Re: Global Warming / Climate Changes Pt. 23
Posted: Fri 14 Apr 2023, 21:24:49
yellowcanoe wrote:Unfortunately if we don't keep growing our population something terrible will happen. What, I don't know but experts and politicians seem to be fairly united in telling us that stabilizing or shrinking our population isn't an option -- the only way forward is to keep increasing our population! We are going to have to continue building over wetlands and agricultural land.
There are many examples in human history of populations shrinking or even collapsing entirely in some regions.
This is usually caused by war or famine or plague or some natural catastrophe.
Global warming is the kind of natural catastrophe that could directly impact some local populations, and global warming could also act as a trigger that might set off wars or famine or plague.
Personally I think some amount of population collapse is inevitable. For instance, We're going to see sea level rise inundate large areas of the Nile Delta, Mekong Delta, Yellow River Delta, Ganges River Delta, etc. etc.wiping out the food supplies for tens of millions of people.
Cheers!