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You don't understand that Humans are reproducing at an exponential rate. All the problems are there, your just ignoring the problem saying its not happening, is not the same thing as it not happening. Its going to continue to be a problem weather or not you think it is.
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Unless you limit the population, or invest deeply into Terra forming and colonization of planets, it will always be a problem. That no amount of tech based on this planet can fix.
The shear logistics of feeding a 7-10 billion population is staggering in and off its self.
There will be death and destruction. Civil order will break down as the haves and the have not's battle for limited resources....
.....When that happens, wars you have never even dreamed of will occur, even if we fallow your path to the letter, it will happen.
Man was either meant to limit himself, through living in sustainability with the environment. Which means culling the population, or It was meant to burst from this planet and go to the stars, either way over population is a problem and will happen.
what ever way you look at it their is not enough water to keep us going for ever . if you look at old images from space of what rivers and lakes have dried up it is shocking think 100 years ahead .
-Together the world produces 2,042,000,000,000 kg of gramineae (and that's only 3 of the gramineae family, we didn't included other plants like fruits and other vegetables yet).
-divide our production of only these 3 gramineaes by the amount of people on Earth. You get 291.7 kg per every single person on Earth per year. That's 0.799 kg of gramineae per day per person, INCLUDING EVERY SINGLE CURRENTLY STARVING INDIVIDUALS IN THE 3RD WORLD. How many of you seriously eat a kilogram of wheat/corn/rice per day? In addition to your potatoes? ......
.......-New York City is 17,400 square kilometers, and is home to 23,000,000 indivdual humans. Source: Wiki.
-There are 7,000,000,000 indivduals on Earth. Source: Wiki.
-All of mankind could fit into 304 copies of New York (about 1 or 2 New York City per countries), which together would cover only 5,295,652 square kilometers total. The total area of all continental surface of the Earth is 148,647,000 square kilometers (Source? You guessed it: Wikipedia). Do the ratio, and you get the following, which is...
-The whole of the population on Earth covers only 0.035 % of Earth's continental surface (or 0.010 % of Earth's total surface).
Now reducing the number of people on this planet to save on resources is NOT eugenics.
For one China has been trying to reduce its population for decades now and thats is not eugenics. It becomes eugenics when you favour traits over others. It goes like this, only fertiilise human eggs that have an high IQ discard those eggs or babies that dont fit the bill. Thats Eugenics in a nutshell
7 Billion people on this planet and you say we are not over populated its a myth ....Wheres the goddamn intelliegence on this site.......wish there was an ignore button wouldnt have to listen to this crap....
Take for exmple the depleted fish stocks, the mass killing of whales and dolphins, the destruction of wooded habitats to make way for farming and housing. The list is endless and all in the name of capitalism.
As for water you say? talk about saying the obvious that the planet has water all over the place. We can only drink a small amount of it and as for drinking water from the sea maybe you should check on the power requirements for desalination for that to work.
As you can see even thoough the number of children is just under 2 per family(on average). With over 700K births and just under 500K deaths. So it seems to me that the UK is still growing in population despite the huge number of people living to an old age.
Btw Genetically modified food stuff????? No wonder you sound crazy you been eating it havent you?
As for China females infants deaths.. Its they own bloody fault for being male chauvinistic pigs and shows lack of intelligence. The current chinese thinking amongst its citizens is that only males can do the family work. Personally i rather live in a world where men make up 30% of the population now that would be something to look forward to.
Disaster? If they hadn't been doing that for decades they'd have millions of people starving to death right now and they would be invading other countries for resources to support them.
You would think by now we would have learned that state decree of when and how individuals can reproduce is a bad idea.
On this thread its obvious we havent.
Growing populations still need homes. Homes need wood homes need infrastructure. This has nothing to do with corporations.
Corporations are made up of people. You get rid of the corporations what happens to all those people who had a job? Wait i know make them do the same job locally but then you still have the original problem. So therefore the cancer still is human as the corporations are only there because the public needs their services....
The cancer is the mismanagement team.....
I am well aware that the earth can provide enough for the current population but as i said if WE LIVED IN SUSTAINING CITIES that have minimal impact on the enviornment.
You will always have mismanagement of resources in a capitalistic system. It's all about jobs and making money. To give an example an x amount of potaoes is sold to companies who make crisps. If we sent the potatoes to feed people instead then what happens to the jobs at the crisp factory?
Cities should be there only for those who choose them, this should be the country and farming. Natural. I love the venus projects models but dislike his architecture and sky rises. No one should live in the air. Or in small cubicles.
