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To: miraje who wrote (47167)	1/31/2014 7:30:38 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86363

This is why I keep on saying that we need the coal industry to go on strike for one week. The masses need to understand that a world without coal is a place that is a lot colder and a lot darker. they need to understand that if we don't have a source to replenish the phosphates in soil, crops will fail and people will die. they need to know that cutting off water for agriculture not only creates hardship for farmers and farm workers (and the surrounding community), it makes food more scarce and more expensive. Scarce expensive food affects poor people, not rich people. It hurts the people who were already on the margin to start with. That means that it actually causes human deaths. And as long as we have policies in place that reward having children when the parents can't afford to take care of them, we will need to have ways to make every acre just a little more productive for agriculture. So we will have things like GMOs to get a higher yield. They could prove 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt that AGW was real and I would still stick with the "do nothing" mantra. If you look at the equation in the terms of human life, more people will die as a result of the measures to stop CO2 production than if you just dealt with the slow increase in atmospheric temperature.