World food.
mellman01
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Right there are 2 camps that i know of when it comes to "saving the planet", god I hate that term, sorry I digress.
right those are the, "we can handle 9 billion easy as technology will save the day" and in the other camp simply says that there are to many people not but enough planet, (this is the one I tend to go for as it's simple like me!)
Russia has just stop exporting grain for the second time and the US is in a spot of trouble in this area, now they say food prices will start to rocket up as there isn't enough to go round, also the bees are dying as we are pumping to many chemicals on the crops we already grow, GM is only going to make things worse as GM is mostly designed to be tolerant to larger doses of pesticides, ironic that as the very companies that are into GM also make them, so bye bye bees I guess!.
So how many more disasters will it take before some people understand the Earth is highly over populated and has been for some time now. Also we must get away from the totally arrogant attitude that we know better than mother nature and can even redress global warming, no we can't it will never happen this planet is a bit like a dog with a flea on it's back one shake and were gone, it's a simple as that, we don't own this planet we are only lodgers.
Oh and if you really want to see how it could end up like go on U Tube and look for silent running it's a good film that was way ahead of it's time although a little hippy'ish man!.
right those are the, "we can handle 9 billion easy as technology will save the day" and in the other camp simply says that there are to many people not but enough planet, (this is the one I tend to go for as it's simple like me!)
Russia has just stop exporting grain for the second time and the US is in a spot of trouble in this area, now they say food prices will start to rocket up as there isn't enough to go round, also the bees are dying as we are pumping to many chemicals on the crops we already grow, GM is only going to make things worse as GM is mostly designed to be tolerant to larger doses of pesticides, ironic that as the very companies that are into GM also make them, so bye bye bees I guess!.
So how many more disasters will it take before some people understand the Earth is highly over populated and has been for some time now. Also we must get away from the totally arrogant attitude that we know better than mother nature and can even redress global warming, no we can't it will never happen this planet is a bit like a dog with a flea on it's back one shake and were gone, it's a simple as that, we don't own this planet we are only lodgers.
Oh and if you really want to see how it could end up like go on U Tube and look for silent running it's a good film that was way ahead of it's time although a little hippy'ish man!.
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Afternoon young man.........
And your solution is????????
Maybe natural selection???
Lets stop giving medication to the ill.......
Strongest survive.............
Thats the way the rest of the creatures on the earth survive.....
ROb x
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stop paying benefits to parents of more than 2 kids,simples!in the uk i mean. |In fact heres an idea, at child no 3 the benfit goes down so to disencourage having more than 2.
Its obsence that half the world is obese and eats too much and the other half are starving to death.0 -
I must say I love this planet but it is just so over populated it's mad, yet some still shout for even more mouths to feed, oneday is right we seem to feed and nurture the feckless who in turn produce more feckless.
The ones who will suffer the most will be the very people the pro more people brigade champion ie the poor of the third world, seems to me we always rely on technology to help out but the more we do the farther away we get from the cure and that's sustainability, we pump oil derived fertiliser on our fields and oil derived pesticides and this will have to increase as it is, our countryside although green in the summer is from a small animals eye view a monochrome desert and still people wonder why all other species are dying out, we spend millions on saving animals to such an extent it's big business but the root cause is pressure from the so called intelligent ape ie man, it's the main cause yet no one seems bothered or has the guts to say so.
We are now in the middle of a mass extinction event human driven, sooner or later something has got to give, it wont be a large rock from space or supernova that gets us, maybe not even the H bomb it will be an eco system collapse, we are eroding the very foundations our species sits on and arrogantly think we can design new machines to get round the little problem, all the battery cars and wind turbines wont do anything other than give a few more years before it all goes into flux, maybe we humans should for once face facts that were to clever for our own good.0 -
Maybe everyone has been eaten by aliens or wiped out by some orrible natural disaster and that's the reason it so god dammed dead on here!?. well if it the reason, then I will be transmitting on 27.270 in the AM band at 14.00hrs each day, if anyone hears me or reads this I can provide food and shelter for you.
Doctor Robert Shepard signing off.
Rite what film did that last bit come from then pop pickers!!??.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :roll:0 -
Haven't got a clue about the film, Mell, haven't watched one in 30 odd years.
But please rant on.............I agree with you, just haven't got the energy to say so!
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Mell
You are so right..........this world is crazy
Trish xx0
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