We're going to increase in population and go into the solar system. This is a very old cycle we're in. But its really time to overcome the slave system here and the toxins.
Last survey done by readers digestable in april 2011 shown there was almost 57,234,345,211.234 and still countin the .234 235 was for the fact that was how many houses that were to be completed the next month.
whats so unethical about it? its a true statement. I too consider myself as part of the cancer even though I LIKE to think I am not. Whats more unethical is your inability to understand why we are a cancer. Did you read my initial post on this subject?
Originally posted by minor007
We are a cancer FULL STOP. Lets take a look at our economy first of all. Its all about growth and more growth. Thats the same way a cancer cell grows. Now lets take a look at what cancers do the to the body. It can kill off healthy cells (same as we are killing of animals). It can release hormones into the body that affects the normal function of the body(same thing we are doing with our pollution and toxic poisons). Cancer can become malignant and spreads. (Humans have spread to all four corners of the earth and never lived in harmony with the enviornment and definition of malignant
1) disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
2) very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect.
I could go on and on but you have to intellectually challenged or intellectually dishonest to see humans as not as a cancer on this planet
edit on 10-5-2013 by minor007 because: (no reason given)
So, you're afraid that there won't be enough place for 10 billions people, right?
Let's begin by a small number. A tower of 300x300 feet wide, and tall by 1500 feet (the size of Freedom Tower). Each "rooms" is 1600 square feet, the size of a normal house, and one room per person (each of these person has no less than a 1600 square feet house).
So... 300x300x1500= 135,000,000 square feet. That divided by the "rooms".
135,000,000 divided by 1600=84,375 houses per tower.
10 billions divided by 84,375=118,518 towers the size of Freedom Tower, for the whole planet's population.
That means it's 593 towers per countries.
It will take 3,555,540 square kilometers of land space.
145,091,460 square kilometers are left for free virgin natural land. 97.6 % of all land is left untouched.
It's still too much towers, right? Yeah, let's diminish that number, with still a feasible technology: a tower the size of Burj Khalifah.
So, 300x300 square feet of wide by 2400 feet tall (216,000,000 square feet) divided by houses of 1600 per person=135,000 houses per tower.
That makes 74,074 towers in total, and 370 towers per country.
Finally, those towers will take 2,222,220 square kilometers total.
Which leaves 146,424,780 of free virgin natural land. 98.5 % of all land is left untouched.
But it's still too much towers, right? Very well, let's bring the next prototype of towers, that are actually getting done: the one kilometer tall towers, which is just 200 meters taller than the Burj Khalifah, which is very possible. So, here we go again, using one house of 1600 square feet per person:
300x300x3000=270,000,000 divided by 1600=168,750 houses per tower.
Which makes 59,259 towers in total, which makes 296 towers per countries.
1,777,770 square kilometers are taken, leaving 146,879,230 square kilometers of free virgin natural land, or:
98.8% of all land left untouched.
That is if there's only one person living per house, which is not the case for at least half of the population.
.......-New York City is 17,400 square kilometers, and is home to 23,000,000 indivdual humans. Source: Wiki.
-There are 7,000,000,000 indivduals on Earth. Source: Wiki.
-All of mankind could fit into 304 copies of New York (about 1 or 2 New York City per countries), which together would cover only 5,295,652 square kilometers total. The total area of all continental surface of the Earth is 148,647,000 square kilometers (Source? You guessed it: Wikipedia). Do the ratio, and you get the following, which is...
-The whole of the population on Earth covers only 0.035 % of Earth's continental surface (or 0.010 % of Earth's total surface).
Originally posted by starheart
reply to post by Unity_99
The cancer is the mismanagement team.....
Exactly! It's the mismanagement of everything that putted us in trouble. Mismanagement of housing, of food culture and distribution. Remanage all of that, and we're back on track.
And yes, if there would be no rush for jobs, in order to have money to pay for the food, the rent of the house, the car, the electricity bill, people will be more happy and more understanding. Everyone hate the impact their jobs or lives have on their surroundings, but when they have to survive, what can they do?
Other than their houses, people shouldn't need backyards or land. Not if all the world is a giant public park. The gardens/farms/greenhouses are public, the woods and lakes are like a giant national park. I wouldn't mind living that way if it meant that 10 billions people takes only maximum 2.5% of Earth's land space.
Nice to see you again, btw! It's been awhile since I talked with you.