CaptBubba
Not dumb enough fora custom title...so he thought.
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It will work itself out, it allways has. Some disease or war or famine will come and take out 1/3 the population. Because we have such concentrated centers of population and are within a day's travel by airplane, 40 cities could be exposed before the first person checks into the emergency room. There are other, slower diseases too, like HIV. Think about the plauges, which we now know we fairly simple can be cured with a single shot of antibiotics. It wouldn't have to be some exotic disease either, something like the flu could mutate and suddleny become fatal in 10% of all cases.
Don't try to blame population growth on the developed contries. I think the numbers fo the US show that the population would actually be decreasing if it weren't for the constant flow of both legal and illegal immigrants. I'm pretty sure the numbers for Europian nations are similar.
Originally posted by Mr.PD I still say there are too many people on this planet. Don't make me go back to the buffalo analogy. |
It will work itself out, it allways has. Some disease or war or famine will come and take out 1/3 the population. Because we have such concentrated centers of population and are within a day's travel by airplane, 40 cities could be exposed before the first person checks into the emergency room. There are other, slower diseases too, like HIV. Think about the plauges, which we now know we fairly simple can be cured with a single shot of antibiotics. It wouldn't have to be some exotic disease either, something like the flu could mutate and suddleny become fatal in 10% of all cases.
Don't try to blame population growth on the developed contries. I think the numbers fo the US show that the population would actually be decreasing if it weren't for the constant flow of both legal and illegal immigrants. I'm pretty sure the numbers for Europian nations are similar.