And little efforts at recycling tins are futile? And we grow at a rate of 10,000 per hour after discounting those who depart?
2007-04-18
09:46:26
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Politics & Government
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We ARE all on one planet so get this, if there is a population explosion in zone A. What do you think?
Im talking about the Human race and the end of the planet here.
2007-04-18
11:15:47 ·
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Stay_ got no clue. JC!
2007-04-18
11:16:51 ·
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It IS NOT about room but available resources. And If we go on at this rate there will be one square metre per person at one point. That is simple arithmetic.
2007-04-18
11:19:09 ·
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The use of the term myth in relation to PE shows a complete lack of understanding/ brainwashing. Consider a simple experiment that you can do at home to dispel the "myth". Start filling an empty bucket with tumblers of water one at a time. At a point in time the bucket will be full of water and there will be spillage.
The land mass of the earth does not expand. It is UN figures that there are 10,000 more persons every hour.
Each one will breathe out co2 and be responsible for x increase in garbage and y increase in consumption.
The water underground is depleting and the natural resources are vanishing to fuel the consumer boom.
WHAT MYTH SIR?
2007-04-18
11:25:48 ·
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As the population increases, the number of people flying in planes will increase and the number of cars and 4x4s will increase accordingly.
Myth?
2007-04-18
11:29:56 ·
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The entire natural fuel reserves used at the current rate would be depleted in about 50 years.
The entire Amazon wouldbe gone in 30yrs. Most animals and fish stocks would be gone in 50years.
2007-04-18
11:33:18 ·
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And at the end of the day, a shrinking population in one or three countries would not be enough to save the shop
2007-04-18
11:35:42 ·
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last 2 have an idea.
2007-04-18
13:34:03 ·
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Of course population is a major reason for resource depletion, but the capitalist financial model makes things worse by promoting excessive consumption in the rich parts of the world. Sooner or later, resources willl have to be reallocated.
Fact: if the entire population of the Earth was lifted to the average living standard of the UK, we would need three Earths to provide the resources needed to sustain that level of consumption.
2007-04-18 11:37:46
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answered by Huh? 7
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About 40 years ago, when the population of the world was less than 2.5 billion, people had the same irrational fears you are expressing now, when the population is 6 billion. The world is a better place than it was 40 years ago. Some genius once figured out that the entire population of the US could fit into Jacksonville County, Florida.
2007-04-18 09:55:40
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answered by regerugged 7
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Population control happens when societies switch away from agrarian. Poor nations account for almost all of population growth. Countries and cultures in Europe are actually dropping. population as women in industrialized nations have less children than it takes to keep populations growing. The solution seems to be to industrialize poorer nations. if your hypothesis is right, and population increases are destroying the planet. The apparent best way to fix that is to follow the lead of the west and industrialize.
Of course, like all liberal thought, ideas and values yours is no exception. it's based on faulty logic and lies. You are assuming that pollution is caused by the world's population.
Private property also seems to be a key to diminishing pollution. Those countries where property is owned by individuals who are responsible for it, seem to cause less pollutants. Nations like Russia Mexico and China seem to cause heaps more than the USA.
2007-04-18 10:01:18
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answered by Homeschool produces winners 7
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Yep. Population is a major factor that is burdening the environment. Any politicians and scientists who plan on fixing the deteriorating ozone problem will have to take into account this and realize that any step towards reducing emissions may just be counteracted by an increase in population.
2007-04-18 09:51:48
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answered by Deveran 4
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It's a myth, there is no population explosion destroying the planet.
You're uninformed about recycling. What country do you live in? Don't they recycle?
Here's some good info from an email I got the other day on population.
Most countries in the Western world have stopped breeding. For a civilization obsessed with sex, this is remarkable. Maintaining a steady population requires a birth rate of 2.1. In Western Europe, the birth rate currently stands at 1.5, or 30 percent below replacement. In 30 years there will be 70 to 80 million fewer Europeans than there are today. The current birth rate in Germany is 1.3. Italy and Spain are even lower at 1.2. At that rate, the working age population declines by 30 percent in 20 years, which has a huge impact on the economy.
By 2020, more than half of all births in the Netherlands will be non-European.
The huge design flaw in the post-modern secular state is that you need a traditional religious society birth rate to sustain it. The Europeans simply don't wish to have children, so they are dying.
In Japan, the birthrate is 1.3. As a result, Japan will lose up to 60 million people over the next 30 years. Because Japan has a very different society than Europe, they refuse to import workers. Instead, they are just shutting down. Japan has already closed 2000 schools, and is closing them down at the rate of 300 per year. Japan is also aging very rapidly. By 2020; one out of every five Japanese will be at least 70 years old. Nobody has any idea about how to run an economy with those demographics.
