What if Earth's population was only 100? (page 6)

DaCheech

why you ask, if you know the answer?

you already point the answer to your political party?

Da Cheech, I told you, it is to cause people, even you, to think. I said something about democrats, too. I believe both parties are flawed. I believe the everyman for himself philosophy will not bring what the republican party tries to convince you it will. This is not a thread asking for answers or to solve problems, it is a thinking thread. Look at this situation and ask yourself...... In other words, think. Divided, devalued people will not thrive and they will not be able to stand against incoming people or diseases or famine or other kinds of threats. The notion that we don't all need to have each other's backs is very flawed. The notion that as long and you and your family have what you need, screw everyone else, is very flawed. Yet it is what is being spread around, like the flu virus. It was isolated cases that became epidemic and now pandemic. And civilization as we knew it is disappearing. The only way to control the spread of and to subdue this flu is to pull together and find solutions for all humankind, not just for the affluent and the lucky.

DaCheech

well seems like you're ignoring all the scenarios presented........... and still going on with gibberish

charlie brown jr.

If there were only 100 people........

You could literally say I hate EVERYBODY and mean it....

Lore

I reread the thread and I'm still not sure how republicans/democrats fit into this discussion, but comparing me to the nazis is hardly fair.

I agree it sucks, but that doesn't make it less true. Some people WILL be less useful in a survival situation. Myself probably included. In an ideal world EVERYONE would be taken care of.

But the moment you have more people than food someone is gonna get the shaft.

It's a hard winter and you and only managed to hunt enough food for 75 people. Who gets to eat? Your best hunters? The pregnant 20 year old? Or the sickly 90 year old?

Your best hunters HAVE to eat, or you're all gonna die. The pregnant woman has to live because she holds the future to your tribe.

I understand you're trying to force this hypothetical scenario to fit a happy everyone-lives-together-in-harmony message, but that only works if you have enough resources for everyone all the time.

DaCheech

lore, exact............... the magic word is ENOUGH RESOURCES.

and in medical: there is not enough resources.

FlyingHighNow

and in medical: there is not enough resources.

There are plenty enough resources, it's just been made for profit. There is plenty of health care to go around.

http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Condition-America-Business-Medicine/dp/0385504543

Read it:

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine

Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most flawed system, Time magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control.Dirty examination and operating rooms in doctor’s offices and hospitals . . . Health care executives pulling in millions in bonuses for denying treatment to the sick . . . More than 100 million people with inadequate or no medical coverage . . . This may sound like the predicament of a third-world nation, but this is America’s health care reality today. The U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation, yet our benefits are shrinking and life expectancy is shorter here than in countries that spend significantly less per capita. Meanwhile, HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital chains reap tremendous profits, while politicians—beholden to insurers and drug companies—enact legislation for the benefit of the few rather than the many, while the entire system is on the verge of collapse.

In CRITICAL CONDITION, award-winning investigative journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele expose the horror of what health care in America has become. They profile patients and doctors trapped by the system and offer startling personal stories that illuminate what’s gone wrong. Doctors tell of being second-guessed and undermined by health care insurers; nurses recount chilling tales of hospital meltdowns; patients explain how they’ve been victimized by a system that is meant to care for them. Drug companies profit by selling pills in the same manner that Madison Avenue sells soap, while Wall Street rakes in billions by building up and then tearing down health care businesses. And politicians pass legislation perpetuating the injustices and out-right fraud the system encourages.

By analyzing the industry and offering an insightful prescription for getting it back on the right track, CRITICAL CONDITION is an enormously compelling investigative work that addresses the concerns of every American.

FlyingHighNow

You guys just aren't going to admit that the healthier the 100, the more the chance that a lot of them can survive any crisis situation. The less of them that are well fed, healthy and emotionally stable when a crisis hits, the worse it is for everyone and the more people will be lost.

FlyingHighNow

In truth, a population of a hundred would put humans in to the endangered species category. Civilization as we know it would collapse, and we would be reduced to survival activities (gathering water and firewood, subsistence farming). I'm not sure if a tribe of a hundred would necessarily reach optimum compassion.

They might not reach it, but their very survival would depend on it. We have whole civilizations that have vanished.

DaCheech

Is your article saying that there is enough:

doctors

nurses

medicine

equipment?

BTW, by law quite a bit of equipment has a set amount years of shelf life before it has to be replaced,

What if Earth's population was only 100?

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