption and a geometric increase in human poplulation. With respect to the individual what is needed is personal restraint. But as long as the population increases so rapidly, hardly anything will arrest global polution and overconsumption of scarce resourses.

Anyone who doesn't understand the problem of population needs to think long and hard. Use your imagination. Take a look at a population growth curve. Think about this - doubling one hundred thousand (or a million or a ten million) people in a quarter century is nothing for the Earth. But we are doubling billions! If we have 6 billion now; imagine 12 billion in another 20 or 25 years. How about 24 billion in less than half a century. For some reason, I began worrying about this problem when I was a child. I have never gotten over it and am now more convinced than ever that the astronomical increase in population is a disaster in the making.

I am not advocating for any government policy or for abortion. I am simply saying that the problem of popultation growth is at the bottom of our environmental problems. If we want to preserve and enjoy this fantastically beautiful planet, we need to show restraint on all fronts. We don't need elites to tell us what to do.