O,

I said was going to ignore you, but given your penchant for making a fool of yourself you are too good a target to give up.

All your claimed degrees don't seemed to have helped you find your way around a dictionary. A witch, usually a female, is one who practises black magic or sorcery.

So, if witches abound here, they are people who preach C02/AGW hysteria and scare mongering. (There is no science, merely consensus). You are talking about yourself when you talk about witches. And, don't you just love talking about yourself! Keep it up. You are the best example of how silly the voodoo surrounding man-made climate change/warming is.

"In some ways she is like the coming of Christ..." but she hasn't walked on the water yet.

The yacht trip was typical, she didn't travel by jet, thus "saving" the planet by her refusal to use fossil fuel to get where she was going but her father and another bloke jetted to the US to help crew the yacht; where was the big saving in fossil fuel?

Still, the Days of Sail may return.
http://theconversation.com/greta-thunberg-made-it-to-new-york-emissions-free-but-the-ocean-doesnt-yet-hold-the-key-to-low-carbon-travel-122518

Every little bit helps, maybe I should get rid of the open fire for next winter and leave the fallen timber to burn in the next season's bushfires

ALTRAV,

It's as good to see you back as it was good to see the disappearance of a certain other person. Given our last election, Donald Trump, and now the demolition of the Red Wall in Britain, things are looking up. I never thought that I would see the headline "Tories have now become 'the party of the working class'", but there it was this morning.

The pendulum is swinging back. The best advocates for the return of centre right politics are the loud mouth Lefties, who live on an entirely different plane from the rest of us. The more they talk, the worse they look

The reason for damage to the environment (in a broad sense) is too many people. Mainly in the highest populated countries of the world.

Those that are coming from a high base and have a higher than replacement rate are especially concerning, are irresponsible, and represent an existential threat to humanity. Those that discredit the danger and promote policies increasing this danger are also an existential threat to humanity. Locke Liberalism believes in freedom over responsibility- given our current situation- this is an existential threat to humanity.

There are those that promote improving technology as a means of beating the environmental damage so that we can continue as profligates- this is irresponsible.

Open borders rewards the irresponsible at the expense of the responsible- providing a pressure valve to bad management and bad behavior. Reversing what in the past was seen- perhaps- as natural justice.

'Given our last election, Donald Trump, and now the demolition of the Red Wall in Britain, things are looking up. '

that child Trudeau (blackface) is the odd one out. Still I suppose him and Greta and be friends.

CM,

Old ground - we've been over this before. Europe, including Russia, Japan and South Korea all now have birth rates which are st or below replacement rates: their populations are not rising. Russia's is actually falling fairly quickly. Latin America's birth rate is approaching the magic number of 2.1.

China's birth rate is also falling: the annual number of births is not rising, and mortality will equal births in about fifteen or twenty years. India's birth rate is falling towards 2.1, but its population will keep rising because people will be living longer (i.e. not dying off as quickly).

Which leaves Africa. Birth rates are still high there, but coming down as women gain more education, postpone pregnancies and marriage. And as health services improve there, people are having fewer children, since there is less need to have someone to care for older people. Once those societies are able to offer pensions, the birthv rats should tumble as people don't need to rely on many children to support them in their old age.

Try this site:

http://ourworldindata.org/search?q=population

Joe