Rigby5
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Oh, BTW - the ocean has risen 0.78 inches in the past 1,800 years.A. The world is far from being overpopulated. You can fit the entire world population in Texas and give ever family a quarter of an acre home.The human species will fail Earth if it keeps screwing with Mother Nature.âOverpopulationâ is a RELATIVE term....
With higher population densities, we see more car traffic, urban pollution, and viral infections ... .
What we have actually seen in the real world is improved gas mileage and reduced emissions from cars over the past several decades, and increased use of public transportation. I already gave you an example of how urban pollution was worse over 100 years ago. As for viral infections, I gave you the most famous example, but we can look at the Bubonic Plague in comparison with 1918, 1957, 1959, 1965, etc. to see that viruses have always existed and over time our ability to mitigate the effects of them even in the face of a growing population has also improved over time. All of the things you want to point to as "proof" of so-called overpopulation are things that have always existed, but our ability to deal with them has NEVER been better than it is now with the highest population in history. There simply is NO 'overpopulation.' Even at that, as you have been told several times now, we are moving toward a global population decline in any case.
This threadâs title asks our opinion.
In some places, outside large urban areas, there is little âoverpopulationâ, But in many other areas of this planet, there is undisputed overpopulation.
I know; I have traveled myself to India, China, Indonesia, etc. Have you?
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Yes. You still fail.
.David Attenborough Says Climate Change Is A âCrimeâ Humanity Has Inflicted On The Planet
The documentarian reiterated his grief that society has destroyed large swaths of the natural world, but said humanity is ânot beyond redemption.âwww.huffpost.com
Unkotare is smarter than David Attenborough
âWell, a crime has been committed,â Attenborough, 95, replied. âAnd it so happens that, Iâm of such an age, that I was able to see it beginning.â
âIt isnât that I enjoy saying: âDoom, doom, doom,ââ he continued. âOn the contrary, Iâd much rather [say]: âEnjoy, take thrill, excitement, pleasure, joy, joy, joy, joy.â But if youâve got any sense of responsibility, you canât do that.â
The documentarianâs comments come amid ongoing and increasingly dire warnings from the planetâs scientists that climate change is largely continuing unabated. A report released last month by the Environmental Protection Agency detailed a disturbing shift in the United States caused by a warming world: The destruction of permafrost in Alaska, a spike in heat waves nationwide and longer-lasting wildfire and pollen season.
In his book and documentary, Attenborough pointed to existing technology that could help greatly alleviate the threat of climate change, primarily an immediate shift away from fossil fuels and an effort to ârewildâ large tracts of the planet, giving the natural world time to recover.
The threat, he concluded, has grown so large as to be beyond the burden of any one nation.
âI would say that the time has come to put aside national ambitions and look for an international ambition of survival,â he said. He later added: âWhat good does it do to say, âOh, to hell with it, I donât care.â You canât say that. Not if ⌠you love your children. Not if you love the rest of humanâ how can you say that?â
B. Only science deniers think the climate of today is optimum and believe that for the first time since time began the climate must stop changing.
Except that they would all quickly die of thirst, starvation, and pollution if tucked into such a small space.
The whole point of spreading out is then we each gain more resource availability.
And the problem is we have saturated the globe.
Normal climate change cycles are 110,000 years from warm to ice age.
We have accelerated it to a period of only about 400 years.
Everyone will have to move, as coasts go under the 250 feet increase in oceans from melting ice water, and as current farmland turns to desert.
Sure new places current uninhabitable will become habitable, but the cost will be enourmous.
And the oceans will not do well.
Ever notice all the main fishing is near the poles?
Ocean life does better in colder climates.
Thatâs why Obama bought a mansion on the beach, he knows itâs bullshit.
This says the ocean level has risen 10" in the last 140 years.