Are babies bad for the environment?

[JBeukema]

You said the population is too great and Earth can't support humanity. You've presented no evidence.

Whether current human activities can be sustained is not relevant. You said there are too many hum,ans for Earth to support their survival. Now, provide your evidence.

 

[AllieBaba]

The planet is over-populated in YOUR eyes. In my eyes, it's just fine. I don't see the earth caving under the pressure, or imploding.

No, but the struggle for resources has already began.

Fiddlesticks. There are enough resources. People are always going to fight over them, we always have, always will. It has nothing to do with population. When the world was barely populated at all, there was more starvation and sickness than now.

 

[Old Rocks]

There will be population control, and in the not to distant future. It will not be because one group or man desires it, but because of the actions that will have made our planet incapable of sustaining the present agriculture that feeds the people of the world. The results are going to be nasty, and quite unpredictable. Good luck to our children and grandchildren. They are going to need all that they can get.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

There will be population control, and in the not to distant future. It will not be because one group or man desires it, but because of the actions that will have made our planet incapable of sustaining the present agriculture that feeds the people of the world. The results are going to be nasty, and quite unpredictable. Good luck to our children and grandchildren. They are going to need all that they can get.

More CO2 in the atmosphere and warming regions means MORE area to grow in dumb ass. Plus there is no evidence the temperatures are rising at a rate that is dangerous to us unless it continues for several hundred years.

 

[AllieBaba]

Global warming wouldn't result in crop failure.
Global cooling is what does that.

 

[Old Rocks]

Watch what happens in just the next five years, Sarge. Then repeat your mantra again.

 

[JBeukema]

Global warming wouldn't result in crop failure.
Global cooling is what does that.

or droughts. Cold and Droughts.

Where'd KK go? She was supposed to demonstrate that Earth doesn't have enough food and water to support all the humans.

 

[AllieBaba]

I generally assume when people go missing it's because they have something to do.

 

[Old Rocks]

Global warming wouldn't result in crop failure.
Global cooling is what does that.

or droughts. Cold and Droughts.

Where'd KK go? She was supposed to demonstrate that Earth doesn't have enough food and water to support all the humans.

Global warming, and the resultant shift in climates and rain patterns will most certainly cause crop failures. In fact, it already is.

Warming May Cause Crop Failures, Food Shortages by 2030

Impoverished farmers in South Asia and southern Africa could face growing food shortages due to climate change within just 20 years, a new study says.

Increasing levels of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are heating up the planet, with droughts and shifting rainfall patterns predicted for many parts of the world.

El Niño is Back, Bringing Droughts, Floods, Crop Failures and Social Unrest >> Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com


July 13, 2009

El Niño, the warming of the Pacific Ocean that creates chaos in global weather patterns, is on its way back, threatening droughts, floods, crop failure and social unrest.

According to scientists at America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a new bout of El Niño is under way as the surface of tropical waters across the eastern Pacific has warmed roughly 1C (1.8F) above normal and is still rising.


(David Loh/Reuters)

A parched paddy field, blamed on Rl Nino, in Merlebau village near Kota Marudu on the Malaysian eastern state of Sabah in Borneo island

Further down, some 150 meters (500ft) below the surface, the waters are heating up — by around 4C (7.2F).

These indications have been emerging for about the past month from satellite pictures and an array of robotic buoys strung out across the Pacific. “The persistently warm sea temperatures are important indicators of an El Niño,” Mike Halpert, of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Centre, said.

“We’re also seeing a link between the ocean and the atmosphere, with Indonesia tending to dry out as tropical rainfall shifts towards the international dateline in mid-Pacific.”

The implications are severe, not just for climate but for the effects on food, water supplies and other commodities. Australia, still recovering from its worst drought in a century, will be hit again if the rains fail to nourish its wheat belt. Indonesia is one of the world’s biggest producers of palm oil — a basic source of income for many of its poor — and a drought would hit this commodity hard.

Farming in India is already suffering from an abnormal monsoon, which scientists think could be related to the emerging El Niño.

The rains arrived early but stalled. They picked up speed again only last week and covered the whole of the country, although rainfall is far lower than normal. There are fears that, if the rains do not improve, water shortages will kill crops and lead to soaring food prices.

Shortages and food prices caused riots all over the world in 2008, from western Africa to Mexico, Uzbekistan, Haiti and Egypt, as well as consumer protests in Europe and panic in food-importing countries. Rice-producing nations were urged to stop hoarding supplies as stocks fell to their lowest levels for 30 years.

 

[JBeukema]