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27 Billion People, and Climate Change Not High on Their List

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rangerrebew:
August 2, 2023
27 Billion People, and Climate Change Not High on Their List
By Jeffrey Folks

There have been an estimated 27 billion people on earth over the course of human existence.  The world's population today is approximately 8 billion, with 19 billion human beings having preceded us on our planet.  Each of those lives, no matter how modest, was a miraculous affair filled with hope, joy, pain, and perhaps disappointment — but nonetheless life.  Each was important, and the most important thing was, and is, liberty.

Long before charters and constitutions devoted to liberty, Sophocles wrote something similar: "Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man" ("Ode to Man" from Antigone).  It is human life that gives meaning to our planet: human beings are the culmination of a process that began 3.7 billion years ago.  Despite the belief of climate alarmists that the Earth is overpopulated and that we should be made to feel guilty for using the Earth's resources, we humans have a right to live securely and comfortably, and doing so requires the use of fossil fuels and other resources.

Watching a 14-year-old gymnast, a spelling bee winner, a superb tennis champion still in his teens — as were Federer and Nadal, and now Alcarez, when they became champions — reassures us as to the future of mankind.  Despite the inevitable challenges — the economic recessions, wars, and social unrest to come — humanity has the capacity to innovate, create, and survive.  Barring an all-out nuclear war or virus so deadly that few survive it, it's likely that human civilization will continue to grow and develop.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/27_billion_people_and_climate_change_not_high_on_their_list.html?utm_source=akdart

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