The West will not decelerate or halt the growth of GDP let alone shrink their economies.
Asia and Latin America will not decelerate or halt their growth.
Africa must not forgo similar development.
It won't happen - get used to it.

What amuses me about you bushbred is that you never address the topic.

If you wish to ignore the topic at hand then give your opinion about the advances made in Australia over the last 12 years. Debt of $96 billion paid off and a surplus achieved; lowest unemployment; advancement from a third world tourist destination to a producer of great mineral wealth; a strong dollar; and with multiculturalism, and fiction based history of Australia, on the way out

This has been achieved despite the shackles imposed on industry by way of the bureaucratic nonsense of environmental impact statements, timewasting, pointless purported safety procedures, sacred site inspections and other antiproductive attempts to sink constructive enterprise, and despite the tenure of nonsense purveying academics in our learning institutions, The present government is not beholden to the greens for preferences, so is not bound to destroy positive effort.

This is despite money being drained from infrastructure in the States, where they are beholden to the greens, no new dams built, on spurious environmental grounds, new areas declared wilderness to be neglected to the detriment of productive landholders; transport and roads neglected by government, but developed by private enterprise for industrial development.

The destruction by man that you mention, bushbred, will no doubt come to a halt when capitalism spreads wordwide, and develops the third world. It will continue while there are people in the world, so ground down by poverty, and the efforts of the greens to keep them that way, that they consider only survival.

Our Australian environment is extremely adaptive. It survived the destructive methods of the Aborigines, by evolving plants which required burning to continue their existence. Nature is admirable at survival, I do not see your expressed concern as valid..

Confidence arises from researching facts, and knowing the topic being addressed. Perhaps this is why you perceived Bush to be confident He knows his topic, and gets it right, which enrages the nonsense lovers.

I tried a little experiment where my idea was to increase the level of CO2 inside my house to see it would make the house warmer.

The only problem is to increase the level of CO2, the level of O2 decreases. This creates other problems before the house has a chance to get warmer with the excess CO2.

So I figure before the house gets warmer, it becomes unlivable first.
and I am still cold

Cattle alone occupy 24% of the worlds land mass and consume more food and expel more waste than humans. This still leaves the other damage associated with cattle and other livestock to consider. Rain forests burned, fertile plains turned into desert, and climate threatened by global warming thanks to the 2billion odd cows spewing the byproducts of their incomplete use of grains and grasses. Then begin to figure in the impact of buffalo, sheep, goats,pigs, horses, mules, asses, camels, chickens and ducks, etc.
It becomes obvious that the first step in saving the planet from destruction is mass conversion of world population to vegetarianism. But before we all do that, BAAAARBIE'Q.

Reckon I guessed you right, Leo - a neo-colonialist to the back teeth. Really your crowd are so old-fashioned you would fit well into the contrabandit days of the East India Company et al.

Still hasn't changed much with Dick Cheney's oil grab mania. Matter of fact, my academic Honours was all about it and is still about it.

Cultural corporatism now all the Western rage, old Chum, like extreme capitalism, so reliant on business takeovers, can only finish up disappearing up its own Fascistic-style backside. China and India, and possibly with the help of the new Russia might see to that.

As I suggested previously, reckon you need to brush up with your reading, Leo, most of the graball stuff you believe in, has not really changed since the Roman Empire.

Any more advice you might need - ready here as you want - Cheers BB

aqvarivs,

It has been postulated that the current interglacial period has been lengthened due to the rise in methane levels, attributable to the development of agriculture. Personally I'm happy about that.

To go a step further, will the continued use of fossil fuels and other carbon emissions postpone the next iceage, perhaps indefinately. I think the current world population will find it easier to cope with localised catastrophe, than a future population will with a broadscale iceage. Some of the worlds most populated regions exist in areas blanketed by icefields in the past.