Thoughts on climate change, overpopulation

Dear editor,

Oh, my God, the climate — we will all be dead in a month!

Political hysteria panic attacks will kill the left quicker! Their heads are exploding all over the world.

There are two (facts): With the cooling of the earth, free oxygen (O) virtually did not exist on this planet at that time. Free oxygen is oxygen not combined with another element such as carbon, being CO2 (carbon dioxide), or hydrogen, being H2O (water).

At this same time, carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere was at its highest level, being about 21 percent, or over 42 times greater than what it is in today's atmosphere.

If carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, how did the earth ever cool, allowing plant life to grow?

The next question is at what percentage level should carbon dioxide exist within our atmosphere?

If science were absolute, always true and all knowing, it could answer this question!

Science doesn't have the answer and (it) never will! At this time, carbon dioxide is .04 percent of our atmosphere, which is up .006 percent in the last 50 years. The world's temperature is up .8 tenths of a degree in the last 150 years.

China's contribution of the world's CO2 emissions is at 30 percent while the United States is at 15 percent.

So how do you clean the atmosphere of carbon dioxide when the Paris Climate Accord gives a pass to the already largest polluter of CO2 in the world?

The atmosphere would be cleaner if the United States produced more of the world's needs for consumer goods with our stricter pollution emission guidelines.

China has a population of almost 1.4 billion people and India's is a little over 1.3 billion people.

Every person leaves a carbon footprint. When you clear your lot of trees and vegetation to build a new home or shopping mall, you are reducing the earth's carbon dioxide filtering capacity …

Being able to feed the people of the world is not the only indicator of having an overpopulated planet. Space on this planet for human life is limited. What is science's answer for how many people the earth will support? Today it is 7 billion, and by 2050, it will be an estimated 9 billion, almost a 33 percent increase.

With a never-ending human population growth, the wildlife suffers along with the vegetative environment in which they live, unless you want to pitch a tent on your not-cleared lot!

Now, with any opposing comment, please answer the questions I offered!

STEVEN KING

Milton

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