RE: Overpopulation
October 27, 2011 at 9:10 am
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2011 at 9:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Again Ace, I (and Sae) understand that resources are finite, that only so many people can be crammed on this rock. When we have dealt with the glaring inefficiencies of many of our systems we can talk about that number. If that number relies on us continuing to fuck it up, with full knowledge that we're fucking it up, in what way is that a problem with earths carrying capacity? Sounds like a human problem (and not one of overpopulation). Is it honestly so difficult to understand that I'd rather fix problems we know about before I start telling people who can have children, and how many they can have?
There is a vast portion of this earth called the third world, which is usually the third world because it lacks any sort of development whatsoever. Do you honestly feel that we've run out of space and resources to do what we need to do when large tracts of this rock are essentially still stuck in the iron age (and when some systems in the 1st world appear to be stuck in the iron age as well)?
We may have new numbers on this, but last I checked, humans represented .33% of earths total biomass. Does that lend itself well to the idea that there are too many of us as is?
(just looked it up, our farm animals and crops amount to another 3.7%, making the grand total of our actions and existence (by biomass) 4%)
There is a vast portion of this earth called the third world, which is usually the third world because it lacks any sort of development whatsoever. Do you honestly feel that we've run out of space and resources to do what we need to do when large tracts of this rock are essentially still stuck in the iron age (and when some systems in the 1st world appear to be stuck in the iron age as well)?
We may have new numbers on this, but last I checked, humans represented .33% of earths total biomass. Does that lend itself well to the idea that there are too many of us as is?
(just looked it up, our farm animals and crops amount to another 3.7%, making the grand total of our actions and existence (by biomass) 4%)
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