onlooker wrote:then what happens when the wood runs out?
onlooker wrote:Well that would assume replanting and that rate of use does not exceed rate of renewal! Water is also renewal so is topsoil yet we are busy depleting both. I think what must be understood is that with the huge population we have we are depleting renewable resources because we are extracting or using them faster then they are or can be being replenished, so that renewing cannot keep up with extraction or use.
careinke wrote:vtsnowedin wrote: Your numbers are bogus. Average forest in the middle latitudes can only support one cord per acre per year sustainably.
DesuMaiden wrote:onlooker wrote:then what happens when the wood runs out?
We can never truly run out of wood because wood is a renewable resource.
DesuMaiden wrote:So is there enough wood for us to rely solely on wood instead of coal?
Newfie wrote:DesuMaiden wrote:onlooker wrote:then what happens when the wood runs out?
We can never truly run out of wood because wood is a renewable resource.
Easter Island
Lebanon
Haiti
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But we now have the wood vs. coal thread you started. So why not take it there?
DesuMaiden wrote:So let's go back to the main discussion of this thread. Why is it blasphemous to state that there are simply too many people on this planet? There are too many people on this planet who are consuming too much resources, too quickly, in an economy that only knows how to grow. This planet's biosphere is dying. There are 150 species becoming extinct every day. 50,000 per year becoming extinct on this planet. We are living in the middle of the 6th great extinction, which is comparable to the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. We are the cause of this extinction, because there are 7 billion humans on this planet using up all of the resources that would otherwise be used up by the other species on this planet. The other species on this planet get none of those resources and land because all 7 billion of us are using them. And therefore the other species become extinct. You have to be in serious denial that our planet is overpopulated with humans. And you must be even dumber to believe that infinite growth in consumption and population is possible on a finite planet. But that's what we are pursing. Infinite growth collides with finite energy and resources resulting in a catastrophic outcome.
vtsnowedin wrote:DesuMaiden wrote:So let's go back to the main discussion of this thread. Why is it blasphemous to state that there are simply too many people on this planet? There are too many people on this planet who are consuming too much resources, too quickly, in an economy that only knows how to grow. This planet's biosphere is dying. There are 150 species becoming extinct every day. 50,000 per year becoming extinct on this planet. We are living in the middle of the 6th great extinction, which is comparable to the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. We are the cause of this extinction, because there are 7 billion humans on this planet using up all of the resources that would otherwise be used up by the other species on this planet. The other species on this planet get none of those resources and land because all 7 billion of us are using them. And therefore the other species become extinct. You have to be in serious denial that our planet is overpopulated with humans. And you must be even dumber to believe that infinite growth in consumption and population is possible on a finite planet. But that's what we are pursing. Infinite growth collides with finite energy and resources resulting in a catastrophic outcome.
A reasonable appraisal of the situation. Now what do you want to do about it?
SeaGypsy wrote:Islam is far from a United force, so is Christianity. It appears the game at present is to get Sunni & Shia hatred to cause implosion of Islam as a threat to secular Christendom or Israel.
vtsnowedin wrote:SeaGypsy wrote:Islam is far from a United force, so is Christianity. It appears the game at present is to get Sunni & Shia hatred to cause implosion of Islam as a threat to secular Christendom or Israel.
True enough but let one or two of these radical extremist score a major strike on the order of 911 and the rest of the world will get united in a hurry. The truly peaceful Muslims will need to turn out the radicals or have all their members marked for extermination.
DesuMaiden wrote:That is if you actually buy the mainstream media's story of 911 being a terrorist attack perpetuated by Islamic extremists. I believe it was an inside job done by the USA.
ennui2 wrote:DesuMaiden wrote:That is if you actually buy the mainstream media's story of 911 being a terrorist attack perpetuated by Islamic extremists. I believe it was an inside job done by the USA.
If there's one thing you can count on this site for, it is 911 troothers.
I take it you're still waiting on Obama's birth certificate too?
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