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Quote by: Morgan_Freeman  But we weren't talking about ducks, were we? We were talking about humans. As I already said, humans are not dumb animals. We have the power to alter our environment. We can control at will the "carrying capacity" of the Earth. |
Does the changing the carrying capacity include destroying our natural environment so far that when the Earth's population hits 10 billion which I would hazard to guess would be in about 2040-2050 we will start to run out of growing land as our cities will be so large and the effect of desertification by that point that they will be so much smaller that even with our rapidly advancing technology we wont be able to keep up with the demand. Also we will be loosing land as sea levels rise. Do you really want to loose what makes our natural wonders such as the forest laden North-Central Rocky mountains (Canada and Northern States area), the Amazon or South-East Asia's jungles due to increased forestation. Also our water resources are very finite hence the reason why water is such a high commodity today. Do you think that because so many people will die because they can't get basic resources means we can't get really over populated then your wrong!
The more humans mean that we drive more animals into endangerment or extinction which means limited biodiversity. Also on a related point when we loose the great forests of our planet do you plan on 'wasting energy' to filter oxygen so we can breathe or try to fit some green anywhere possible like in East Asia where the plant grass in flower pots? What type of life is it to be cramped in?
Also last time I checked people get irritable when squished together so do you plan on using the increased murder rate to keep the population down?
Sorry if my arguement is a bit unorganized but I had to get this out all at once and I have to go.