is climate change all there is to talk about?

so, should we be truly worried about climate change as much as we are led to believe?

i'm not saying climate change is not happening or that something shouldn't be done about greenhouse gases but perhaps other issues should be forgotten such as HIV/AIDs, women's rights, lack of nutrition for many around the world, totalitarian agriculture, the path of consumption, the depletion of oil, etc.

and then the national post has an article about al gore's inconvenient truth and some of the errors within it and then retorts by mentioning the great global warming swindle movie which in itself is full of s**t

yet, i wonder why people challenge climate change - is it because of the bad science? i doubt that because so many peer reviewed journals publish scores of articles on the topic and its effects

the bottom line is $$$ - big oil, big pharma, big agriculture, and the sweat shop phenomenon depends profit and the myth of progress; without it the rich don't get richer

see, in my opinion, climate change isn't the problem - the culture we are all slowly being enveloped in, smothered in promotes and is dependent on growth

your RRSPs, your pension funds, your net worth is all dependent on growth - it is a futile pursuit because resources are limited

life will go on whether we address climate change or not - nature is resilient; now whether us humans will continue to thrive is a separate issue; and if we do, sure climate change should be addressed but fixing climate change won't feed 6, 7, 10, 20 billion people - only an attitude change and a realization that the world's population before the industrial revolution as maybe a billion which is what a non-oil culture is limited to +/- a few hundred million

people will die even if we reduce our greenhouse emissions, reduce our carbon footprint, turn off our lights, buy CFLs because there aren't enough energy sources and resources to keep the world's population at its current levels

growth will slow and things will change because nature will dictate change

only once people accept this will real change initiated by humans be seen

hopefully we don't act too late