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Albert Bartlett cuts through the bullshit and makes a very clear point on our future if population growth continues. There are no long term solutions for any societal and environmental problems unless human population growth is curtailed.
Excellent presentation!
Almost all developed nations are below replacement birthrate- problem solved. You simply educate women.
This roadshow should take itself to Saudi, Yemen, Sudan etc.
I recently watched ...( 3 months ago by wake911up)
I recently watched some recent video of Haiti. Riots, foot shortages, etc. I visited there in the early 80's and loved it. Very nice people though very poor. Now it's anarchy. Signs of things to come.
And what was the ...( 3 months ago by SteveWrathall)
And what was the response of the Haitian government? Normal short-sighted stupidity: putting price controls on rice. This may buy a week of peace, at the long-term price of robbing farmers of the fruits of their labour, and therefore incentive to be productive.
The land has been ...( 3 months ago by wake911up)
The land has been ravaged by over production. Not sure if its unsustainable cash crop production or not. We have an unsustainable world population. Add it up:declining fisheries, declining tropical forests, continual pollution along with a continuous human population growth. Disaster.
Yes, but that's ...( 3 months ago by kakudmi)
Yes, but that's happening bcause humans like to eat meat, which requires too much land being used to feed them. All of that land and grains can be used to feed humans, but each and every meat eater helps this planet keep rotting. Slaughterhouses pollute so immensly that it actually stands right next to the pharmaceuticals and oil companies. Eating meat just because we like the taste of it is one of the most unnatural activities on this planet. Hard to believe, because we're like killing for food
"Yellow", black, ...( 3 months ago by wake911up)
"Yellow", black, white are stable or declining. Problem is the brown race in both the Western Hemisphere and Far East. India will surpass China as most populous within 20 years. So if they begin to starve then it is not our problem I suppose. Population has tripled in my family's lifetime and more and more populations are becoming westernized.
Dark ages are coming. May be this is why US is preoccupied with the means to monitor and control domestic populations.
Array( 2 months ago by matchbox555)
answer =
1)much more nuclear power
2)electric/hydrogen cars/hydrogen planes
3)use coal to make petrochemicals
4)nano materials
no sweat.
next !
how about we just ...( 2 months ago by erikdavis33)
how about we just stop having so many fucking kids. stopping people from eating meat is not going to do shit if we continue to grow at the rate we are. a better idea is not to consume as much of everything. in the u.s along with most other wealthy nations we consume way to much resources because thats what we were taught to do by the media and these large corperations since we were little. if we dont consume as much they dont make as much money so why would they tell us to consume less.
Eating meat means ...( 2 months ago by kakudmi)
Eating meat means exactly that: consuming too much. please research on google how much it takes to produce one pound of beef, how much water, land, grains and human energy, then you'll see what over-consumption means.
I just read in ...( 2 months ago by YogaNate79)
I just read in USAToday, the USA population will be at one billion people by the year 2100. Since we have a higher fertility, birth, and immigration rate compared to that of Europe and elsewhere, it is believable. We've got the area geographically to support 1 billion people, but what I do questions is our resources for such a massive population--- jobs, healthcare, education, food, transportation, etc.
Think of any animal ...( 2 months ago by wake911up)
Think of any animal population that grows out of control. Take away the predators and they multiply until an unsustainable population is reached. Then either disease or scaricity will correct the situation, just like rabbits when the fox's are killed off. We are not superior.
american birth rate ...( 2 months ago by YragQuillo)
american birth rate is flat if you take out illegals, also USA immigration policy is aburd, people like Bill Gates are destroying America
To YragQuillo: the ...( 2 months ago by YogaNate79)
To YragQuillo: the USA fertility rate is very high, which replaces the death rate of people who die every year. Additionally, the USA is fater growing than Europe and Russia. And that is because of a high fertility rate.
no you are not ...( 2 months ago by YragQuillo)
no you are not exacty right
immigrant fertility rates are high
both illeagal and legal
American natives maintained a below-replacement-level fertility rate, immigrant fertility was at a similar rate to the U.S. Baby Boom fertility of the 1950s.
