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Shroomism
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Overpopulation
#7494720 - 10/07/07 02:51 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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There's way too many people on Earth. I think this is probably the biggest problem we have, aside from raping the planet and the federal reserve.
Even with AIDS and all the disasters and whatnot lately, the population continues to rise at an exponential rate. This was forseen as the biggest potential problem of the future in the 1950s, today it is becoming reality.
But there are only two ways to slow down population growth: decrease the birth rate or increase the death rate.
Birth control only goes so far and only those who are willing/can afford to use it.
Wars and deadly diseases have kept the population from getting too out of control. But now we are curing disease and keeping people alive longer than ever through artificial means when we shouldn't be (IMO). I don't under any circumstances support murder or genocide. But that doesn't stop others from practicing it.
Even still, 2 people are born for every person that dies.
But I do think that unless the population of Earth is significantly decreased in the very near future, and we don't change the way we operate in the world.. we will not be able to sustain human life on this planet for very much longer.
We need to live in harmony with each other and with the planet, and that involves maintaining a sane population level that does not damage the Earth.
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Shroomism]
#7494731 - 10/07/07 02:53 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Don't worry, growth cannot continue forever. Something ugly will happen once we reach breaking point and the seams will open up and kill most of us.
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Shroomism]
#7494739 - 10/07/07 02:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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true, but there are still immense patches of land basically open and free. Cities are packed like sardines yea but go to the midwest and just find fields after fields.
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Shroomism]
#7494740 - 10/07/07 02:55 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thus why they dont release the cure for AIDS. We're our own worst enemy and the worse part is nothings going to be done about it. I feel bad for my future great grandchildren
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Sheepish]
#7494744 - 10/07/07 02:55 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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just start spraying
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Sheepish]
#7494745 - 10/07/07 02:56 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I tend to agree.. Nature takes care of herself. If we are looking at history, there are 'shifts' every few thousand years, where major disasters happen and large populations of people are wiped out.
I'm just thinking will we learn from our mistakes this time around
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Shroomism]
#7494747 - 10/07/07 02:56 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i hope a huge epidemic wipes through india and china
not to be racist or anthing but there is way to many of those people
god damn were fucked
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Trouble is most of the open areas are vacant for a reason. A lot of them are prone to flash floods or not very habitable.
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cApTaInCrAp said: Thus why they dont release the cure for AIDS. We're our own worst enemy and the worse part is nothings going to be done about it. I feel bad for my future great grandchildren
If they don't release and AIDS cure, than there should be NOTHING going on for cancer patients, it's a hard decision to make.
I'm counting on a new fast moving plague, or nuclear explosion within the next 100 years. Maybe something natural could happen like a massive caldera eruption, ie- yellowstone
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Atheist]
#7494763 - 10/07/07 02:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yesh. There's way too many of us too though. It's hard to live in harmony with nature when there's some 7 billion people on earth. That's insane.
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Shroomism]
#7494773 - 10/07/07 03:01 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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The Tragedy of the Commons
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Shroomism]
#7494776 - 10/07/07 03:02 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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We aren't even halfway to the carrying capacity that the Earth can hold. Add crop fertilizer and medicine to the list that is contributing to the exploding world population. Technically we should have ran out of food decades ago with this many fucking people around. The problem isn't so much the developed countries that is contributing to mass human reproduction, but the less developing countries. And the latter's reasons for reproducing are usually very short-sighted.
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: bukkake]
#7494792 - 10/07/07 03:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's a phallacy if I've ever heard one. We (America) are probably just as bad, if not worse than China as far as our raping of the planet goes. In fact I would say the exact opposite of what you just did - the "developed countries" are causing FAR more harm than the "less developing counties"
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Shroomism]
#7494794 - 10/07/07 03:05 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Theres PLENTY of room left on this planet to survive this life time. Future generations might not be so lucky, but fuck em!
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I always figured that the planet had built in defense mechanisim in place to prevent this.
Ill go ahead and assume that our melting of the polar ice caps due to global warming, and the industrialization of the world, will release air that has been trapped for millions of years.
im going to assume that somewhere in that frozen ice is a devastating virus or other bacteria that will take out most of the population when we reach that depth of melted ice.....
yeah... im baked.
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Shroomism]
#7494802 - 10/07/07 03:06 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I was speaking in terms of population.
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: aDoS]
#7494808 - 10/07/07 03:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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aDoS said: Future generations might not be so lucky, but fuck em!
Wrong attitude.
And you think we're completely safe from the effects of our fuckups?
So I guess you support our military using radioactive DU munitions too eh?
Hey... we can leave deadly radiation there for every life form that goes near there for the next 3.5 million years.. FUCK EM RIGHT?
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: Shroomism]
#7494818 - 10/07/07 03:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Your saving the world by one serious post at a time
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: ZippoZ]
#7494819 - 10/07/07 03:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Honestly I see some major natural disasters taking place and probably billions of people dying.
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Re: Overpopulation [Re: aDoS]
#7494826 - 10/07/07 03:12 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm expressing my opinion one post at a time.
The mentality, "Hey this wont kill me in this lifetime, fuck the people that come after me".. is what got us here in the first fucking place.
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