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pstarr wrote:Adam, you are obviously a long time lurker in the world.

GHung wrote:AdamB said;

Time is running out homo sapiens

I'm so skeered!!!

Remember when this was supposed to happen back in the 70's, according to Ehrlich? I was all a'feared then too!

But it is happening. Maybe you stopped paying attention,, or your short attention span.

As we consider the Sussex County Comprehensive Plan, please read what I wrote, and what appeared in The Cape Gazette (Nov. 2007), 10 years ago. It is readily apparent that we must better appreciate the land, open space and natural resources, and the needs of people. As Dr. Seuss wisely conveyed in The Lorax, we simply cannot keep “biggering and biggering” with limited resources and finite space. As we consider growth and energy in these weeks and try to plan for the future, we hope all of us well appreciate two truths, ones inescapable as gravity itself: that population is central to nearly all societal issues, and that nature and what it provides need to be better understood and appreciated. We need to understand population growth and its bearing on the land. The land area in Sussex County is fixed, as it

According to the most recent UN estimates (United Nations 2017), almost one half of the world’s population lives in countries with below replacement fertility (BRF), i.e. with a total fertility rate (TFR) below 2.1 births per woman. Of these, one quarter have TFRs close to the replacement level, i.e. between 1.8 and 2.1; the other three-quarters have really low fertility, below 1.8 births per woman. Low-fertility countries are generally grouped into clusters. The main clusters are in East Asia, Southern Europe, the German-speaking countries of Western Europe, and all the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Table 1). In fact, contemporary fertility around the globe is lower than it has ever been. Since the middle of the 20th century, childbearing has declined by 50 percent: 50 to 60 years ago women in developed and developing countries combined had on

M_B_S wrote:every place on this planet is NOW over populated.

Proof : Earth population on its surface P(e)> 11 humans/km²

The only solution is decline of population to a sustainable level or migrate into space to get new "Lebensraum"