[Grovenet] Celebrate Independence Day, buy some foreign oil

[David Morelli]

On Jul 5, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Steven wrote:

> Which behaviors do you suspect?
> Procreation, defoliation, hydrocarbon, hyperpoliticization?
>
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>> "Personally I suspect human behavior."


Steven,

" ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,  
however improbable, must be the truth. "
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

Process of elimination.

With 650,000 years of geologic action, volcanic action, climatic  
action, solar action, microbe action, plant action, and animal action  
the carbon level has stayed within certain bounds, while the  
temperature has stayed within certain bounds.

In the last 6000 years human civilization has populated the globe and  
formed the land in our design.  Starting with "slash and burn" and  
proceeding to mechanization humans have changed the surface of the  
earth.  What else has changed?

Over the last 250 years coal and then petroleum has replaced muscle  
and photosynthesis as the source of human energy.  All other actions  
have retained their energy processes.

Between 1650 and 1850 the human population doubled in 200 years.   
Between 1850 and 1925 the population doubled in 75 years.  Between  
1925 and 1976 the population doubled again, in 51 years.   That was  
more than simple exponential growth.  We have slowed some since our  
maximum rate of increase.  Between 1976 and 2006 (30 years) we have  
had about 62% increase.

What else, that is not human driven, has grown at that sort of rate?

Procreation, deforestation, resource consumption, stupidity would all  
qualify as possible agents for the increases.  What you see as the  
cause?

David