Southernsoldier wrote:
I suppose it's what I do best...
Nazis fishing for confederate danishes with dolphin bait is not exactly a major global issue, but I can see what you're trying to say.
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while you guys bitching about the people population, we've got a problem of our own here, Cane Toads !
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rooperi wrote:
CrackersMcGee wrote:
elizabethlonehvid wrote:
Human beings can do anything they want to do.
This is exactly the kind of thinking that got us where we are today.
I like pie.
Me too.
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good thats 1
the whole worlds gonna be a ball of fire polar bears dyin as the seas get higher!!!!
OH NOO!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE POLAR BEARS
kco wrote:
i am 6 yu now,you shold lisen to I argments.
Nice attempt at spelling "arguments",bro.Why don't you go play checkers.
rooperi wrote:
CrackersMcGee wrote:
elizabethlonehvid wrote:
Human beings can do anything they want to do.
This is exactly the kind of thinking that got us where we are today.
Also, in my post the figures assume a fair and equitable distribution of resources.
That is not happenning. The earth can probably support many billions if everybody had the lifestyle of Somali peasants. But the fact is thar one West European or American family has the consumtion of an entire Somali village, and more. So the argument that "only countries that can't afford it are overpopulated" is a fallacy. We can afford more poor people, we can't afford more consumers.
Because poor people are a blessing to the economy...
InfinityBoss wrote:
kco wrote:
i am 6 yu now,you shold lisen to I argments.
Nice attempt at spelling "arguments",bro.Why don't you go play checkers.
Bad attempt at playing chess, genius. Why don't you go play checkers?
It's fine, we'll just grow gills, or learn to breathe in space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
Golgafrincham is a red semi-desert planet that is home of the Great Circling Poets of Arium and a species of particularly inspiring lichen. Its people decided it was time to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population, and so the descendants of the Circling Poets concocted a story that their planet would shortly be destroyed in a great catastrophe. (It was apparently under threat from a "mutant star goat"). The useless third of the population (consisting of hairdressers, tired TV producers*, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, management consultants, telephone sanitisers and the like) were packed into the B-Ark, one of three purported giant Ark spaceships, and told that everyone else would follow shortly in the other two. The other two thirds of the population, of course, did not follow and "led full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone".
rooperi wrote:
Look at it this way:
Imagine you ignore all the oceans and join all the land mass on earth together. Now you spread out the total population evenly over the landmass. with the current population, your neighbours would be about 98 meters ahead, behind, left and right of you.You have about 10,000 sq m on which to support your life.
Remember, you 10,000 sq m includes farmland, deserts, mountains, jungle, rivers, a good chunk of Antarctic ice fields, tundra, cities etc.
On this area you not only have to feed yourself with crops and livestock (remember, livestock need to eat too!) but you have to mine your minerals for manufacturing and energy, you need a space to live, a space to work, a space to relax, a space for waste products that wont contaminate everything else, you have to concede some of your space for factories, shops, infrastructure etc.
Over the past 20 years (Yes, in our own lifetime!) we crossed a threshold, we are now consuming more than the planet can regenerate. If the population doubles (75 years from now) that 98 meter distance becomes 71 meters, another doubling (150 years) and that distance is less than 50 meters. The arth does have a maximum carrying capacity for humans, and we've reached it.
Future wars and genocides will be about resources (including but not limited to food and water).
Superpowers will find excuses ( threats of terrorism, or whatever) to exterminate less advanced nations to win their space and resources for own use.
Your calculation for living space omits
Hey neighbor, move over, your blocking my view:
I have some spare room flags...
Wow... I guess I have started quite a ruckus.
Initiate discussion of major global issue. Act surprised when people care. ? Profit.
I suppose it's what I do best...