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"This sudden increase in population is going to affect water access hugely. In the next 12 years water shortages will increase by 50% across these developing countries. This means that the accessible water in these countries needs to double before this happens."
"Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages."
"This sudden increase in population is going to affect water access hugely. In the next 12 years water shortages will increase by 50% across these developing countries. This means that the accessible water in these countries needs to double before this happens."
"Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages."
This is the same garbage people have been saying for thousands of years.
I'm humble enough to understand that my actions and resource use have an effect on the earth. The opinion that the earth will always provide for the human race is THE most anthropocentric opinion that I can imagine. In fact, I believe it is the very definition of anthropocentrism.
You think your little actions have an impact on the earth? lols. What an ego you must have. You couldn't harm the earth if you tried.
The earth has provided for the human race very nicely since the human race has been around.
Why in the wild world of sports is anything gonna change?
Last edited by OhioRules; 05-08-2013 at 10:01 PM..
Predictions in “The Population Bomb” a best-selling book published in 1968 by Dr. Paul Erlich:
From the prologue: The battle to feed all humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines –hundreds of millions are going to die…Population control is the conscious regulation of the numbers of human beings to meet the needs, not just of individual families, but of society as a whole…We (the U.S.) are today involved in the events leading to famine; tomorrow we may be destroyed by its consequences…Our position requires we take immediate action…by compulsion if voluntary methods fail. We must use political power to push population control before the pressure permanently ruins our planet…control is the only answer."
“In our irrigated lands of the West there is constant danger of salinization from rising water tables, while, elsewhere, from Long Island to Southern California, we have lowered water tables so greatly that in coastal regions salt water is seeping into the aquifers." P. 47
China has catastrophic floods, massive famines…Food riots in China, India and Brazil… 100 million Americans dead…bubonic plague in Eygpt kills 65% of her citizens…Los Angeles smog kills 90,000… Pages 74-78."
“Our air is noxious, our wildlife is vanishing, even the oceans are threatened."
All one has to do is change a few words around and you can see the exact same things are going to happen if we don’t give control over to the government to “fix” global warming. And before that it was acid rain and the ozone layer. And who could forget the new ice age. What a joke these people are. They been saying the same crap for decades. They just change the scare from population to ozone to cooling to acid rain to warming to climate change. Apparently it is back to population control. Guess the money is drying up in warming scam. In a few years they will find something else to make money and control their shivering denizens with.
Of course, he blames “right-wingers” and Catholics for these “problems” throughout the book. Sounds like libs today.
On page 78 he calls for “compulsory sterilization of all people with I.Q.s under 90.” That’s not a bad idea. Then we no longer have to deal with liberals and environmentalists.
Last edited by OhioRules; 05-08-2013 at 10:23 PM..
The population control nuts forget to mention that 90% of all people that have ever lived past the age of 75 are alive right now.
They also forget to mention that life expectancy in England in the 1600s was 26 years. It's now over 75.
Same can be said in virtually every other country on the planet.
If more people were detrimental then why are people living longer lives as population increases?
People are living longer, healthier, more productive lives than at any point in history. How can this even be possible? If population increases were harmful we would expect the opposite. If we were harming the environment we would expect the opposite.
Instead the human condition is in better shape than ever. We should be encouraging more births, not less.
If you have really been around for thousands of years, then surely you remember the time when your rivers were on fire, right Ohio?
I haven't been around for thousands of years.
Humans have.
And what does a river burning have to do with population. There were more people in Cleveland in the 1950s than the 1970s. So the logical conclusion is less people leads to bad things.
That is one possible future; a very highly advanced, highly populated planet. But it is far from certain.
If anything happens to our technological infratructure, then we'll begin running out of many resources within a few weeks.
Humans have always advanced. And our population has always increased.
And we have always made technological advances.
Why does anything think that is going to change in the future?
What is so special right now that we are going to stop advancing???
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