Abortion, the cause of climate crisis

There are few more devine experiences, than a farm fresh egg, sunny side up fried gently on a good non-stick pan. Served over a slice of fresh blood-sausage. ... No? ok, fine, served on the side of crispy bacon!

Teflon, a non stick substance that we coat our pots with, makes such a delicate meal accessible to everyone. But how did we get Teflon? Teflon has less then nobel genealogy as it was developed to support our nuclear arsenal during the cold war. 

In fact, a lot of useful, even life saving inventions we owe to life-and-death urgency of war. As sad as it is, fact is, we often display our human resourcefulness, our seemingly super-natural ability to invent mind boggling solutions, when we are pressed to do so. The bigger the crisis, the more inventive we become. 

Things we take for granted (radio, TV, cell phones, antibiotics, nuclear power, airplanes, home-alarm motion detector etc) are actually based on amazing complex, mind blogging science, developed often under duress. Newtown's physics (the spark that begun of modern era) was first applied to army cannon accuracy calculation. Army patronage, was and still is, a great source of R&D funding. 

Rich countries often lead in applied innovations, simply because they have more opportunities to allow their brightest minds to devote time to theoretical studies that are necessary precures to practical innovations.  

So what would happen, when the richest countries, were pressed to solve problems like climate change? We do have examples (or this one) of what we can do when pressed against the wall. What would happen, if the United States or Europe, had to deal with population exceeding it's energy supplies? Would amazing innovations emerge? Could cold fusion have lifted the world out of poverty 20 years ago? 

Would a doubling of United States population be the "press against the wall" we needed to solve the problem of clean energy? With 63 million abortions since 1973, and just under a million every year now, we might just have had the push we needed, the urgency necessary for an amazing invention. It is possible that another 200 million people in the world produce our 2nd Einstein making near-free, totally clean, totally safe energy possible? We will never know. But one thing we do know - we are most inventive when we have to be, and we made sure we are not.