Overpopulation. Resources running out. What do we do about these things?
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On the subject of sustainable resources, 98.5 per cent of Norway's electricity is generated using wind or water.
That's because Norway uses its wealth from exporting its natural resources to fund development of its transport infrastructure, hospitals and health care -- and its vast clean energy facilities.
Worryingly, at a recent energy conference hosted by German carmaker Audi, it held up Norway and China as the best and worst examples for CO2 emissions from coal fired power stations. According to Audi's data, just 1.5 per cent of Norway's energy comes from coal fired power staions, compared to 77 per cent for China.
That's because Norway uses its wealth from exporting its natural resources to fund development of its transport infrastructure, hospitals and health care -- and its vast clean energy facilities.
Worryingly, at a recent energy conference hosted by German carmaker Audi, it held up Norway and China as the best and worst examples for CO2 emissions from coal fired power stations. According to Audi's data, just 1.5 per cent of Norway's energy comes from coal fired power staions, compared to 77 per cent for China.
I'm very glad this topic came up as I've been thinking about this for quite a while now. The answer is quite simple. Anyone who attends or watches professional wrestling gets singled out for what I like to call "Expedited Natural Selection". I'm considering adding Larry The Cable Guy fans and televangelists to that list as well. Anyone got other suggestions?
this is going to make me sound like a prick but what if we had a test at the end of year 12 to determine how an individual will contribute to society,if the person turns out to be a dick (like most people i know) then they die, if they don't then they live, also kill anyone who has a life sentence, they aren't going to do anything with their lives if they're stuck in a prison cell...
WAR!!!
nothing to complicated just countries saying " Your going down you dirty sonnafa *****!"
U.S. and Russia gangs up on china while Germany and Britain take out the french and Pakistan and India just kill each other and Israel makes a wal mart parking lot out of most of the middle east.
that'll make one hell of a documentary/ video game.
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Or we colonize Mars.
nothing to complicated just countries saying " Your going down you dirty sonnafa *****!"
U.S. and Russia gangs up on china while Germany and Britain take out the french and Pakistan and India just kill each other and Israel makes a wal mart parking lot out of most of the middle east.
that'll make one hell of a documentary/ video game.
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Or we colonize Mars.
Murder coupons.
Everyone gets to commit one free murder. So long as some people die before they can cash that in we won't have to deal with extinction.
Plus, people will be a lot nicer to each other.
"I wonder if that guys cashed in his murder yet? Better not be a douche and take that chance."
Everyone gets to commit one free murder. So long as some people die before they can cash that in we won't have to deal with extinction.
Plus, people will be a lot nicer to each other.
"I wonder if that guys cashed in his murder yet? Better not be a douche and take that chance."
Encourage adoption. Government can put a bit more money into orphanages, so they can advertise a bit better. Sure, its not a long term solution, but I feel that if adoption were encouraged more, there'd be a bit lower birth rate (not by much, but still noticeable), and maybe a few less people on the streets.
How to deal with it on a large scale... Unfortunately, medicine is here to stay, which has increased human lifespan greatly. Medicine has also greatly decreased the death of children, meaning that they all grow up and consume resources.
I think really, the only way we can deal with this besides war, self imposed genocides, or restriction of human rights is technology. If we run out of a resource, we'll have to use something else to replace it, and hopefully, technology will be able to do that
How to deal with it on a large scale... Unfortunately, medicine is here to stay, which has increased human lifespan greatly. Medicine has also greatly decreased the death of children, meaning that they all grow up and consume resources.
I think really, the only way we can deal with this besides war, self imposed genocides, or restriction of human rights is technology. If we run out of a resource, we'll have to use something else to replace it, and hopefully, technology will be able to do that
Wait, What?CrazyCapnMorgan said:
How is that going to help, at all?
Religion has nothing to do with overpopulation....
Anything we do to limit population growth will probably be fairly heartless. Maybe limit couples to 2 children (effectively just replacing themselves), triplets would be an exception.
The many people that are the baby boomers are about to die.lucky_sharm said:
Anywho it's simple we limit child per couple to one int heir lifetime for 10 years.
To make it worse, researchers are developing clone technology and anti aging drugs.
We need to build an enormous metropolis space station where people can live.
Kinda like these:
We need to build an enormous metropolis space station where people can live.
Kinda like these:
This isn't an issue, when resources are scarce the population (this applies to all species) will struggle (war) over the resources in their habitat (in this case earth), as the organisms kill each other and some starve organisms lower on the food chain will increase in population. If this ever occurs in my lifetime, (it won't) the best thing to do as an individual is to abandon the state, escape control and food rationing, if you can't survive in the wild then youv'e failed the only test an organism was ever meant to face: survive.