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In reply to the discussion: "Is a human 'population bomb' ticking?" at AlJazeera [View all]NickB79
(19,224 posts)37. "I've driven drunk plenty of times and nothing bad's happened yet!"
That was the statement one of my coworkers made to me once. Your remarks sound so very similar to his.
All it takes is one catastrophic moment and then all hell breaks lose.
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We're headed for a major die-off even if we DO do something and do it fast. nt
Speck Tater
Jun 2012
#6
And maybe if we look at some world statistics we may already be experiencing that die-off. I am
jwirr
Jun 2012
#18
us fertility rate = 2.1. population growth in the us has been solely due to immigration for
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#57
And this explains why they do not see the economic division between haves and have nots as bad.
jwirr
Jun 2012
#19
They pretty much expect the population bomb to do all the social Darwinism work for them.
Zalatix
Jun 2012
#20
Any size population in a non-sustainable civilization can exceed its carrying capacity
Zalatix
Jun 2012
#78
We will reach a point in the coming decades where the human population will peak and then decline.
morningfog
Jun 2012
#11
But we're not talking about simply one catastrophic event causing everything to unravel
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#40
"You can't just pick up a farm and plop it down somewhere else" I guess that's why to this day
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#61
The Fertile Crescent was quite similar to current breadbasket regions when ag. arose
NickB79
Jun 2012
#64
I don't think any serious scientist is worried about us running out
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#71
Have we actually changed the ratio of Oxygen to other gases in the atmosphere
nadinbrzezinski
Jun 2012
#79
Paul Ehrlich wrote "The Population Bomb" in 1968. The scenario has not improved since then.
11 Bravo
Jun 2012
#51
world fertility rate 2009 = 2.47 children per woman. should be less now since the economic bust.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#54