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originally posted by: AnonymousTi
I don't think it is as easy as it sounds. Personally I believe they have far greater technologies like cold fusion kept in secret with the excuse that oh "it is too evasive a technology" or it is "too dangerous, too empowering to the masses". Believe me, these crazy people have an agenda of death and control. After 9/11 I don't think that they will turn their plan around. It is going to get worse, best thing to do is get prepared like Germany and Finland is doing right now...
originally posted by: AnonymousTi
It's just to do with the amount of resources needed to get those solar panels and the amount of agricultural land, over farming. Using the waste as fuel instead of fertilizer... 7 billion people is quite a lot to sustain. Me thinks its much more complicated especially the way the economies are doing.
originally posted by: johnb
a reply to: galien8
well texas is 268,820 sq miles and at 640 acres to sq mile = 437,004,800 acres
population is c. 7,000,000,000 so that would give each person 0.06 of an acre
So lets say average family is 4 that's still less than a quarter acre.
This also assumes all of Texas is farmland - so once you take out mountains, rivers, lakes etc there would be a fair bit less.
originally posted by: johnb
More generally I up till recently worked in recycling including a biogas plant.
Now to get enough 'foodstock' (wastes) to run these plants farmers need to stop growing food and produce vegetation purely for producing power - so food costs go up as there is less being grown.
Seems somehow wrong to me that we in the west grow food to burn/digest while many places in the world are starving.
originally posted by: jellyrev
Settle down Malthus.
Malthus was wrong
The population bomb by Ehrlich was wrong
yet again human innovation will win out. Let markets work. no worries
None of it matter anyways. Once the singularity comes in 15 to 30 years nothing can be predicted. There is no point in predicting the future or what even to do once we have tools of a super sentient ai one that will quickly become smarter than all humans combined.