I’ve got some numbers for you.
There are 6.7 billion people on planet earth right now. 300 people are born every minute, 1/10 of them born to teenagers. 16 of those 300 babies will die by age 5. One of their mothers will die in childbirth, which if you work it out is 40,000 people dead [...]
Gerard posts on an issue I’ve been working on for something else—the need for a growing economy to provide itself with power without burning fossil fuels. Even together, solar, wind, wave, hydroelectric, and other greener technologies aren’t yet up to the task of supplying Ireland’s needs, as the government’s 2007 white paper has shown. As James Lovelock has controversially [...]
Also tagged Environment, Fossil fuel, Global warming, Greenhouse gas, Ireland, Kyoto Protocol, Nuclear power
Today’s Irish Times has an interesting article by Richard Whelan, which counter points Gerard O’Neill’s article from yesterday concerning the disappearance of the working class in Ireland.
Whelan writes about the rise of a world wide middle class, and cites a paper (here) which predicts that half the world’s population will be middle class by [...]