Suppose we suddenly had two suns?

Things might get warmer if a second sun showed up in our world. Of course it won’t, but our human effects are making the equivalent happen, albeit slowly. Too much of a good thing will hurt us.

There have been a bunch of the end the world scenarios, to the point of chicken little stories. Running out of food due to population explosions is the most common one today. Let me add another one. Too many humans.

In the process of researching this post, I have sought many sources. In the same vein, I have been motivated by a very old study that suggested back in the 1960’s that if we humans keep it up (in 1960’s talk), we humans will put as much energy into our world as what we get from the sun. In English, all the food we eat, the cars we drive, all the public transportation we use, all the renewable electricity resources we use, the all source electricity we use at home, and even our time at schools all eventually becomes an additive to our global heat. The recent idea of harnessing energy from Swedish public transportation people in a confined travel exchange place follows this idea of postponing the future using good engineering ideas. Even insulating our homes will save money, but in the end the heat will go out of our houses and apartments, albeit slower.

During the warm months, our air conditioning systems will keep us comfortable. Thank goodness we have it. But in the same vein, where does this “dumped” energy go? Of course it is the atmosphere.

In researching this post, and requiring two independent sources, I have failed. It is not just the so many variables and what ifs, but rather even the sources that allow this poster to converge using two sources and methods. Global warming is a complicated subject, and to amplify this subject with the question of how many humans, is just icing on the cake.

But here are indicators. While we may have a pretty good number of earth humans today, the demographics drive it all. Today supposedly we have around 6.5 billion humans on our earth. And while the western national birth rates are declining, the rest of the world birth rates are “inclining”; many think this is just old fashioned normal as the other“social security” traditional method. And if one adds in all the things we in the USA have been promoting, as in quality of life in the third world, then demands on quality of life and energy are happening as we speak. The introduction of a low quality and low price car to India is such an example of do-gooders that may bounce back on spoiled westerners.

While my research using internet means is not conclusive, the suspicion is. We have too many people on this earth, especially if their energy demands that are part of quality of life go up. If ever there was a time for leaders, mostly environmental leaders, to step up, it is now. Go into harms way in the third world, and for the earth’s benefit. Anyone less who retreats to some western cultural sanctuary is not the kind of leader needed these days. Now is not the time to call in the Navy and Marines, but rather to go in harms way and change the world, one small step at a time.