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To: Lane3 who wrote (70209)	6/2/2008 10:51:47 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541986

If you weren't attributing the Atlanta water situation to CC, why did you introduce CC? Actually, it was Whiffle who introduced Atlanta. If you follow the posts, the original article I posted was about water shortages in the West, in particular in Utah. Plenty of water around, even with GW, if there weren't so many people and so many more in the future. Now that you mention it, there wouldn't be so much man-made GW if there weren't so many people. I agree with that. But there are "so many people" around. And we use a lot of fossil fuels that are putting a lot of extra CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. So there is CC (a much more accurate description of what is happening, BTW, than "GW" is). The epicenter of the web is population increase, not GW. Well, in a way that is so, but in another way not so. Without the large and rising population, there wouldn't be as much fossil fuel use, that is true enough. GW is a symptom, not a cause. The "implications" of GW are being misread. We would still have problems given the increase in population, but if we had discovered how to efficiently use, say, solar and wind power instead of fossil fuels, then CC wouldn't be a problem. In other words, population increase is definitely an important part of the causal nexus, but, given the way we get our energy, so is CC. So is the way we "manage" our collective infrastructure (that is, for the past 30 or 40 years, we have essentially rested on the work done in the previous 30 or 40 years, and allowed the infrastructure built back then to deteriorate without adequate maintenance--especially with respect to water in our major urban areas).