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Dr. Pianka’s talk at the TAS meeting was mostly of the problems humans are causing as we rapidly proliferate around the globe. The bulk of his talk was that he’s waiting for the virus that will eventually arise and kill off 90% of human population. In fact, his hope is that the ebola virus which attacks humans currently (but only through blood transmission) will mutate with the ebola virus that attacks monkeys airborne to create an airborne ebola virus that attacks humans. He’s basically advocating for the death of all but 10% of the current population! And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he’s right.

Humans are far too populous. We’ve used up our resources, and we’re destroying the Earth at an accelerated pace. The more technology we create, the more damage we’re capable of doing. We now consider keeping the forest natural to save a species of catepillar more important that using that space for humans to live and till. And I’m in complete agreement with that. It’s the harsh reality that many people alive right now should be dead. And even harsher to think that the world would be better off with them dead too. Or think of all the babies being born every hour with abnormalities that 50 years ago would have kept them from living. Now, those lives can be saved, and we pat ourselves on the backs at how smart and charitable we are as a species that we can create and sustain life. Life has a built-in mechanism that keeps species from becoming too overpopulated, and it wasn’t until humans started messing with the system that it went out of whack. Now that we’ve killed off the majority of all top predators, we now must take on the duty of keeping populations in check and at the same time, allowing other species a fair chance at reproduction.

It wouldn’t have been so bad 15-20 years ago when we reached that threshold of sustainability if we as humans would have learned to control our population size then. But instead, we saw the Earth’s resources as unlimited and our authority over them exclusive, and we continued to reproduce when we should’ve stop. Dr. Pianka made a very profound comment during his presentation; he said that China has the right idea by limiting reproduction at 1. We’re past the point of replacement reproduction as a species. We’re too many for the number we’re at now! We need to decline in population. A virus is probably the fairest method of extermination (though still not completely fair, I admit) because it’s nondiscriminatory as to whom it targets. Rich, poor, black, white, brown, nice, mean, religious, agnostic - we’d all be targeted equally.

It’d be nice if humans could learn to manage our population as successively as we’ve learned to manage the population of literally every other species on this planet with whom we share. We’re very skilled when it comes to killing off deer, snakes, rabbits, and fish for population control. But we’re a stupid species when it comes to managing ourselves. An insightful observation was made during the talk that education should be the key to learning how to take care of the Earth, but the problem is that the educated have fewer children and the uneducated have many children. So eventually, the uneducated will take over the Earth. It may have already happened.

2006-06-27 19:56:25 · 6 answers · asked by lacoste 3 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

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I think killing off 90% of the population would be a good thing too, except for where the survivors would go to get away from the other diseases caused by the decaying corpses.

2006-06-27 19:59:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Darwins survival of the fittest holds a balance in the world. Yet with humans, the fittest are fighting to protect the unfit, and those that should not continue evolution. Hence the strong that should be reproducing and continuing our evolution are dying while those unfit of populating the world continue to do so.

2006-06-27 20:05:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

God create this Earth, we the flesh sinful people make choices to destroy this beautiful Earth. Why? People think they are SO powerful to do whatever they feel deem to destroy in their path. How sad! Why not do the opposite of destroying? Ever think of that? People who are (think they are, but NOT!)powerful, because of their intimidations they inflict on weak people. Those powerful people are the ones who are destroying the Earth because they are so angry, full of hate, no love in their life, they made that choice, we, the other people, loves this Earth, will lay their live for God's CREATIONS! Why not, be opposite just to prove it is the AWESOMEST solution. And or to prove it is a waste of time, because of boredom to destroy this Earth.

2006-06-27 20:05:08 · answer #3 · answered by heysandyj 1 · 0 0

if you want to save the world, recycle. and bitchslap your teen daughter 1000x if you caught her having sex with her boyfriend because unwanted teen pregnancies add up to our already overcrowded population. yeah bitchslap your dirty teen daughters. they should know who's the man. you, or their bfs? hehehehe

2006-06-27 20:10:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

uh....

What are you saving? Either me or you is missing the point about what the word saving means.

2006-06-27 19:59:29 · answer #5 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0 0

We already have a solution - God.

2006-06-27 19:59:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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