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In reply to the discussion: "Is a human 'population bomb' ticking?" at AlJazeera [View all]laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)47. Resources are finite
and there are many resources we require. Solar energy is only one resource for a single purpose. We still require non-polluted water, air, food and so on. If you think solar energy will solve all the problems of overpopulation, um Everything else is finite - land, water, air.
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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