Posted on 01/02/2023 1:55:07 PM PST by cuz1961
In what year will the human population grow too large for the Earth to sustain? The answer is about 1970, according to research by the World Wildlife Fund.
In 1970, the planet's 3 and a half billion people were sustainable. But on this New Year's Day, the population is 8 billion. Today, wild plants and animals are running out of places to live. The scientists you're about to meet say the Earth is suffering a crisis of mass extinction on a scale unseen since the dinosaurs.
We're going to show you a possible solution, but first, have a look at how humanity is already suffering from the vanishing wild.
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The answer is about 1970,
according to research by the World Wildlife Fund.
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Well if they were wrong then,
why should I listen to them now ?
World fear mongering Communist grifters fund is more like it.
Nonsense. This buffoonish poltroon has been wrong on all his predictions. Pelley is just a sycophantic numbskull.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/the-extinction-next-time.php
Uh, nope.
I only knew one pilot that believed the “over population” line. He got hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Thankfully, he wasn’t a captain. I wonder if he “pre-flighted” his bicycle. Clearly not thinking while doing “walk-arounds.”
I don’t disagree with the notion that the earth has a “carrying capacity” for humans. Is it 10 Billion? 50 Billion? 100 Billion? 500 Billion”?
The big question is when do we start worrying about it and do something about it.
I live in the largely unpopulated West. There are not many people between the 100th meridian and the western mountain ranges (Sierras and Cascades). Even fewer if you take out the cities like Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Tucson and Boise.
But we’ve seen huge growth here in the Inland Northwest and it’s the biggest complaint people have — too many damn people moving in and ruining it.
Hey, the “We will all be dead in 12 years” is a dud. So now drag this out. When it comes to fear mongering, they are endlessly creative.
This overpopulation nonsense is so played out.
The Earth’s population is set to star decreasing in the latter stages of this century due to declining birth rates.
They are actually quoting Paul Ehrlich as an authority. *facepalm*
With the terraforming capabilities we’d inherently have as the population grows, we could easily sustain a trillion people on earth (think of it basically being transformed into a multi-level giant space station, with large spaces for wildlife, agriculture, etc. with nuclear fission/fusion power). The people spouting about a “sustainable” population smaller than what we have today have absolutely no imagination and are stuck in a Malthusian mindset that has proved ludicrously wrong for centuries running.
so ALL HUMANS MUST DIE
Don’t worry, the nukes are coming.
Tell that to the deer, raccoons, foxes, and coyotes that routinely wander my subdivision, even though we border a large forested area. After we installed security cameras, it was shocking to see all of the animals that come and go in our neighborhood every night. They’ve obviously decided that it’s easier to find food here than to forage the natural way. They have plenty of natural territory to themselves; they’ve just figured out that humans provide easier options for finding food, especially in winter.
>Hey, the “We will all be dead in 12 years” is a dud. So now drag this out. When it comes to fear mongering, they are endlessly creative.
Not really. It’s been one steady drumbeat of “most of you need to die already” and an endless variety of complete nonsense that is only there to justify to themselves the genocide they’re trying to effect.
I have never heard of one of these eugenicists leading by example.
We had the shocking and frightening news last week that the northern hemisphere is losing two minutes of sunlight every day, and if this crisis continues, we will be in total darkness by June or July. Frightening new information has surfaced from Daylight Change Research. The data indicates drastic changes to the environment that have already started. Many species of birds, millions of individual birds have left the northern hemisphere. The impact of the loss of these birds is unimaginable. Insect life has been severely affected. Most can no longer be observed. Large mammals have been observed lying in a state of near death torpor in their dens. Crop production has fallen to dangerously low levels, and the models and the research predict famine in the very near future. In addition, computer models did not project this, but actual eyewitness observation has shown that most, if not all, leaves have fallen off all trees in the researcher’s hometown. Now, these and other effects of the loss of daylight demand our immediate attention if we are to prevent a climate catastrophe. Remember, total darkness and everything that would result from it by June or July if we cannot enact policies now that change this leakage.
Human population is on schedule to peak around middle of this century and then beginning to decline and back down to current levels by 2100.
I know. Its like they never seen The 5th Element or Star Wars.
We are surrounded by a bunch of chicken littles.
There used to be plenty of places for wildlife before they carpeted the land with solar panels and windmills as far as the eye can see
declining birth rates.
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Inconvenient fact for them.
Other than this hit piece, the number most rational people use is 40 billion - baring no further advances in agriculture: farming, ranching or fishing.
Well, we could turn half the world’s population of humans into Soylent Green, and we would be safe again.
But, we would be safe only if the half that’s turned into soylent green are all leftists: communists, liberals, progr3essives, democrats, government-dependents and the lazy.
Will the leftists agree to go away willingly to save the planet and solve the extinction problems?
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