pastafarian
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With Human induced climate change........why is no one talking about reducing the number of humans that induce the climate change?
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[Politics] Are there too many people 2020
- Thread starter pastafarian
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Blimey, can't wait to find out how you think we should go about this!
Fact is, there's too many people on the planet. In maybe 1000 years it'll become unsustainable for everyone but let's be honest there's nothing me or you can do about it so don't sweat it.
Fact is, there's too many people on the planet. In maybe 1000 years it'll become unsustainable for everyone but let's be honest there's nothing me or you can do about it so don't sweat it.
Well if you want to volunteer............
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill - Stephen Hawking
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Shame this is no longer available on iplayer :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dl6q
Respect to Chris Packham.
Iirc population growth is tailing off with the exception of the African continent. The answer: get more women to go to University.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dl6q
Respect to Chris Packham.
Iirc population growth is tailing off with the exception of the African continent. The answer: get more women to go to University.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,310
probably, but how does one form a sensible policy to address this?
Live by the sea
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- Oct 21, 2016
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I guess if you live in a over crowded polluted city like London you may well agree with the OP. !
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Saladpack Seagull
Just Shut Up and Paddle
HE'S gone, but his ideas are alive and well and living in Burnley, it seems.
KZNSeagull
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The average birthrate worldwide is at it's lowest level ever (just above 2). In the 1960's, it was 5.
The reason for this dramatic fall is due to the lifting of a huge amount of the poorest people in the world out of extreme poverty and giving women better access to basic education, healthcare and contraception.
So there may well be too many humans, but the average birthrate is not the issue.
The reason for this dramatic fall is due to the lifting of a huge amount of the poorest people in the world out of extreme poverty and giving women better access to basic education, healthcare and contraception.
So there may well be too many humans, but the average birthrate is not the issue.
Yes Chef
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Billy the Fish
Technocrat
As a species we already can't live in harmony and equilibrium with the rest of life on the planet. We already can't organise ourselves well enough to give everyone a reasonable standard of living.
Based on that it's difficult to argue that the current exponential population growth is good or sustainable.
A practical and/or palatable solution doesn't exist. I've no doubt the situation will play itself out to a mass extinction, it's absolutely inevitable, just a question of when.
Based on that it's difficult to argue that the current exponential population growth is good or sustainable.
A practical and/or palatable solution doesn't exist. I've no doubt the situation will play itself out to a mass extinction, it's absolutely inevitable, just a question of when.
Machiavelli
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Jeez, the options on this poll are illustrative of the idiocy and irrelevance of simplistic binaries.
Machiavelli
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If you have a look at the evidence, there's a strong case to be made that the real problem is not population numbers but, rather, rates of consumption and, most particularly, the consumption of a narrow sector towards the top of society.
We need a third option: "Too many stupid people" 
blue-shifted
Banned
Yes mate, you're right. The earth could probably sustain about what we've got .... not loads more ... if we all consumed a sensible amount. I'm not talking about all of us living in mud huts, we just need to think about it more, exercise a bit of self restraint and not spend our lives trying to having some possession, or go on some trip more flash than our peers.
"The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
wolfie
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Not AH, but Thomas Malthus envisaged natural checks on population growth, such as pandemics.
Madafwo
I'm probably being facetious.
- Nov 11, 2013
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