“When you get up above it, what you see is, it’s actually incredibly thin. It’s this tiny, little fragile thing, and as we move about the planet, we’re damaging it. That’s very profound — it’s one thing to recognize that intellectually. It’s another thing to actually see with your eyes how fragile it really is,” observed Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Planet, with amazement and bewilderment after return from space. In usual everyday life, we handle fragile stuff with care. But why aren’t we taking care of the most fragile and the rarest thing for us, the earth? Eight billion people on our planet are simply not sustainable. In the last 100 years, we burgeoned from 1.75 to almost 8 billion. A world with 10 billion people is on the horizon as soon as 2050. It’s not going to be easy to convince the world to have fewer babies but unless we do we are doomed. Population planning was a popular notion in the 60s and 70s but you never hear about it now. Reciprocally, the more population we have, the more economic growth we need, the more greenhouse gas emissions we have. Now there are a few who … Continue reading Global Warming and Climate Change: a Myth or Reality?