The immigration ...( 2 months ago by YragQuillo)
The immigration tidal wave of the last three decades has made it impossible for Baby Boomers to ever enjoy the 1970s dream of a stabilized country — even if all immigration were stopped tomorrow. The Census Bureau states that if immigration were reduced to replacement level, the United States population would still be growing at the end of the century because of the momentum created by the last three decades of immigration
thanks bill gates and other lobbists and illegals not American natives
Not "our" problem? ...( 1 month ago by WolYou)
Not "our" problem? Air and water aren't local properties. We're all living in the same damn appartment. The population growth in India already takes away our jobs in the west. It will take away the water and the food also. In the same way as the USA took the away the oil from the majority of the worlds population. Under economical circumstances, the US-farmers will rather sell their grain to India if the retail-price there is better than in the USA.
Absolutely right. ...( 1 month ago by WolYou)
Absolutely right. For 1 kilogram meat you invest 10 to 20 kilograms of plants. In other words, while you are eating a pound of meat you are in fact eating about 5 to 10 kilos of corn. But by doing this, we will help solve the population problem -> Dilemma. The more people starving to death, the better in the long run. Abortion must be legal and common practice everywhere. The sooner the better.
Well the Western ...( 1 month ago by imikewillrockyou)
Well the Western World has low population growth and in some nations negative population growth. But like idiots trapped in a growth machine we IMPORT people from Third World countries to make up for the children we didn't have. Why? To support socialism. That's right socialism, something that is a long proven failure. Our downfall.
Read "America Alone ...( 1 month ago by imikewillrockyou)
Read "America Alone" by Mark Steyn. Mark also likes math and shows that Europe as we know it will become extinct by mid-century. Europe will be ruled by Islam and it's a mathematical certainty. Socialism is not only unsustainable it's actually suicidal. An according to Steyn it's already to late. Thus America will become the last Western culture on earth - hence the book title "America Alone"
somebody needs to ...( 4 weeks ago by mycatisromeo)
somebody needs to teach this guy how to use a powerpoint slide :) But moving slides every 2 seconds is good exercise!
no, i disagree. ...( 4 weeks ago by mycatisromeo)
no, i disagree. Education and proper govt. policies should help stabalize population. You can't indirectly purposly let people starve to death or have abortions. But the problem isn't so much in the U.S. it is the other countries.
See any relation ...( 1 week ago by danger0usknowledge)
See any relation between Dr Simon and the
republican peak oil deniers, climate
change deniers, stem cell research deniers, evolution deniers, dinosaur deniers,
anti-intellect Terry Schiavo crazies,
rapture ready republicans, birth control
deniers.
The official recession will be declared
in 09 if Obama gets in & will be ignored
successfully like it is now if McCain
gets in. Climate change was ignored
because Bush did not want the expense of energy efficiency on his watch.
Such right wing ...( 1 week ago by danger0usknowledge)
Such right wing conservative crap. They
will be acculturated, and their population
will level off very quickly. That and
the fact that Europe will have to forsake
socialism very very soon especially with
the price of oil and the stranglehold
that Russia has in providing that oil.
Array( 1 week ago by danger0usknowledge)
I'm calling Steyn & his book crap.
Consider what will happen in Europe
when peak oil, climate change and
the credit crises runs it's coarse. Unemployment maybe? Rioting?
End of socialism. I'm reading
"While Europe Slept" by Bruce Bawer.
I would read anyone but Steyn.
Bawer is conservative and I disagree with
him but he will give me more reason than
hysteria which is what Steyn is noted for.
I don't even care if Steyn thinks PO
and CC will happen because it will
happen with or w/o him.
This roadshow should take itself to Saudi, Yemen, Sudan etc.
Dark ages are coming. May be this is why US is preoccupied with the means to monitor and control domestic populations.
1)much more nuclear power 2)electric/hydrogen cars/hydrogen planes 3)use coal to make petrochemicals 4)nano materials no sweat. next !
immigrant fertility rates are high
both illeagal and legal
American natives maintained a below-replacement-level fertility rate, immigrant fertility was at a similar rate to the U.S. Baby Boom fertility of the 1950s.
— even if all immigration were stopped tomorrow. The Census Bureau states that if immigration were reduced to replacement level, the United States population would still be growing at the end of the century because of the momentum created by the last three decades of immigration thanks bill gates
and other lobbists and illegals not American natives