Right – I don’t see a lot of volunteers rushing to sign on, particularly as some scientists have called for volunteers for a one-way trip; these people will never see their loved ones again.
This will not happen on the moon, which is essentially sterile. If the Moon has not evolved life in 4.5 billion years, we’re probably not going to jump start it ourselves.
Correct. The net human population of the earth increases by a million people every four days. In order just to tread water at ZPG we would have to export 250,000 people per day to another hypothetically inhabitable planet.
Control of human numbers will happen whether we want it to or no. If we flounder on, refusing to limit human procreation voluntarily, nature will take care of the excess for us in coming generations, reducing the human population by means of famine, epidemic disease, and resource wars over the world’s remaining stocks of oil, gas, copper, molybdenum, and all the other rare earth elements so vital to our technological civilization.
Edwin, of course it’s disturbing! We’ve all been raised on the assumption that Earth’s resources will never run out, and that everyone is entitled to have as many children as they want, infinitely into the future.
Buffalo posted a link to a page of population statistics, very interesting. You should read it all. You might notice a strange thing, the last time there was the maxima of a population surge there was a global flood. Only Noah and his family survived. If the same maxima occurs in the next few decades then there will be a conflagration this time, as stated in various prophesies, wiping out the majority of mankind.
What Do 40 Million Lost Lives Mean?
The term “peak oil” is flat-out WRONG. We have not reached that point and we may not reach it for a long time. A very long time.
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**Unlocking vast reserves of shale gas could solve the energy crisis, the jobs crisis, and the deficit. Now, about fracking’s safety ...**False. Do you understand what the term “peak oil” refers to?
There will always be oil, even when gasoline costs $100 per gallon…
Every year 15 million children die of hunger. If you are unconcerned with this, where is your heart?
While I certainly don’t support abortion, I find the above truly offensive. It dehumanizes children by looking at them as little money-making machines rather than human beings.
You have got to be kidding.
The whole idea of bringing out these statistics to support pro-life. I answered the request to support the 30 trillion dollar claim.It’s actually correct. Oil companies recognize it, geologists recognize it, etc. The issue is simply when. The pessimists simply have a early date than the optimists. Furthermore, production isn’t the only relevant issue. EROEI is very important, and this number is going up as the easy-to-access sources are being used up. That mean more energy resources must be used to obtain the energy, and less energy available for consumption for uses not related to energy production.
It is true that the U.S. is trying to extract energy from various sources. Extracting oil from shale requires a whole lot more energy than driving a well in a desert, which means you need to produce a lot more of it just keep up with one’s energy demands.
The infamous Balkanization of people rears it’s ugly head again. Let’s just divide the parties into the “let’s do nothing crowd” and the “doom-sayer” crowd.
So the pro-life view is to view babies as little economic engines to bail us out of the problems we created?You have got to be kidding.
The problem is when they announce the biggest oil find ever as they did a few months ago. New oil finds just keeps happening.
A growing economy is what is needed, and yes human beings are what do it. Those are the facts. Yes, we kill babies, and yes that is a reason for our economic woes. To call it a bail out is a strange way to put it.