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jlf1961 -> RE: Something really scary on Halloween (10/31/2011 4:03:20 PM)
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The planet has a unique way of dealing with population problems, it is hunger, disease and of course, humanities favorite, war.
In 2009, the African Continent had 75% of the world's HIV related deaths, with only 14.9% of the world's population.
In the last ten years, persistent droughts have struck all over the world, including the US. Whether you believe in the theory of human impact on climate change, or if you believe in the theory that it is a normal warming trend that has happened on this planet since life began, you cannot deny that the world climate is heating up.
Desertification is happening in Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya at the rate of 100,000 hectares a year.
Of course, to deal with the drought in the US, the farmers are using more water wells to irrigate crops, of course, with no rain fall, there is no water to replace what is being used.
Figure it this way, the planet is going to do something that we humans will be powerless to deal with, be it a global disaster like a super volcano eruption, some sort of pandemic, or world wide famine.
I am kinda leaning toward some sort of pandemic, probably something that we have a vaccine to prevent but the majority of the world's population has let lapse, so when it hits, most people are going to be screwed.
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