Gray Champion Predictions

[TnT]

(08-21-2020, 09:58 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(08-21-2020, 06:42 PM)TnT Wrote: I know this seems really old-fashioned, re-warmed Malthusian-ism.  But ... we just have too damn many people on the planet.  Growing the population means that our economic system HAS to be a growth model, not a more sustainable, rational model designed to not overrun the planet's capacity.

COVID is a symptom of our overpopulation.  Lots of bio models behave the same way.  Once exponential growth reaches a certain point, the organism dies off.  This is just the first one of these.  There'll be more.

True enough.  I see global overpopulation as an issue similar to global warming which will someday become an central issue for a crisis or an awakening.  Not yet, though.  Should fusion become real and countries like India, China and Russia start installing scrubbers on the stacks remaining, global overpopulation is apt to make it to the front burner.

The way I see it, AGW is the same thing as overpopulation!  If we weren't so many, we wouldn't have AGW.  In fact, I can't think of a single solitary problem we have in the world today that wouldn't be essentially solved if the population suddenly decreased by, say, 75%.  Perhaps the next pandemic, or one after, might just do the job for us.