Is World Population Going To Be a Big Problem? (1 Viewer)

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
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#5
++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
Don't worry, ebola or the plague will stop it in due time. If not, we can always rely on wars or tsunamis to help out a bit...
Hmm, Ebola. :lick:

Although, researchers in the US are supposedly getting pretty close to finding a vaccine, so we might not be able to rely on that virus for too much longer.
 

Chxta

Onye kwe, Chi ya ekwe
Nov 1, 2004
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#6
Ebola is not that virulent :howler: it has a 'short' life-span as compared to shyte such as the Spanish flu :scared:
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
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#9
++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
Don't worry, ebola or the plague will stop it in due time. If not, we can always rely on wars or tsunamis to help out a bit...
I have little faith in those "remedies". Compare how many people die in a war or a plague to the population growth rate of say India (1.4%)..
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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#10
Amen, Martin. While I do think population control will be self-regulating, the methods for that self-regulation will be rather cruel and inhumane indeed.

But I do think all it will take to tip the equilibrium in some areas is a drought, a famine, a civil war -- we're not even talking about global climate change yet -- to leave wide swaths of the dead. Some socieities are balancing on a pinhead. Look to all the dead societies of the Aztecs, the original Sumarian culture, etc. Most of those are considered wiped out due to climate-caused collapse of the food supply and access to resources.
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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#12
Climate change is one of the scariest, most f*%$ed up scenarios for civilization. There's a good book out by Jared Diamond called Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed which is some fascinating reading on the subject.
 

Slagathor

Bedpan racing champion
Jul 25, 2001
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#13
++ [ originally posted by swag ] ++
Climate change is one of the scariest, most f*%$ed up scenarios for civilization. There's a good book out by Jared Diamond called Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed which is some fascinating reading on the subject.
It's rather frightening for someone who lives 15 meters beneath sea level.
 

ashwin

Junior Member
Jul 19, 2005
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#14
++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++


It's rather frightening for someone who lives 15 meters beneath sea level.
atleast we're not living in bangladesh...we got the opportunity to do something about it (although not much i admit)


world population already is a big problem. i reckon we should start shipping ppl off to australia. get another country that'll kick everyones ass in sports in a couple of 100 years.
 

Slagathor

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Jul 25, 2001
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#15
++ [ originally posted by ashwin ] ++
atleast we're not living in bangladesh...we got the opportunity to do something about it (although not much i admit)
I'm gonna have to buy a boat and swim to work :lazy:

world population already is a big problem. i reckon we should start shipping ppl off to australia. get another country that'll kick everyones ass in sports in a couple of 100 years.
Antarctica should be habitable soon with the temperature rise :D
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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#16
Erik, so how is that gill-and-fin-growing mutation thing going for you lately? :p

No, seriously. Anyone in Holland these days can probably measure global warming with how wet their socks get.
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
39,342
#17
++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++


It's rather frightening for someone who lives 15 meters beneath sea level.

You dutch really have to make a mockery out of everything uh.

"let's legalise prostitution"
"let's legalise drugs"
"let's live in the sea!"
 

Slagathor

Bedpan racing champion
Jul 25, 2001
22,708
#18
++ [ originally posted by swag ] ++
Erik, so how is that gill-and-fin-growing mutation thing going for you lately? :p

No, seriously. Anyone in Holland these days can probably measure global warming with how wet their socks get.
And not just by the sea either. It's raining 10x more now than it did a century ago and the rivers are swelling as the ice on the alps is melting and Germany and France also get more rain.

A rising sea will drive system of deltaworks that have protected us from it so far to the very edge, any medium-intense storm will rip them apart and cause a major flood (this is expected to happen within the next 50 years) that will see the total destruction of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Alkmaar, Utrecht and many other cities.



Raging rivers and increased rainfall will ultimately (within the next 100 years) destroy Arnhem, Eindhoven, Nymegen, Groningen and basically just every other remaining stronghold of Dutch culture which is them doomed to disappear off the face of the earth.

Unless we figure something out. Quick.
 

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