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Low Carbon Economy, 2012, 3, 80-82 /10.4236/lce.2012.323011 Published Online November 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/lce) Carbon Emission: Invalid Strategy and Ecological Rule Li Zhou Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. Email: zhouli@ Received October 1 , 2012; revised November 1 , 2012; accepted November 10 , 2012 st st th ABSTRACT Carbon emission is a problem of global concern because it scares humanity’s living. While CCS (carbon capture and sequestration/storage) strategy received global attention, some scholars argued that the present warming is just a natural step in a long range periodic change of climate. Here we show that it isn’t a natural phenomenon, nor is something con- trollable by the CCS strategy. Carbon emission is governed by an ecological rule of the earth: global carbon emission is linearly correlated to the world population when the latter is larger than 1.3 × 10 9 . Therefore, birth control is an essential component of low carbon economy. Keywords: Carbon Emission; CCS Strategy; World Population; Ecological Rule 1. Introduction cost of burning a ton of power coal, which is more than the present market price of power coal. Nobody expects power plants will pay for such a large marginal cost. The gap between the marginal cost and the market price of generated power can hardly be mitigated by the expected progress of capture technology because the coal price must be getting higher as the rich mines are getting de- pleted. Thirdly, sequestration/storage of CO2 runs a dan- ger of disaster. The compression work done on CO2 at storage largely converts to the internal energy of the gas. Therefore, a sudden explosive release of CO2 would be inevitable at unexpected geological or aerographic chan- ge/accident. C