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[Nickbat]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-the-population-timebomb-is-a-myth-2186968.html

No surprises there, then.

[cem_devecioglu]

 :-? :-?

sorry but utter 'dangle berries'

[Nickbat]

:-? :-?

sorry but utter 'dangle berries'

An insightful response, packed with thought-provoking and rational criticism.

Is it any wonder why my interest in OOF General Discussion is waning? 

[cem_devecioglu]

Nickbat , even today 1/3 of human kind is starving..

I hope I wont see the day people start to eat other :-/

world resources are finite but this growing population does not seem to be finite.. 

[Nickbat]

Nickbat , even today 1/3 of human kind is starving..

I hope I wont see the day people start to eat other :-/

world resources are finite but this growing population does not seem to be finite.. 

It may help to read the article:

"French scientists set themselves the goal of discovering whether a global population of 9 billion, the likely peak according to the UN, could readily have access to 3,000 calories a day, even as farms take measures to cut down on the use of fossil fuels and refrain from cutting down more forests: their answer was, you will be thrilled to know, "yes". 

 

[cem_devecioglu]

I'm afraid mathematical rules are certain..

the writer of this article seems to ignore 2 facts..

* resources are finite

* farming areas become useless with chemical industrial waste ..

there is only one certain solution which nasa works on it..  space colonies.. no other way..

hence the reason why they search for water/ice on the moon..

[Nickbat]

I'm afraid mathematical rules are certain..

the writer of this article seems to ignore 2 facts..

* resources are finite

* farming areas become useless with chemical industrial waste ..

there is only one certain solution which nasa works on it..  space colonies.. no other way..

hence the reason why they search for water/ice on the moon..

The writer of this article is, I understand, quoting scientific research.

Space colonies? Spaced-out colonies might be more useful. 

[albitz]

I'm afraid mathematical rules are certain..

the writer of this article seems to ignore 2 facts..

* resources are finite

* farming areas become useless with chemical industrial waste ..

there is only one certain solution which nasa works on it..  space colonies.. no other way..

hence the reason why they search for water/ice on the moon..

But did they check their sparks and fit winter tyres before they commenced on the journey ?

[tidla]

I'm afraid mathematical rules are certain..

the writer of this article seems to ignore 2 facts..

* resources are finite

* farming areas become useless with chemical industrial waste ..

there is only one certain solution which nasa works on it..  space colonies.. no other way..

hence the reason why they search for water/ice on the moon..

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But did they check their sparks and fit winter tyres before they commenced on the journey ?

i thought it was to keep the ruskies busy.

talking of such, havent they got stacks of room with very little people and we have the eu mountain.

more to do with pesky medaling politicians and mismanagement that a lack of possible resources.

[Plomien]

At the end of the day if we continuing to populate the earth resource will run out. The line in the Matrix still rings true about the only other species that acts in the same was is a virus. 8-)

[Banjax]

At the end of the day if we continuing to populate the earth resource will run out. The line in the Matrix still rings true about the only other species that acts in the same was is a virus. 8-)

with shoes.

[Banjax]

when i was born in '69 the population on earth was less than 4bn, now, its nearly 7bn.

It'll be fine tho, just so long as no one needs any oil.

Oh, and I'd look at the increasingly aging population everywhere, people are working to provide for more and more dependents.

I have no doubt that the west will be OK tho....so who cares 

Plenty of room for more in the UK for example, no one has a problem with that do they? 

[Sixstring]

Many years ago I volunteered for some work for the Prince's Trust packing up aid parcels.
The information I heard then  about massive expanses of land that was unuseable due to contamination and failed crops with starving people convinces me there MUST be somebody somewhere that sees sense about all this money going OUT of this country to "help" others that ends up in some dictators pocket, or gets ultimately "sold" to their needy people, and perhaps channels a bit of it to help OUR problems!!

There may not be a population explosion, but "Great" Britain appears to be slowly sinking in more ways than one!!

[Mysteryman]

I know this is general discussion, but there are certain things which do not require discussion. There are too many people in the world. That's the end of any discussion with me.

[Dishevelled Den]

At the end of the day if we continuing to populate the earth resource will run out. The line in the Matrix still rings true about the only other species that acts in the same was is a virus. 8-)

with shoes.

In my experience one finds a much more acceptable class of virus in a nice pair of Tim Little's 6 hole Oxfords.