Other solutions "MUST" include the outlawing of designed obsolescence and the mountains of waste that that insanity creates along with urban heat thermals?

The manifestly moribund Author "MUST"climb down from his lofty perch and divorced from the real world, academia. And "MUST" spend a fortnight in the real world of say, Calcutta and life in the tin shanty slums, the heat, the flies, the cows and cooking fires all over the joint.

And take several trips on public transport where the passengers' are crowed in closer than tinned sardines. If only to realize that ultra expensive renewables like solar voltaic or wind turbines won't ever cut it in a world of almost universal poverty.

And that the only practical carbon-free energy that can be tasked with recycling, population reducing economic abundance and universal environmentally responsible economic growth! Is currently confined to MSR thorium, which delivers everything fusion promised but couldn't deliver.

Which can also be tasked with very safely burning and thereby reducing the world's stockpile of toxic nuclear waste. And after all the remaining energy has been extracted from what is essentially unspent fuel, in complete radiation free safety! Below background average!

End up with a vastly less toxic waste pile with a half-life reduced to 300 years. Moreover, ditto weapons-grade plutonium!

No? You'd rather we left it in the weapons? I rest my case!
Alan B.

Unlike John Avery, I feel that the opinion of 15 year old school girls is not sufficient evidence of imminent doom. There is no compelling evidence that we are on the brink of any of the catastrophes that he mentions.

"Until the development of coal-driven steam engines in the 19th century humans lived more or less in harmony with their environment."

Until the Industrial Revolution, life for the vast majority of people was nasty, brutish and short. John Avery would have us return there.

Theoretical History as well as Theoretical Chemistry

yep people into the evolution fantasy come up with the most ridiculous conclusions. Here is clear proof.

These two references confirm the authors scenario we the all-encompassing seriousness of the situation in which all of Earthkind is in:
http://fearnomore.vision/world/integrity-of-the-whole

http://www.da-peace.org/excerpt-two-is-not-peace

'Tis a shame the valid points John Avery makes are being obscured by his ignorant claims!

Those who think infinite economic growth is impossible on a finite planet don't seem to understand what growth is. The size of the economy is not the same as its environmental impact.

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Gerard,
What study is that? And why the discrepancy between it and all the other studies that say the sun's been in a cooling phase despite the observed warming of the planet?

The author does well to introduce the issue with this statement:

"climate change is [a] conspiracy to reduce freedom [and] is spread by a powerful and greedy elite which has largely captured governments to preserve their privileges in an increasingly unequal world."

But I think the author falls down proving:

"Right now, we are facing aman-made disaster of global scale."

As we all know Amman [1], capital of Jordan, chock-full of good Arabs, is making little impact.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman