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05-29-23, 07:35 PM | #1 |
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We are too many
I say that since years, but some said it already before me.
https://youtube.com/shorts/edWxCHwZ2yA?feature=share Peace or war, CO2 reduction or not, eating insects or alga, driving and heating electrical - if we do not bring down population numbers, all that will help us nothing. And then nature will have her way and take care of those high population numbers in her own way.
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05-29-23, 08:23 PM | #2 |
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Relax, some mega-rich tycoon or fanatical dictator will one day bombard the planet with a deadly virus or some other doomsday scenario.
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05-29-23, 08:46 PM | #3 |
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We're all gonna die a horrible death!!
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05-29-23, 11:01 PM | #4 |
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Anyone who thinks the population should be reduced could easily lead by example. At least they'd be doing something about it instead of just whining.
But seriously: how would we actually reduce the population size? Sterilization? And would those advocating for population reduction be the first in line? I highly doubt it. For that matter, would anyone volunteer? If no one did volunteer, who would be the arbiter of who gets to reproduce and who doesn't ... and upon what authority would they act? Historically speaking, the population reduction crowd doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to active members. It's a slippery slope - unless you don't mind being thought of as another Francis Galton ... or worse. Like many other so-called "solutions", population reduction might seem like a good idea ... until you actually think about it.
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05-29-23, 11:13 PM | #5 |
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Most models predict a population peak around 2050 to 2070, followed by a slow but steady decline.
This decline will happen even without major death events (wars, large natural disasters and so on), as most nations no longer have a classic population pyramid. There are many nations around the woprld in which the number of old people outnumbers the number of young people, often by quite a margin. Also, many nations have a fertility rate below 2 (children per woman), which by itself means a net decline in the long run. The only exceptions are nations in Saharan and especially Subsaharan Africa and a few nations in Asia. Last edited by Ostfriese; 05-29-23 at 11:24 PM. |
05-30-23, 03:47 AM | #6 |
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1. We shouldnt have grown this far in the first.
2. Projections of growth show a widening probability tunnel with population by the end of the century being between 7.5 and 14 or 15 billion. 3. Nature will settle this. 't wont get nice.
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05-30-23, 12:40 PM | #7 | |
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Look how most of the ancient religions report enduring a great flood which wiped out a lot of humanity. But that’s religion! However if you compare those old stories to the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. Those ‘religious’ stories may actually give us glimpse into earth’s not too distant cataclysmic past. Read the Old Norse inscriptions dated just 1,487 years ago when what is thought to have been major volcanic event that changed the entire face of earth. The gods have abandoned you. The sun's rays are fainter than they used to be. Dim and barely discernible behind a misty veil that stretches across the sky in all directions, reaching far beyond the horizon. You are weak and sickly, your stomach grumbles but there is nothing eat. The pantry is empty and the crops won't grow. It should have been summer by now in this year of constant twilight, but the soil is still frozen. Thats not just some Scandinavian Saga meant to entertain the masses, it really happened. The year is 536 A.D., and in Byzantium the chronicler Procopius writes: It came about during this year that a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during this whole year, and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear nor such as it is accustomed to shed. And from the time when this thing happened men were free neither from war nor pestilence nor any other thing leading to death. And it was the time when Justinian was in the tenth year of his reign. Our tiny pale blue dot has cooled and warmed time and time again nothing new under the sun, earth has been there done that. And the climate crusaders response? Why enslave more of the poor third world countries because that’s where the majority of the resources for their electric cars, iPads, solar panels and appliances are located! Make them poor bastards dig, exploit them and their natural resources. Rape, pillage and poison them and the environment even further pile on even more human misery, strife and death. Just so they can drive around in electric cars and type on the internet to tell others ‘look at us’ we’re saving the planet as they travel to their summer cottages. It’s easy for the climate crusaders to continue wanting more luxury and convenience, because the haughty and self indulgent don’t have to dig. Surely we have done something wrong, the gods have abandoned us. Last edited by Rockstar; 05-31-23 at 05:22 PM. |
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05-30-23, 12:56 PM | #8 |
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That we are too many is correct.
However the important questions remains 1. How many is too many ? 2. Who of us human has to go(being erased from mother earth)? I think mother earth will decide who and how many has to go and how it will be done. Markus
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05-30-23, 05:05 PM | #9 |
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^I don't think so, it'll be settled by nuclear weapons inside the next 25 years, the human race and probably 70 to 85% of the animal kingdom will go down with them, the dawn of the super insects will take over the world.
The human race will end in a whimper as those pillocks who got to a government bunker in time emerge into a living nightmare, what a fitting end.
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