Threats and Disasters on Planet Earth
Abstract
Human life on Planet Earth is threatened by a large number of potential disasters. Those processes are addressed, and discrimination is established between natural, man-made and imagined disastrous events Giant solar flares (of Carrington event or even higher intensity) poses novel threats not previously discussed. Such events would have totally disastrous effects on the electronic and electric systems of the developed world – only native populations and nomads would pass it without problems. In the group of “imagined disasters”, we find all the core issues carried by the IPCC project; i.e. a CO2-driven global warming, a rapidly rising sea level and severe ocean acidification. All those processes are unreal and imagined because they do not concur with available observational facts and physical laws, and by that they also violates our geoethical principles.
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Introduction
Life on Planet Earth is constantly being threatened by different types of disastrous events; some are natural, some are manmade and some are just imagined [1]. Some threats increases with our population growth and condensation to mega-cities and low-lying coastal areas. Plagues and famines have killed hundreds of million of people through time. Here, the progress in medicine and human health care have changes the situation drastically. Some of our building constructions – dams for water and nuclear power plants for electricity – have emerged as new sources of man-made disasters. There are also a number of proposed disastrous processes that, in fact, are merely imagined, and products of our super-effective lobbying campaigns. Figure 1 illustrates the position of various disastrous threats in a triangle diagram bounded by natural, man-made and imagined disasters.
Conclusion
Human life on Planet Earth is constantly exposed for threats that might lead to disastrous events (Fig. 1, Table 1). There are a large number of natural treats, which we hardly can do anything about, but to build up warning systems and rescue systems; i.e. to be prepared when they hit. Among those are earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes/cyclones, floods and draughts. Giant solar flares have jus emerged as one of the top-most disasters when it comes to effects on human conditions in the developed world. As the threat has not been properly discussed before, we have at present no preparations at all. It is vital to build up back-up systems and reserve systems in case of giant solar flares affecting our electronic and electric systems over the globe.
Other threats are man-made due to our building of huge water dams, nuclear power plants, houses in vulnerable positions, and especially the population condensation to mega-cities. The most ridicules disasters are the wars. Every day, about 25,000 persons die from lack of water. Starvation is widespread in the developing world. Mega-cities are growing grounds for epidemics, including pandemics.
Then there is a final group of imagined disasters. They are products of misguidance and massive medial-carried lobbying. Here we have CO2-driven global warming, disastrous sea level rise and oceanic acidification. It is just remarkable how these misconceptions have been build up to “a new religion”, it total disagreement with scientific observational facts, physical laws and geoethical principles [6].