OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #156, DECEMBER 4, 2023

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #156, DECEMBER 4, 2023

Doing What’s Within Our Power Where We Are to REDUCE

REDUCING POPULATION GROWTH, Making Our Families SMALL,
Milton Saier, Jr.  “Save the Earth; [If You Already Have a Child] Don’t Give Birth.”  Free Inquiry (April/May 2023).  The article concludes:  “The human population now exceeds eight billion and is expected to reach ten billion in thirty years.”  [This statement is supported by a citation from the UN, footnote #11. ] “This fact alone guarantees suffering and premature death over much of the globe, not just for a few but for billions of people. . . .It seems that only with a very substantial reduction in the size of the human population can we hope for a stable order for Earth’s biosphere and its human inhabitants.  And this will only be possible when all world citizens have access to a full range of contraceptive devices, medications, and procedures, including abortion.  There are no other means by which we can achieve universal sustainability, the prerequisite for continuing human life on Earth. . . .Our government also seems unable to act sensibly on global warming, the greatest threat to the biosphere after human population expansion.”  [Saier was prof. of molecular biology at UC, San Diego, and has authored “more than 600 scientific papers including several books .”]

Population Connection
PC “educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s resources.”   info@popconnect.org

Doing What We Can Where We Are and INCREASING

COMPOSTING
Ozark Compost & Swap is a local business picking up food waste from homes and businesses in Northwest Arkansas. They collect waste from Fayetteville to Bella Vista, and then feed it to their roughly 1 million worms. Folks that use their pickup service receive free worm castings throughout the year for folks to use as a natural soil amendment in potted plants or gardens. One of the great benefits of the worm castings is that they are a huge benefit to soil health overall. Healthy soils have the capacity to sequester and store carbon from the atmosphere. If we can improve soil health globally, it is one of the many ways to reverse the effects of global warming.  Tina Flakowitz, Tina@OzarkCompost.com  [This company understands that it must do its tiny work aware of the climate emergency and as part of a planetary response.  –D]