I Hate To Be Negative.....

I hate to be negative but won't the effects of human driven climate change be mitigated by a population die off.  I mean, come on, get real,  I'm 60 and the population of both the planet and the United States have doubled in my lifetime.  The idea that we can provide food, water, and health care for a few more billion people is ridiculous.  We can barely provide for everyone now, and it's only going to get worse.

Now, I know that a lot of people read stuff like this and assume that famine, disease, and all that will be the plague of the third world, and it won't happen here. ( Fill in any first world country for here.)  I don't know why first worlders make that assumption.  A massive drought, not enough water to grow food, knows no boundaries, and when push comes to shove, we can only buy so much food  from other countries.  And let's not forget our old friend war.  War over resources has already begun, and it will only get worse.

Talk about the four horseman.

Norman Borlaug

Norman Borlaug, one of the most significant and least known people of the twentieth century has died. In a nutshell, Malthusian predictions were coming true. The population of the planet had risen to an unsustainable level, and the math of food and population was about to kill millions, perhaps even billions, of people in mass famines. Borlaug's work with plant genetics allowed for the development of high yield grains that saved those lives.
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Norman Borlaug, one of the most significant and least know people of the twentieth century has died. In a nutshell, Malthusian predictions were coming true. The population of the planet had risen to unsustainable levels, and the math of food and population was about to kill millions, perhaps even billions, of people in mass famines. With no thought of future consequences, Borlaug's work with plant genetics put of the inevitable. By developing high yield grains, more people survived, causing rapid draining of water tables, increased production of green house gases, and will probably lead to a mass die off of the human race, with only a core group of survivors.