Lorsan -> RE: Who Are The 3 Billion Individuals, Who Are To Be Eliminated? (12/22/2009 10:08:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WyldHrt Mother Nature is a cast iron bitch. I have little doubt that when the human population gets too high, it will be forcibly brought down, one way or another. All populations have a saturation point, and we will reach ours sooner or later. At 6.8 billion, you don't think we've already exceeded the system's carrying capacity? I certainly do. In fact, I recall reading once that if everyone on the planet lived like an average American, and consumed what an average American consumes, the carrying capacity would be only 2 billion. I can't vouch for that finding, but the supporting data seemed sound. At any rate, I think it's a given that almost 7 billion people is many billions more than the planet can support, and it's inevitable that sooner or later the system will correct. I've got no problem with that. It's the way nature works. If it's not superflu, it will be nuclear war; if it's not nuclear war, it'll be an epidemic of sterility caused by pollution; if it's not widespread sterility, it'll be something else. But sooner or later, the wave will crest and fall back, and the population will have to be reduced somehow. C'est la vie. Yeah, I don't think that there's any question that Earth is overpopulated already. Earth will take care of itself though. Just look at the boatload of massive natural disasters that are piling up as being overdue. Yellowstone national park is something like 15,000 years past due for an eruption. Yes apparently the entire park is the crater for a super volcano. Or the island (I can't remember off the top of my head the names of the islands off the west coast of Europe) that is one good sized earthquake away from sending the entire western side into the Atlantic sending a Tsunami into North America that will kill untold numbers. Or the New Madrid fault that is apparently WAY overdue for a massive quake. And that's just a few off the top of my head. Makes me wonder if Earth isn't cocking the hammer in preparation to defend itself. Personally, I'm all for pushing space exploration hard instead of population control. There's no reason to put off colonizing Mars.
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