More gaia worship

Originally posted by twhitehead
If you honestly think that the earth is anywhere near reaching its maximum sustainable human population then you haven't traveled very much, probably haven't looked at an atlas or even watched tv too much. There are vast areas of the earths land surface still un-cultivated and don't forget that the sea covers more surface than land. My home country of Zam ...[text shortened]... ng methods. If the methods used in the US were imported that figure would rise significantly.

I've traveled and seen the exact opposite.

You seem to be blinded by material goods in the States. They come at quite a high price from a global perspective.

Originally posted by Merk
Really, where are we seeing Americans flee to? Russias and Europes populations are certainly not experienceing explosive growth? The major growth areas seems to be fairly limited.

Is America out of resources? Africa? Asia?

I don't know about your neighborhood, but in mine we grow plenty of food and plenty of trees.

My neighborhood east of Dallas grew plenty of Mexicans!

Originally posted by mdhall
Given your inability to comprehend simple mathematical realities, there's not much discussion available.

In 2000 years we have grown from 300 million to 6 billion (in 1999).

Can you calculate that growth rate?

I've heard we will plateau around 9 billion.

(plus the Mexicans in East Texas.)

edit. Only Africa has a signif. pop growth rate anymore of the continents. Must be all that Zimbabwean free range to expand in...

edit. Sorry...Zambian!

Originally posted by spruce112358
I've heard we will plateau around 9 billion.

(plus the Mexicans in East Texas.)

edit. Only Africa has a signif. pop growth rate anymore of the continents. Must be all that Zimbabwean free range to expand in...

edit. Sorry...Zambian!

I thought the Africans were dying of AIDS. What do you mean they have the greatest population increase?!

Interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Barry Walters, an obstetrics professor with the government-funded University of Western Australia proposes that parents who have more than two children should be charged a lifelong climate change tax to offset the effect of their extra greenhouse gas. I propose that those who want to thin the human population start with themselves. Discuss.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdHCdZZ8MLEj4aBjDsvAsEp5bStA

🙂 I love these posts... keep um coming. Folks, like this doctor, are just being silly. Didn't Russia just have a mandatory day of sex to increase their population?