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I don't know Pops, the world can get book stupid pretty quick. It only takes a gap of one generation unable to educate the next.

Much of all that enabling technology relies on abundant cheap energy. It's no coincidence that the explosion in population coincides with the world's increased access to fossil fuels.

There are a lot of things, other than lack of oil, that can cause the world population to crash.

Whether the population will crash because of oil scarcity will depend a lot on whether there is plentiful primary energy from other sources. If we manage to get thorium-based nuclear energy up and running, it might be able to compensate for a lack of oil, by electrifying when we can and using various other portable fuels (synthetics, hydrogen, ethanol) when we can't.

I believe it was largely because of fossil fuels being integrated into our food production. Without fertilizers made of natural gas (a fossil fuel) and machinery run by oil to produce and transport our food, we wouldn't be able feed 7 billion people. Because of using fossil fuels in our food production, we were able to exponentially increase our food production and thus exponentially increase our population. Without fossil fuels, we would only have 1.5 to 2 billion people alive on this planet instead of 7.2 billion people. Increased sanitation and break throughs in medicine decreased infant mortality which also helped increased our population. But fossil fuels integrated into our food production to increase food production is the main reason for there being over 7 billion people on this planet.

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Lyrics to....When a Man Loves a Woman (Percey Sledge)

And then, voila...magic happens. And whether you can afford it or not, 9 months later

Too much sugar was put into the petri dish.

I got a smart answer for that one, but I will censor myself.

Petri dish post explained.

Overshoot becomes possible when a species encounters a rich and previously unexploited stock of resources that promotes its reproduction. After such an encounter, only predation and disease limit reproduction of the species.

MonteQuest wrote:Petri dish post explained.

Overshoot becomes possible when a species encounters a rich and previously unexploited stock of resources that promotes its reproduction. After such an encounter, only predation and disease limit reproduction of the species.

That sounds like Americans when they stole Native Land, kidnapped African Labor, and fell ass backwards into free energy.

The Americans bred like rabbits and spread like a plague, eventually trying to consume everything on Earth.

Americans are THE OVER-population problem.

MonteQuest wrote:Too much sugar was put into the petri dish.

What do you mean by sugar?

MonteQuest wrote:Petri dish post explained.

Overshoot becomes possible when a species encounters a rich and previously unexploited stock of resources that promotes its reproduction. After such an encounter, only predation and disease limit reproduction of the species.

So, in essence, ebola has been introduced into our petri dish to control the overshoot of our population. Am i understanding that right?

DesuMaiden wrote:

MonteQuest wrote:Too much sugar was put into the petri dish.

What do you mean by sugar?

Calories? As in ff!

Timo wrote:

MonteQuest wrote:Petri dish post explained.

Overshoot becomes possible when a species encounters a rich and previously unexploited stock of resources that promotes its reproduction. After such an encounter, only predation and disease limit reproduction of the species.

So, in essence, ebola has been introduced into our petri dish to control the overshoot of our population. Am i understanding that right?

For ebola WE are the sugar. It just fell in!

Got that right Monte?

DesuMaiden wrote:

MonteQuest wrote:Too much sugar was put into the petri dish.

What do you mean by sugar?

If you must know, it is very common for a woman to whisper into her man's ear before they do the deed, "I love you sugar plum." Those words apparently lead to sex, which i also hear leads to 7 billion babies being born, sometimes in pairs, triplets, even octuplets. Ban those words in every language, and that solves the overpopulation problem.

I mean, seriously! Have you ever heard any romantic seduction begin with "I love you Nutrisweet plum"? That would be a definite mood killer. No babies resulting from those words. Nutrisweet in a petri dish does not produce babies!

Newfie wrote:

Timo wrote:

MonteQuest wrote:Petri dish post explained.

Overshoot becomes possible when a species encounters a rich and previously unexploited stock of resources that promotes its reproduction. After such an encounter, only predation and disease limit reproduction of the species.

So, in essence, ebola has been introduced into our petri dish to control the overshoot of our population. Am i understanding that right?

For ebola WE are the sugar. It just fell in!

Got that right Monte?

Sweet Ebola, Newfie! Can i make a syrup out of that petri stew, or would that be cannabilism?

And it has nothing to do with the sweet milk from the breasts of nubile virgins?

noobtube wrote:That sounds like Americans when they stole Native Land, kidnapped African Labor, and fell ass backwards into free energy.

The Americans bred like rabbits and spread like a plague, eventually trying to consume everything on Earth.

Americans are THE OVER-population problem.

We are the most over-populated country in the world, yes. Yes, we used slaves and stole the land from the Indians, a history I've never been proud of; but we all "fell ass backwards" into oil.

DesuMaiden wrote:

MonteQuest wrote:Too much sugar was put into the petri dish.

What do you mean by sugar?

If we take a petri dish of yeast and add a bunch of sugar to it, what happens is the yeast grows exponentially until they suddenly die in their own waste.