Europe and Japan, which comprise two of the world's major economic engines, aren't merely in recession, they're shutting down. This will have a huge impact on the world economy, and it is already beginning to happen. Why are the birthrates so low? There is a direct correlation between abandonment of traditional religious society and a drop in birth rate, and Christianity in Europe is becoming irrelevant. The second reason is economic. When the birth rate drops below replacement, the population ages. With fewer working people to support more retired people, it puts a crushing tax burden on the smaller group of working age people. As a result, young people delay marriage and having a family. Once this trend starts, the downward spiral only gets worse. These countries have abandoned all the traditions they formerly held in regards to having families and raising children.
The U.S. birth rate is 2.0, just below replacement. We have an increase in population because of immigration. When broken down by ethnicity, the Anglo birth rate is 1.6 (same as France) while the Hispanic birth rate is 2.7. In the U.S., the baby boomers are starting to retire in massive numbers. This will push the "elder dependency" ratio from 19 to 38 over the next 10 to 15 years. This is not as bad as Europe, but still represents the same kind of trend.
Western civilization seems to have forgotten what every primitive society you need kids to have a healthy society.¾understands Children are huge consumers. Then they grow up to become taxpayers. That's how a society works, but the post-modern secular state seems to have forgotten that If U.S. birth rates of the past 20 to 30 years had been the same as post-World War II, there would be no Social Security or Medicare problems.
The world's most effective birth control device is money As society creates a middle class and women move into the workforce, birth rates drop. Having large families is incompatible with middle class living. The quickest way to drop the birth rate is through rapid economic development. After World War II, the U.S. instituted a $600 tax credit per child. The idea was to enable mom and dad to have four children without being troubled by taxes. This led to a baby boom of 22 million kids, which was a huge consumer market that turned into a huge tax base. However, to match that incentive in today's dollars would cost $12,000 per child.
China and India do not have declining populations. However, in both countries, there is a preference for boys over girls, and we now have the technology to know which is which before they are born. In China and India, many families are aborting the girls. As a result, in each of these countries there are 70 million boys growing up who will never find wives. When left alone, nature produces 103 boys for every 100 girls. In some provinces, however, the ratio is 128 boys to every 100 girls.
The birth rate in Russia is so low that by 2050 their population will be smaller than that of Yemen. Russia has one-sixth of the earth's land surface and much of its oil. You can't control that much area with such a small population. Immediately to the south, you have China with 70 million unmarried men - a real potential nightmare scenario for Russia.
2007-04-18 10:25:56
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answered by smatthies65 4
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you seem to be tricky someone's' human proper to family contributors, and recommend someone is to play god and settle on who must have children and who could no longer and if so what number they ought to have. can we no longer criticize China for having a one toddler in accordance to family contributors coverage (which nonetheless ends up in a large number of deaths or abandonment's contained in the nation-state the position a lady descendant would been seen as no longer as sensible on the farm as a male toddler). the answer is in practise, human beings could understand the foreseeable problems with over inhabitants and their position and household initiatives in that. lets then in basic terms desire that maximum must be responsible adequate to re-act to this knowledge. challenge is maximum persons stay via the "the following and now" philosophy no longer worrying what takes position see you later as they get what they favor even as they favor it. also drugs has more suitable so human beings live longer, having children later in existence and having extra of them; those with ailments are a lot less possibly to die. Dispite this little theory is given in a large number of countries as to what number children to have. I actually have a chum in Africa who has had 13 children; 4 of which dies of ailment and a couple of at toddler beginning. Had a lot of those had lived this man or woman would not were waiting to arise with the money for to keep their family contributors clothed and fed, yet I doubt that this may have stopped them having that volume of youngsters. Brace your self for yet another international warfare over wealth and elements. Ooops already all started in Iraq!
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answered by deamer 4
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Its definitely the people spoiling the planet. There will be an increase from 6.8 to 8billion in a few years. Enjoy.
2007-04-18 13:19:42
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answered by K. Marx iii 5
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Get out of the big city and take a plane ride. Nothing but open spaces in thjis country. Get a better perspective on things!
2007-04-18 09:56:33
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answered by Delphi 4
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Yes. And did you know that certain people are taught to practice family planning and some other people are taught to over populate? Or are given a free pass because of culture or religion? Hmm......
2007-04-18 09:56:45
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answered by DJ 6
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Where is the population explosion of which you speak?
Europe? No
Japan? No
USA? No
Third world countries in Africa, Asia, and Middle East, that can't support their populations? Yeah, that's it...
2007-04-18 09:54:23
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answered by Anonymous
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