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Gore highlights world population fears
Source: Copyright 2007, Brisbane Times
Date: September 19, 2007
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The ballooning world population and the dizzying pace of technological change
have helped turn mankind into an environmental "bull in a china shop", says
climate crusader Al Gore.
The former US vice-president said the world population has quadrupled in 100
years.
Though it is now stabilising, it is still increasing in developing countries
with high rates of poverty.
"But it's an important part of the explanation as to why we are suddenly the
bull in the china shop that we never used to be," Mr Gore said in a speech in
Sydney.
"Even more important is the fact that our technology has grown in power at a
dizzying pace, perhaps one million times more powerful as our grandparents had
available to them."
Technology had made a significant impact on "this shell of the environment that
surrounds our planet", he said.
Mr Gore cited the chemical family of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which were
invented in the 1930s and used extensively after World War II.
It was now the 20th anniversary of the Montreal protocol designed to limit the
impact of CFCs, he said.
"Australia was on the edge of the bullseye for that one," he said.
Mr Gore, author of the book An Inconvenient Truth, and who featured in an
influential documentary movie on the climate change crisis, was speaking at the
launch of the Financial and Energy Exchange company's Sustainability and
Cleantech Investment Market (FEX-SIM).
It is designed to provide "clean tech" companies with a cost-effective capital
raising environment.
Copyright 2007, Brisbane Times
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