Nous sommes bien peu de chose, Madame ("donnez-moi-z-un kilog de bananes" ajoutait François Béranger), mais nous sommes BEAUCOUP TROP NOMBREUX ! Et d'ailleurs, c'est ce que disait un certain Don Hirschberg dans sa lettre à l'éditeur
du Scientific American de mars 2008. Je cite in extenso :
Population Pollution
One can only wonder whether the politicians who will be participating in the new international agreement on greenhouse gas reduction, referred to by Jeffrey D. Sachs in “Climate Change and the Law” [Sustainable Developments], do any arithmetic. World population is still growing, and energy demand is growing even more rapidly. Every year more fossil fuel is burned. Large new coal mines are being opened to exploit lower-quality coal deposits, and the capacity of new fossil-fuel plants swamps that of new wind and solar installations. Furthermore, millions of cars per year are being built in or shipped to countries with huge populations that until now have had few private vehicles.
Without drastic population reduction [my emphasis], all our other efforts are
fatuous.
Don Hirschberg
Horseshoe Bend, Ark.
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