Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Heatwave hits southern Europe, US and China - UK announces new climate plan" video.

The most important part of this report is at 5:53 Methane doesn't get talked about nearly as much as it needs to. The biggest domestic source of methane by far is rotting vegetation. That's all the fruit and vegetable waste be it from surplus supply in the market, at manufacturing or in the home, it's produce that doesn't fit the look consumers expect and the stuff you throw out because you didn't eat the whole meal or it spoiled in the fridge. It's also all the garden clippings, waste from making wood and paper products, slashing of rotation crop grown to recover the soil in "sustainable farming" methods, etc. Indeed even all of the methane in the meat industry (which is factually less than from rotting vegetation despite what vegans want to pretend) ultimately comes from vegetation. 25x more potent as a green house has but gets almost no coverage. Meanwhile it's all moot until the real cause of climate change, global population scale, is addressed. Whilst the global population is still growing (let alone not declining as it needs to) then there isn't much of a point to these other climate change measures. The climate will continue to change until we get global population down to at least it's natural theoretical maximum of 1 billion people, if not to it's real world naturally occurring maximum of 500 million. This, the most essential part of tackling climate change never gets any coverage whatsoever. We need to start having the conversation urgently. We need to start controlling population and breeding rights everywhere. The math is simple, we need to convince 7:8 young people to never have babies.
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@thejoin4687 No. We don't need to end our species. Indeed if we just wanted to end our species we just have to keep going as is and nature will take care of the rest. The mark of a truly intelligent species is one self aware enough to detach from its base instincts such as procreation leading to booms and busts, and take charge in a logical, rational manner so as to stabilise and minimise their impact on the environment. We need population decline to at least 1 billion globally, then population stability. How we achieve that is what we need a discussion on. But this isn't just a national discussion, it has to be a discussion everywhere, in every country whether developed, developing or undeveloped on how population will be managed. The most humane manner would seem to be to create social norms, laws and policies which discourage young people from having a baby but ultimately leave the choice to them. But it's up for debate. We've been trying to start this discussion since 1964, it has always been part of the climate change discussion right from the start and it's part of every IPCC annual report. We desperately need the media to pick it up and start the discussion. If we don't solve this issue soon, it will quite literally lead to our own extinction and that of thousands of other species along with us.
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