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Originally Posted by 1957split  ....If we don’t start controlling the population they’ll be no wildlife in Britain [or the world], the human race can’t share, profit comes first. Do you believe they’ll save a field or rain forest if people need the land for food or somewhere to live.
Unless there’s control, we’re all doomed [but the animals will go first unless of course there edible  ].
Scary, but as the worlds population grows the faster we'll out grow the planet and it's resources 
Man = Problem. More man = More problem. |
You've hit the crux of the problem. There are simply too many people on this planet.
Go back several hundred years, and there would only be a fraction of the numbers of people alive today. Go back several thousand years, and populations would have been still less.
Advances in technology have allowed the population explosion, to the extent that (if we accept global warming is a reality) the planet can no longer cope with our artificially sustained numbers.
I'm afraid I cannot see any viable way forward in the long term, other than strict control of populations.
People will not readily accept reductions in lifestyle, so this will ultimately only be achieved by draconian measures at governmental levels by taxation or whatever.
Before we reach that stage though, the various energy providers will have made themselves umpteen billions of pounds, by increasing energy costs on the premise that fuels are running out, or renewable energy costs more, or a million and one other excuses that we, - as the average Joe Bloggs, will have to put up with, because we cannot live without our ready supply of energy. (Be it originating from gas, electricity, oil, coal, nuclear, renewable, or whatever).
The world will become even more a place of wide variation between the "have's" and "have not's"
I'm absolutely conviced that world wide warfare will occur as a result of this problem at some time in the future, as nations will defend their right to carry on regardless. As I've already said elsewhere, does anyone seriously think they would get any sensible response from countries such a China, (or America for that matter), if they had to drastically cut their energy consumption.
Would such countries sit back and accept things? Do you think it would be beyond their thinking to start invading other countries to plunder resources?
I have no answers, other than being certain of one fact - nowadays, there are far too many people requiring far too many resources, from the finite supplies available on this planet.
Regards
Mike.