Humans will think of something, we always do.
There is no need to worry.
The human mind is the most important resource.
Two thirds of the Earth's Resources Used Up?
by MegaDude 18 Replies latest jw friends
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gumby
Here's a sobering article.
I'll prolly be the only sick bastard who survives....driving around with an eighth of a tank of gas lookin for a liquer store.
Gumby
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Dan-O
The report, prepared in Washington under the supervision of a board chaired by Robert Watson, the British-born chief scientist at the World Bank
Gee, there's a surprise! OK, folks. The Kool Aid line forms over there.
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Robert K Stock
Malthus was wrong in the 1800's to say that humanity would run out of food and resources. The book Famine 1975 was equaly wrong for the same reasons.
Malthusian doom sayers forget that new technology and other forms of human creativity change the playing field.
Humanity is dynamic and creative. We are not in a static zero sum game. We will think of something, we always do.
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hillary_step
Robert,
We will think of something, we always do.
I presume that the scientists and ecologists sounding the alarm bells, the ones who are doing the 'thinking', are happy that you are not alarmed. I wish they would just listen to you and calm down a little.
HS
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Bas
Well, Robert, of course we will think of something but I think we'll have to have a sort of Great Depression first before things really start moving. Besides, the problems we have created over the last couple of generations or so are quite diffrent from any problem we as humanity have ever encountered. For the first time in History we are exceeding the natural carrying capacity of the entire planet. I don't think there's an easy way out of this. (or we should master nuclear fusion and all have foodreplicators or something)
Bas
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dh
It is bad for us humans, but I think this is the circle of life. We come along, do what we think is best, wreck the world, but we will never kill it. After we are long gone, mother earth will create a new life to replace us, or perhaps some of us will survive, and tens of thousands of years from now it'll start all over again, but different.
I think that is what happens here, not the end of the world, just the end of one thing and the start of something else. If only we could leave a legacy of advice behind, to guide our descendents away from making the same mistakes we have.
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jula71
There should be some kind of programs or incentives to push alternative fuels. For example, I?ve seen the new generation solar panels and the technology to store the energy. These new panels can supply 2/3rds the average houses power needs. And something should be done to makes cars more efficient. I am by no means a greenie, but something has to be done.
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dh
I think we could live totally differently to how we do now, it might be less 'sofisticated' in some ways, but it would be a damn sight better for the world.
I am sure we could generate all of our electricity without fossil fuels and I'm sure we could create electric vehicles that are efficient and quick and have a long and totally usable battery life... in fact an electric car generates more electricity than it needs and you could run a few houses off the electricity generated by one electric car, if we had a way to store that power... I'm sure if our best set their minds to it they could create the ultimate super conductor and the battery needed for that type of storage if they 'had to', just like we created atom bombs because we 'had to'... I bet we could run everything with bear minimum use of fossil fuels if we really wanted to. The reason we don't is because of the politics and purse strings. Just my thoughts anyway.