Global Weighting, a Significantly Greater Threat than Global Warming

Emerging research is learning of a startling problem facing the planet which is a much greater threat than global warming. It’s being referred to as global weighting and the gist of it is that the combined population growth of China and India, which are two countries that are aligned vertically and within the top half of the globe, are going to result in a such a massive amount of weight on one side of the top half of the earth that its centrifugal force could bring the planet out of its axis ever so slightly and cause the planet to spin out of orbit. To see this phenomenon in action spin a basketball on your finger and you’ll notice that, if you can balance it, it will spin perfectly fine. Now tape a small weight to the top half of one side of the ball and try to spin it. You’ll find that it is much tougher and in fact the ball will not sustain a true spinning on its axis.

We all are aware of the population growth of China and India but what is not so well known is the tremendous population difference between these two vertically aligned countries and the rest of the world. According to Worldmapper.com, by the year 2050 India and China will have populations that are 4.0 times and 3.5 times, respectively, the next highest country, the United States. Notwithstanding the fact that the average junk-food, fast-food eating American weighs at least twice that of the average Chinese or Indian, this is a large gap. The Worldmapper.com also has population maps giving a dramatic graphic representation of the potential global weighting problem caused by such a large number of people. However the following World Population Map by Bettina Speckmann and Marc van Kreveld of Utrecht University perfectly shows the dramatic population, and corresponding weight, differences between China/India and the rest of the world.

There is much debate about how to address the global weighting problem. Two broad solutions are considered; displacement and population offsets. Displacement is an obvious solution with a world organization such as the United Nations systematically relocating Chinese and Indians to the bottom portion of the other half of the globe such as South America (there’s a lot of land in Brazil and Argentina although they would have to cut down some of the rainforests) and Africa (the industrious Chinese and Indians could possibly improve the living conditions and leadership of Sudan, Zaire and Ethiopia). Taking a page from the global warming activists who are offering carbon offsets as a solution to global warming, population offsets, although somewhat controversial, could help solve the coming global weighting dilemma. The idea would be that for every Chinese or Indian man who fathered a child in their Country, they would go to the opposite part of the world and father a child thus “offsetting” the weight they placed on the planet. It’s considered possible particularly if the women who bore the child were given a large sum of money upfront, in effect a “signing bonus”, then also given a respectable monthly amount until the child reached adulthood.

One thing the global warming movement has taught us, by implication, is that there is no “Higher Power” that is capable of guiding and sustaining human life on this earth forever. Just so we simply cannot afford to assume that the global weighting problem will be “taken care of” by an all-caring Supreme Being. May the world come to see that global weighting is a much more serious threat that should be addressed before global warming. After all what difference is the temperature of the planet if it’s spinning into outer space? Let the documentaries (attention Al Gore and Laurie David) begin.