Striking students have great worries than climate
The population bomb will overshadow climate change.
Teachers in NSW are apparently encouraging their pupils to cut school to attend a climate change rally (“ ‘All about the students’ for striking teachers”, 30/11).
It’s the blind leading the blind. They are helping to deny pupils the basic thinking skills they need to recognise a far bigger threat facing the world — the population bomb.
This threat doesn’t need complicated science to understand. In the past 80 years, the world’s population has grown from 2 billion to 8 billion. Without intervention, in another 80 years it will be more than 30 billion.
You worry about carbon dioxide? How much CO2 are an extra 22 billion people going to generate? How much fresh water will they need? How many trees will be cut down to make space for them? What will they live in?
This will be within the lifetime of babies born in Australia today.
Why aren’t political leaders, school principals and parents acting to prevent children going on strike?
No one objects to children having and expressing opinions, but it is unacceptable that they can of their own volition take action of this nature. Taxpayers fund their education in order that they may be provided with the knowledge, minds and skills they will need to make informed judgments when they mature.
The most striking observation about those in charge of ignoring climate change is that most of them know they will be dead when it comes about. Which gives them minimal motivation to do anything about it, especially if it might affect their own standard of living.
The people whose opinions are overwhelmingly relevant are the ones who are going to have to inhabit the scary world to come. Go, you young folk, defend your lives.
Our children, climatologists and academics appear not to have learned to believe measurements where they contradict predictions based on computer models, as in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Educators also appear to be lazy, blindly accepting what “experts” say instead of teaching their students to verify theories scientifically. Arctic ice has not vanished as predicted, polar bears are increasing in sufficient numbers to threaten the local people, and sea levels have not risen to inundate the low-lying islands worldwide, thereby exposing those computer models to ridicule.
I hope none of the students protesting about climate change missed any maths or physics lessons while protesting. Time spent usefully on either of these subjects could aid understanding of a complex subject.
I doubt that most of the students protesting about climate change would have been taught that about 98 per cent of the atmosphere consists of nitrogen and oxygen and that CO2 makes up just 0.04 per cent and the human contribution is only a small fraction of that.
Following on from that, Australia’s contribution of CO2 is almost zero but don’t let the opportunity to posture, scaremonger and have a day off be sidetracked by facts.
Students don’t need to define climate change or give a critical review of the hard evidence for it because there are no facts against the laws of physics governing CO2 emissions and temperature (Letters, 30/11).
The reality of this basic science is now irrefutable, which is why everybody who counts accepts it.
If global warming deniers had any hard evidence to support their delusions they wouldn’t be forced to rehash their fairy tales, but with facts and climate denial mutually exclusive, the students will soon be of voting age and able to rid us of ideologues
So as they march off their cliff into oblivion, denial-cult lemmings should look back so that maybe they’ll appreciate just how alone in the world they have become, with global warming denial of relevance only to those of no relevance, the hard evidence of which is becoming apparent with each electoral rout they ignore.
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