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originally posted by: McGinty
You're absolutely right to quote those stats. I'm simply not sure i can believe their validity, or at least their meaningfulness over, say 100 years. Like i said it's a bumpy graph, but imo it's always going to rise over a large enough time scale, sans black swans. So i'm not saying you're wrong - indeed you are correct as things stand according to those numbers.
originally posted by: McGinty
Then the world has changed a great deal since i travelled round it 20 years back. Many places were struggling under the weight of resources needed. If that's now flipped and those places are now not overpopulated and doing far better with falling mortality, higher living standards all round then that's marvellous news. I'm also relieved cos it means there's no motive to depopulate, in fact it sounds like the opposite would be the desire of an NWO, so the conspiracy theories are debunked. Excellent
originally posted by: McGinty
originally posted by: FlyInTheOintment
Hi ATS,
the power brokers of the Western world - to accomplish their long-term aims of taking full control of & depopulating this world, absent any consideration of true morality.
Trying to look at the state of the planet objectively, with detachment - slow but accelerating destruction of its resources and ecosystems - I can see the cold logic of depopulation. All of the problems future generations face would be dramatically lessoned, some eliminated by a dramatic reduction in humans.
Until we can control our reproduction numbers responsibly as a species we remain a virus on the planet, exhausting the host’s resources in the hope that before they’re gone we can spread to other planetary systems in order to find new hosts to feed upon until they too die.
That is a dark, unforgiving view of humankind. But it’s an honest one. If there are indeed aliens observing us then I believe it would be like a superior life form observing a virus in a Petri dish. Whether they make contact and attempt to assist us would surely only come if they first observe that we’re not a viral threat; that given the keys to the ufo we will not spread uncontrolled, filling planets with more overpopulation and the misery and famine, pestilence and wars that always follow.
So, while I do not share their means I can understand the motives of those who may hypothetically be attempting to depopulate planet earth with, ironically, a virus.
I believe that the biggest threat to humankind is overpopulation. Some will argue that certain data shows this is not happening. I’ve done a lot of travelling and imo whatever data may show I’ve seen many cities bursting at the seems and full of poverty, hunger, misery and death thanks to sheer numbers.
Now project forward… while in some places birth rates fall that is just a bump on the graph. It’s clear that over millennia populations have grown exponentially, despite bumps along the way. A hundred years from now despite those bumps I’ve no doubt that sans black swan events they’ll be exponentially more people on planet Earth than there are now. All using resources requiring a huge upscale in manufacturing. All creating far more waste and destruction than we see now.
If humans can’t learn to reproduce responsibly, in a controlled way then what we see now is just the start of our problems, not the end, not even midway.
But needless to say trying to eliminate that problem in one fail swoop is a fools errand. It will just delay the problems as the cycle begins again. Moreover, who wants humanity to survive anyhow if it means we must become the kind of cruel, ruthless, morally devoid species that could do such a thing?
These lessons and new habits we have to learn will take time. As generations are born we need to educate all and unfortunately police reproduction until care and responsibility are ingrained - hopefully with more transparency and fewer casualties than the Chinese policy. If we’re lucky numbers will come down slowly, but soon enough to narrowly avoid turning earth into a wasteland and warning to visiting aliens what sheers number can do to a species.
originally posted by: McGinty
a reply to: Grenade
Then the world has changed a great deal since i travelled round it 20 years back. Many places were struggling under the weight of resources needed. If that's now flipped and those places are now not overpopulated and doing far better with falling mortality, higher living standards all round then that's marvellous news. I'm also relieved cos it means there's no motive to depopulate, in fact it sounds like the opposite would be the desire of an NWO, so the conspiracy theories are debunked. Excellent
originally posted by: Grenade
a reply to: VulcanWerks
I agree, but it’s nothing to do with a lack of resources to provide for the population and more to do with the monopoly of those resources into fewer and fewer hands.
originally posted by: VulcanWerks
That problem will only get worse as technology improves. Skilled trades aren’t safe at scale, either. Truck drivers, warehouse workers, grocery store employees, etc. will see a dramatic headcount reduction.
You eventually will get severe competition amongst low/moderate wage workers for the fewer and fewer jobs that need them. That will turn into chaos.
De-population is a fascinating subject as it’s the inevitable outcome either be design or natural evolution - and there’s way more to it than most people seem to be willing to analyze.
Note, I say the above from an academic standpoint, and no, it doesn’t mean instantly wipe billions of people off planet.
originally posted by: Grenade
Exactly, when you travelled. The overpopulated messes aren’t in the west, and we face a rapid decline in population on the horizon. The problem lies in places like Africa and Asia, and so should be addressed in those areas. The majority of the Western world that cares so much about population control is already below replacement level.
originally posted by: McGinty
I’m guessing you haven’t spent a great deal of time in London in the past few years. The urban areas are quickly becoming just as stricken as many of the heaving, broken cities of Asia. Overcrowded, with infrastructure broken and poverty on the rise. Many working Londoners have to eat via food banks (free charity hand out depots, of which more and more have appeared). What I saw in those poorer nations 2 decades ago is now becoming mirrored in the west. Another decade on this path and there’ll be no difference
originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
How do they lower the population without anyone realizing and slowly over the course of 5-10 years?