How To Make Earth's Population Sustainable?

[Woodsprite]

Socialism is a nice even way to kill everyone off. Overpopulation is one of the most dangerous lies to date. You can fit the entire earth's population in the county of Jacksonville, Florida and they'd still be able to move around. Sure, the big cities are crowded, but if you don't like the city, move! The earth is a vast place. Some'd say, "Only 3% is habitable." Nice point, but the average human brain uses 3% of its capacity; are we all imbeciles?

Sorry if I'm being zealous about this, but we've got some crazy people out there. I know you, Tsyal, don't want simple population control like what the Chinese have, I understand your point. But the people currently in power don't care. I've written extensively on this before.

"In order to stabilize world population we must eliminate 350,000 people per day."

--Jacques Cousteau, Demanding Accountability, United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1994; pp. 84-85

"People are the cause of all the problems; we have too many of them; we need to get rid of some of them, and this [ban of DDT] is as good a way as any."

--Charles Wurster, Environmental Defence Fund

"...must either reduce the earth's human population to 1 billion or reduce the standard of living to an agrarian 'peasant' status."

--Convention on Biological Diversity signed by the United States in New York, June 4, 1993; announced on the Platform for the United Nations urban-ecological summit held in Istabul, Turkey; June 1996

"The world has cancer, and the cancer is man."

--Alan Gregg, Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974

"A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."

--Ted Turner, CNN

"If I could be reincarnated, I would wish to return to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."

--Prince Philip, President-World Wildlife Fund

7 miles north of Elberton, Georgia on Highway 77, 100 yards off the road on the right are the Georgia Guidstones, which were erected on March 22, 1980, by the Masonic Lodge. The stones are full of Masonic symbols. On these stones are the "Ten Commandments of the New Age." On one part of it it reads, "AUTHOR: R. C. CHRISTIAN (A PSEUDONYM)" Under this is written, "SPONSORS: A SMALL GROUP OF AMERICANS WHO SEEK THE AGE OF REASON." Here's where it gets a little creepy. The first "commandment" states, "MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000 IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE."

[Fosus]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

...Nice point, but the average human brain uses 3% of its capacity..

That's just simply not true. Average human brain uses 100% of it's capacity and this is not the thing wrong in your post.

As for the original question, I think it's going to happen automatically. While overpopulating the Earth, we are at the same time polluting the air. Global Warming will eventually come to the point that certain parts of the planet will turn into desert, and people living in those areas will die..

[Woodsprite]

Originally Posted by Fosus

That's just simply not true. Average human brain uses 100% of it's capacity and this is not the thing wrong in your post.

..Um, no. I know what you're thinking, and that's not what I meant.

The brain usage throughout our lives is 100%. Absolutely. That's concerning mechanical use. By capacity I meant the full potential of our brain storage capacity, as in the volume used to store information is maximum 3%, and that's going waay far off a limb. I was wrong, I admit: the full storage is far less than 3%. Some scientists say it's only 0.01-0.1% you use to store information in one given lifetime. In other words, if we were to live 1000 years, we would probably end up using about... say, 13-14% of our information storage. That's my guess. No one truly knows the full storage capacity. Oldest recorded death was 122 years, and calculated out he used (assuming he took in information at a constant rate) about 64 petabytes of information, and he still had a LOT more to go, probably.

Originally Posted by Fosus

While overpopulating the Earth, we are at the same time polluting the air. Global Warming will eventually come to the point that certain parts of the planet will turn into desert, and people living in those areas will die..

Mmm... I'll just let this one slide like I did the "am I losing it?" thread. That's for another long, long, LONG.... discussion.

[Isard]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

Socialism is a nice even way to kill everyone off. Overpopulation is one of the most dangerous lies to date. You can fit the entire earth's population in the county of Jacksonville, Florida and they'd still be able to move around.

A standard human, lets say takes up 1 square meter of space standing up. 7 billion square meters would become 70thousand square kilometers of space.

O.o

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