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Post by bills on Jan 20, 2020 16:13:37 GMT
To paraphrase Billy Connolly, we each need to eat just one person, and all of the problems are solved.
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Post by peterboat on Jan 20, 2020 16:14:05 GMT
Most of us are already in steel coffins...............................
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Post by lollygagger on Jan 20, 2020 16:34:48 GMT
The aim of wars in the future will be to wipe out as many civilians as possible. People are such a drain on resources.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 16:37:17 GMT
Over-population is the issue, but just how it gets resolved is a lottery that has ever-changing odds. Global pandemic is my personal favourite.
Also, I sometimes wonder how long it will be before an 'exit' pill is available on request through the NHS. Surely its only a matter of time.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 16:43:33 GMT
In evolution terms it seems likely it would be a virus or bacteria of some sort.
Plants have evolved to protect themselves from herbivores using mechanical means such as spikes. If they evolved to become fatally poisonous to herbivores they could quite rapidly take over the entire planet.
It would be quite an interesting problem for humans to deal with it all the previously edible plants became poisonous or transmitted diseases.
If you pick a hawthorn branch and look at the spikes on it you have to wonder how the plant knew what to do...
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 20, 2020 18:28:10 GMT
Well, when I studied Geology it was 4 ice ages. I think the New 'Scientist' have embellished the facts somewhat. Here's a cheerful video: but years ago a climate change scientist told me they wernt having children because they wouldnt have a future! Looks like they were right Probably they just counted the cost of having kids and saw what teenagers are like. I really don't believe people would deny children/other humans the right to exist "because of climate change".
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 20, 2020 18:29:14 GMT
Well, when I studied Geology it was 4 ice ages. I think the New 'Scientist' have embellished the facts somewhat. Here's a cheerful video: The weather is all wrong and getting worse we had another of those once in a 10 year floods 12 years after the last! Definitely getting worse, then - 2 years late!!
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 20, 2020 18:32:40 GMT
exactly. and quite apart from the misery they may have to inherit, another child just adds to the global population, and thereby worsens the situation unless he/she grows up to be a big mover and shaker in the environmental campaign. Q. "Why do you have 15 children?" A: "I was hoping one of them would be like Greta Thunberg." Baby number TWENTY-TWO for Britainβs biggest family! Supermum Sue Radford, 44, is pregnant again a year after declaring she would stop Sue Radford, 44, and Noel, 48, posted YouTube clip Sunday showing ultrasound She said: 'We're coming up to 15 weeks and will soon be able to find out gender' Couple from Lancashire said after their last child in 2018 there would be no more Mrs Radford said her child is due in April and disclosed she would like a little boy
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 20, 2020 18:34:06 GMT
and quite apart from the misery they may have to inherit I expect you'll be long gone by the time they've grown up.
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Post by peterboat on Jan 20, 2020 18:48:02 GMT
but years ago a climate change scientist told me they wernt having children because they wouldnt have a future! Looks like they were right Probably they just counted the cost of having kids and saw what teenagers are like. I really don't believe people would deny children/other humans the right to exist "because of climate change". Maybe they are cleverer and kinder than you? only a fool would bring more children into a world if you knew they might never live to enjoy it or the future was so poor that they might suffer all their life
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 18:54:13 GMT
The best thing would be to ban worthless idiots from reproducing.
Allow the more intelligent types to do so in order to provide clever people who can help sort out all the shit.
I'm a believer in humans ability to adapt to situations so I don't think it's all terrible but a good move would be to stop the idiots. No idea how to do that though.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 20, 2020 19:15:23 GMT
Probably they just counted the cost of having kids and saw what teenagers are like. I really don't believe people would deny children/other humans the right to exist "because of climate change". Maybe they are cleverer and kinder than you? only a fool would bring more children into a world if you knew they might never live to enjoy it or the future was so poor that they might suffer all their life This attitude/concept doesn't seem to bother those living in 'The Third World' where they are already subject to poverty. And the Third World citizens seem to have no qualms about moving to the UK, despite the overpopulation that already exists there. If people in the UK have less children, the vacuum will simply be filled. Nature abhors a vacuum. To me, perhaps the solution is to limit families to 4 children (?). Anyway, those living in London think: "The World is overcrowded!", those living in Jasper, Alberta are thinking: "Hey, where is everybody?!!" There is still plenty of surface on this planet to support a few billion more. And when the box begins to fill with rats you will soon see them starting to bite and scratch the others. The fight for survival, says The Selfish Gene. Shellfish gene in the case of oysters.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 20, 2020 19:29:11 GMT
Allow the more intelligent types to do so in order to provide clever people who can help sort out all the shit. The thing is with this, is that clever people don't want to take the garbage out or iron shirts or do any other dirty work. (not saying this duck-look-a-like is intelligent, but it serves for my point). Clever people will have to come up with more and more fiendish schemes to get others to do the chores, like an arms race. They may eventually succumb and drown in a sea of filth of their own making.
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Post by JohnV on Jan 20, 2020 20:29:34 GMT
Allow the more intelligent types to do so in order to provide clever people who can help sort out all the shit. Clever people will have to come up with more and more fiendish schemes to get others to do the chores, like an arms race. They may eventually succumb and drown in a sea of filth of their own making. shades of Golgafrincham ?
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 20, 2020 20:33:45 GMT
Clever people will have to come up with more and more fiendish schemes to get others to do the chores, like an arms race. They may eventually succumb and drown in a sea of filth of their own making. shades of Golgafrincham ? "Golgafrincham was a planet, once home to the Great Circling Poets of Arium. The descendants of these poets made up tales of impending doom about the planet. The tales varied; some said it was going to crash into the sun, or the moon was going to crash into the planet. Others said the planet was to be invaded by twelve-foot piranha bees and still others said it was in danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star-goat. These tales of impending doom allowed the Golgafrinchans to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population. The story was that they would build three Ark ships. Into the A ship would go all the leaders, scientists and other high achievers. The C ship would contain all the people who made things and did things, and the B Ark would hold everyone else, such as hairdressers and telephone sanitisers. They sent the B ship off first, but of course, the other two-thirds of the population stayed on the planet and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone."
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