At this pace of environmental destruction and resource consumption humanity will disappear in about 300 years?

Question

What are you going to do? Discuss

All living creatures damage the environment. A duck stamping on a snail stops its reproductive cycle; a bear breaking into a beehive destroys years of work of thousands of bees; a snake knocking off a nest for its eggs kills a generation of birds; an elephant seal eating a penguin on its way home condemns its chick to death!

Nature can SLOWLY regenerate small amounts of damage.

But humans broke away from the food chain when moving from the wild to civilisation; and their scientific advances enabled intensive and FAST exploitation of resources at the expense of the environment.

100 million people would be about the right number to keep up with regeneration, but a population nearing 6 billions cannot be sustained, and resources will inevitably get exhausted.

The more children you have the more you accelerate the process; in view of this; how are you going to help?

Answer 1

Ecological imbalance,ruining our mother earth,that is one of the major problem facing by the human races nowadays!aThe only thing i can do is to start discipline myself and my family as well as to be concerned about tree planting,proper waste disposal,cleaning up the environment waste and pollution,and also helping our community with it environmental programs,it might be a big help for my future generations!

Answer 2

Community Guidelines forbid me to answer you in ways you have earned!
Please note that you put a question mark at the end of a statement, there was no question in it.
What I am going to do is expose some of the frauds that are the foundation of your question.
Back when whale oil was the main fuel, it was almost depleted and only sold at the highest price until kerosene was sold on mass for pennies. Later, the electric light bulb changed the demand for lighting oil for good. As long as we do not have government regulations distorting out buying power, the best and cheapest product will have the highest sales.
Today, with modern farming methods we are getting higher yealds per acre than any time in history. We don't need as much land to feed more people, when we do, free minds will think of better ways.
Please explain when and how we broke away from the food chain? If you were placed near the north pole, a polar bear would help you to understand that you are not on the top of the food chain there. The world would be a better place if your lack of thinking were 'Darwined' out by the bear!
How did you get this "right" number of 100 million? What form of state control would you advocate to make us obey this number, commrad?
Att. readers, please give me a 'thumbs up' to show the author that his statements are based on falsehoods? Thank you!

Answer 3

Nonsense on many levels.
1. Environment is actually getting better:
http://www.lomborg.com/books.htm
2. Humankind will be around for a long time. We can feed clothe and house ourselves.
3. Socialism is the #1 cause of poverty and destruction. End socialism and the world will be a better place.
4. We have MORE resources now than ever. Example, more trees
now in USA than in 1800 as we have let areas get reforested.
Technology helps reduce ecological impacts.
5. "The more children you have the more you accelerate the process; in view of this; how are you going to help?"
Our main challenge will soon be *under*population, if you want to HELP the world, you should have MORE CHILDREN and BIGGER FAMILIES.

Conclusion: Mankind will be here and the world will be a better place. The only threat to the happy ending are fear-mongers who convince people to not have kids, in which case our population implodes and our civilization collapses from the population collapse.

Answer 4

We will never return to a population of 100 million. The current population can be sustained by vegetarianism, but the really essential component is expansion to other worlds. This requires some technological advances. In the meanwhile we must face the reality of our numbers, treat everyone as an equal member of the human race, and respect non-human species. A tax on resourse exploitation levied on every item produced would be a start.

Answer 5

I would be in agreement with you if you had said we are pumping smoke in the air and it will one day over heat the planet and we would all die. But you said "The more children you have the more you accelerate the process" This is wrong unless they all go to work building more climate heaters.

You eat and you poop it back out and back into the earth it goes. You are born and you grow and taken in food and you die and you go back to the land where you came from. so all was put back noting missing. You are now growing flowers and cleaning the air and so on. Not all places in the world was fertile but after man lives and dies everywhere on this planet it will be. We are breaking up the rocks and there are trees growing there now. So we are doing a lot of good for this planet by just being here. So till we quit using OIL and start using solar and other ways of clean fuel we can plan to all die around your planed 300 years.

Answer 6

Nothing damages anything else, it is refereed to as evolution here on earth.
Ducks to not stamp, they waddle and the snail survived.
The bear helped the bee's evolution and now they fly higher and make safer honey.
The bear fed her offspring, and that is a good thing.
The snake is a part of nature and ate food in the grocery store provided by nature.This cannot be called wrong!

. A bottom line to consider here is looking at things from a different point of view. Nature for example looks at change over millions and millions of years. Man is just a grain of sand in the larger picture of things.

The more children you have means the more humans you can have working on the solution to the problem you see in you mind, and that too is a good thing.

I am going to help you by telling you that there is enough. God has a plan in operation that allows you to discover and remember that the earth and nature are tools specifically designed for us to assist us in remembering that all is good.

Science has prov-en that nothing disappears but merely changes form, we are the same, we never disappear but we do change forms.
I am helping by sowing positive thoughts and hope for all.

Answer 7

Oh ye of little faith. A thousand years ago man had a life expectancy of twenty years, five hundred years ago barely forty. even a hundred years ago most died in their fifties and fifty years ago in their sixties. The life expectancy of someone born today is in excess of 100 years.

In less than a hundred years we have gone from being unable to fly to having men standing on the moon and unmanned space vehicles exploring other planets. We went from horse power to rocket power in much less time.

Before the advent of computers one job dustry did when designing a new car took a year to eighteen months to do. It can now be done in a little over a day.

If you dont believe how fast man can develop just look at what it was like when you were born and what it is like now.

The profits of doom, just like those men with the sandwich boards that say "Then end is Nigh" will all be proved wrong and mankind will not only survive but thrive!

Answer 8

The birth rate and the catholic church are totally different topics then consumption rates and converting more land into a productive state. Yet both of these topics have a very similar catalyst. The American way of life, money. The driving force behind everything. The Catholic Church has long promoted increasing child birth to increase their fold, thus increasing their source of donations. Consumption rates are obvious, all corporation want to have everybody increase consumption but in order to do that with th population where it is they had to turn more and more land into factories and farms, and although people naturally resist turning the pretty lake into a fish factory, they do want cheap fish.

Answer 9

Sooner or later humanity should disappear, if we continue to destroy the nature, the way we are doing right now.
But I believe that the mother nature is supreme, and it has already started its counter action against the interference of man.
This is in terms of natural disasters.
So, it will bring down the human population significantly very soon, and thus avoid the total destruction of ecosystem, as well as humanity.

Answer 10

It's a good thing the world is in God's hands. He made it and He knows how to maintain it in whichever way He chooses. We should still do our part and try to conserve our natural resources and protect animals that are endangered and whose homes (rain forests, meadows, etc.) become endangered. My advice would be just worry about doing what you can each day, 300 years ahead is a long way to look for the future. Just put your worries in God's hands.