Newfie wrote:KJ
As you have said so many times over population is the problem. I don’t recall hearing any positive proposal to the issue from you, you just advocate abandons ship by a breeding handful.
So what is your suggestion? If you were King I’d Earth what would you do?
Yes, population is the problem that IS killing the current ecology and probably will kill almost all the humans on this globe eventually.
But there is absolutely NOTHING WHATSOEVER that gives you or Onlooker or anybody else a license to engage in the wholesale slaughter of humans just to preserve your precious lifestyle, your comforts, and your arrogant self-image as the most important person on Earth. You might think you are the one that has to live, that has the right to kill others just because they consume food and water and energy and all the other things they consider THEIRS and you consider YOURS - just because you might be starving, or dying of thirst, or freezing - but it isn't so, their human rights are the same as yours.
The present planetary ecology is doomed, just like the dinosaurs. I told you, it started dying 200 years ago, when the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus published his theory of geometric population growth in 1798. The literature and scholarly works of the 1800's are full of discourses on "surplus population" and the like. The anthropologists figured out how elaborate human behaviors are the result of primate instincts in the 20th Century. The cheap energy of the Age of Oil allowed humans to explode in population to 7.5 Billion, on a planet which our best scientific estimates say can sustainably support a human population of 125 million (low bound) to 1 Billion (high bound). Then the environmentalists figured out that the Earth had been dying for a while, and published their findings, beginning with Carson's Silent Spring in 1962.
We've been talking about this for years, oil peaked about a decade ago, energy and all that wonderful stuff you can spend money on will steadily get more expensive until all over the world, people can't afford to live any more, and start to die. Those 7.5 Billion humans are causing that 6th Great Extinction, which you have been living through your whole life. The number of species extinctions is a curve accelerating upwards as the planetary ecology dies. I'm sure that you have all this knowledge, we have been talking about it for years.
If the Earth had a King, he certainly would be as powerless as we all are. But I have a suggestion that may make you feel better, although certainly it won't save you. Vote for Donald Trump again. He's just as helpless as any man, but he doesn't know that.
Game Over, Man.
There will be a few survivors on Earth, I'm sure. But it won't be a nice place to live anymore, compared to the space colonies.