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Climate change and crowd behaviour

By Ronald Kitching - posted Monday, 22 June 2009

Carbon-based life forms comprise 100 per cent of life on the planet Earth and carbon-based life forms need far more than just carbon to function. Most carbon-based life forms have a liquid oriented system coursing through their bodies. We call it blood and in humans it's composed of a combination of iron, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and other elements. The bone structure of most animals includes calcium as well as carbon and other elements.

From a physics standpoint, on this planet, such things as carbon dioxide and liquid H2O (water) are plentiful and make chemical reactions easily.

All mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and even insects are carbon-based, as is all plant life on Earth. All life as we know it is comprised of carbon.

Regarding the unnecessary and expensive geo-sequestration of carbon dioxide. For every molecule of carbon they want to bury, they will also entomb two molecules of oxygen. This is political lunacy in action and in this country Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Senators Penny Wong and Bob Brown and Ross Garnaut are leading the charge.

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About the Author

Ronald Kitching is a keen reader of English and European history, economic history and books on quantum physics, the cosmos, our planetary system and books, essays and information on the possibility of other dimensions. With Roger Randerson, he co-underwrote F.A. Hayek’s month long lecture to Australia in 1976. This tour by the Nobel Prize winning scholar is believed to be a turning point in Australian economic and social policy. Upon invitation he also attended a ten-day symposium run by the Cato Institute in Moscow and Leningrad in 1990. This led to an active involvement in economic affairs with Russian patriots for a number of years. He is an advocate of the Classical Liberal (the Austrian) school of thought and is a Life Member of the Mont Pelerin Society after 26 years of membership.

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