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originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
a reply to: Jay-morris
Thamks for backing me up with your 2 responses above... saves me the time to do it right now.
originally posted by: Jay-morris
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
originally posted by: amazing
There is plenty of land on earth for everyone to live.
There is plenty of power for everyone. Solar
There is plenty of water for everyone. The sea/desalinization plants.
There is plenty of food. Start looking up how much food the world throws away daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.
Population. There are several countries with an aging population. In several decades, they will have population decline.
Even if the earth's population doubled to 14 Billion in a few years, we would still have plenty of land, power, water, food for everyone.
There is no shortage of resources.
This is where you're wrong.
Where is the resource coming from to keep 14 billion people happy??
But what do you need to keep them happy? Education can be virtually free with the internet. Housing/warmth/cooling We can do that with solar power. Food and water. We have enough of that for trillions of people. Distractions TV/Netflix/cheap smart phones. Opportunity. There is always hope and opportunity for advancement in the world.
I don't see where I'm wrong. Give me an example.
We don't have enough water for Trillions of people... where did you get that from? Must be from some do-gooders website or some Leftie newspaper
LOL yes we do, you ever here of the "Ocean" or the Polar ice caps, or glaciers or all the lakes and rivers and streams and ponds we have. we literally covered in water, here on earth.
Not sure how using logic would cause you to be a 'Leftist" or some "do gooder'
Don't we all want to do good? Or are you in charge of some evil empire. LOL
So, have you been ignoring scientists saying shortage of clean drinking water is going to become a major global problem?
Even now, 2 million people die every year drinking unsafe water. Yes, our planet does contain roughly a billion trillion litres of water, but most of that is not safe to drink.
I think 96% of water on earth is salt water. What is left, most of that is locked away in ice caps and glaciers. The rest trapped in soil.
Scientists have been talking about this for ages . Look it up yourself.
originally posted by: Jay-morris
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: Jay-morris
originally posted by: amazing
There is plenty of land on earth for everyone to live.
There is plenty of power for everyone. Solar
There is plenty of water for everyone. The sea/desalinization plants.
There is plenty of food. Start looking up how much food the world throws away daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.
Population. There are several countries with an aging population. In several decades, they will have population decline.
Even if the earth's population doubled to 14 Billion in a few years, we would still have plenty of land, power, water, food for everyone.
There is no shortage of resources.
Well, if we do mot get on top of the plastics pollution going into the sea, then you can forget about the sea as a drinking water source.
And let's not forget that scientists believe if we do not sort this out before 2050, then we could have fishless oceans, so there goes a food source for billions of people.
And let's not forget that half the oxygen we all breath comes from our oceans
All this is just one of many problems we face.
easily solves. More recycling, creating products out of biodegradable materials, harsher penalties for polluters, Scale up waste management technologies, more renewable energy, Go green whenever we can. Again, we have most of that technology and solutions in place now, we just aren't using them. it's not a problem unless we do nothing about it.
That is easier said than done! Not really happening at the moment, yes, retailers have started to change things, but it is not enough!
Companies use products that are the most cost effective, hence the reason they use plastic. The sad fact of the matter is money is more important to these companies, more important than the disgusting world they are making for their children.
At the moment, mote than 8 million tons of plastic ends up in the sea every year, and in the north Pacific, there is an area bigger than turkey made mostly of plastic.
And let's not forget you now find plastic in every level of the ocean food chain, hence the reason why toxic plastic is turning up in our drinking water and food.
Some scientists even believe we cannot reverse this problem now.
So it is not as easy as you think to sort this problem out.
You have a very negative view of life.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: Jay-morris
Dissolve corporations into syndicates and let the brains come back to solve problems. The depressed corporate slaveforce of silent resignations has to be transformed into a capable workforce again.
There is no shareholder left to hold any shares on the poisoned planet of our futures past.
originally posted by: testingtesting
a reply to: Jay-morris
My best mate is a professor in Leeds and he has been to the north pole and Antarctica doing science and he tells me we are too late to fix it all.
Him and his wife have even decided to not have kids, he says it is not fair to bring them into the world with what will happen in the future.
originally posted by: anotherside
We have vertical farming now. If rooftops and private yards were encouraged to farm and sell at coops and farmers markets we would survive a high population.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: anotherside
We have vertical farming now. If rooftops and private yards were encouraged to farm and sell at coops and farmers markets we would survive a high population.
How about we let people grow food in their front yards.
How did it ever come about that we have to have pristine lawns of grass - - that are basically useless?
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
www.theguardian.com...
The above article (from 2013) needs to be read and shared everywhere so people can get it into their heads which way the planet is heading and how quickly or planet Earth is Fucxxx... excuse my language.
So much in the article to make you go... damn!
Population rise and the consumption which comes with it, is going to be the biggest problem. i'll just paste these figures here and you'll see what is going to happen in 100 years.
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originally posted by: jimmyx
it's all about the money, always has been, always will be...that's the problem now....the future will be worse...don't think so?.....the billionaires are licking their collective chops to profit off of global shortages.....the people with assets will have the basic needs, the poorest in the world will be drinking contaminated water, and eating spoiled/diseased food.
they are already "training" for it on a smaller scale, nobody pays that much attention to it now.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: anotherside
We have vertical farming now. If rooftops and private yards were encouraged to farm and sell at coops and farmers markets we would survive a high population.
How about we let people grow food in their front yards.
How did it ever come about that we have to have pristine lawns of grass - - that are basically useless?