The answer is about 1970,
according to research by the World Wildlife Fund.
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Well if they were wrong then,
why should I listen to them now ?
World fear mongering Communist grifters fund is more like it.
Nonsense. This buffoonish poltroon has been wrong on all his predictions. Pelley is just a sycophantic numbskull.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/the-extinction-next-time.php
Uh, nope.
I only knew one pilot that believed the “over population” line. He got hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Thankfully, he wasn’t a captain. I wonder if he “pre-flighted” his bicycle. Clearly not thinking while doing “walk-arounds.”
I don’t disagree with the notion that the earth has a “carrying capacity” for humans. Is it 10 Billion? 50 Billion? 100 Billion? 500 Billion”?
The big question is when do we start worrying about it and do something about it.
I live in the largely unpopulated West. There are not many people between the 100th meridian and the western mountain ranges (Sierras and Cascades). Even fewer if you take out the cities like Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Tucson and Boise.
But we’ve seen huge growth here in the Inland Northwest and it’s the biggest complaint people have — too many damn people moving in and ruining it.
Hey, the “We will all be dead in 12 years” is a dud. So now drag this out. When it comes to fear mongering, they are endlessly creative.
They are actually quoting Paul Ehrlich as an authority. *facepalm*
With the terraforming capabilities we’d inherently have as the population grows, we could easily sustain a trillion people on earth (think of it basically being transformed into a multi-level giant space station, with large spaces for wildlife, agriculture, etc. with nuclear fission/fusion power). The people spouting about a “sustainable” population smaller than what we have today have absolutely no imagination and are stuck in a Malthusian mindset that has proved ludicrously wrong for centuries running.
so ALL HUMANS MUST DIE
Don’t worry, the nukes are coming.
Tell that to the deer, raccoons, foxes, and coyotes that routinely wander my subdivision, even though we border a large forested area. After we installed security cameras, it was shocking to see all of the animals that come and go in our neighborhood every night. They’ve obviously decided that it’s easier to find food here than to forage the natural way. They have plenty of natural territory to themselves; they’ve just figured out that humans provide easier options for finding food, especially in winter.
We had the shocking and frightening news last week that the northern hemisphere is losing two minutes of sunlight every day, and if this crisis continues, we will be in total darkness by June or July. Frightening new information has surfaced from Daylight Change Research. The data indicates drastic changes to the environment that have already started. Many species of birds, millions of individual birds have left the northern hemisphere. The impact of the loss of these birds is unimaginable. Insect life has been severely affected. Most can no longer be observed. Large mammals have been observed lying in a state of near death torpor in their dens. Crop production has fallen to dangerously low levels, and the models and the research predict famine in the very near future. In addition, computer models did not project this, but actual eyewitness observation has shown that most, if not all, leaves have fallen off all trees in the researcher’s hometown. Now, these and other effects of the loss of daylight demand our immediate attention if we are to prevent a climate catastrophe. Remember, total darkness and everything that would result from it by June or July if we cannot enact policies now that change this leakage.
Human population is on schedule to peak around middle of this century and then beginning to decline and back down to current levels by 2100.
We are surrounded by a bunch of chicken littles.
Other than this hit piece, the number most rational people use is 40 billion - baring no further advances in agriculture: farming, ranching or fishing.
Well, we could turn half the world’s population of humans into Soylent Green, and we would be safe again.
But, we would be safe only if the half that’s turned into soylent green are all leftists: communists, liberals, progr3essives, democrats, government-dependents and the lazy.
Will the leftists agree to go away willingly to save the planet and solve the extinction problems?
The elites seem to only judge by what they see, and most of them live in large, metropolitan areas. When are big cities not crowded? Isn’t that the norm for that type of location?
Meanwhile, it’s another day of extremely loud explosions at the beaver dam at the spring end of the lake here. The dam-buster guy seems to be using more explosives every day he had to shoot at them. Apparently there is no lack of busy beavers in this area.
Please you can take every human alive and out then 4 to a 1200 sq fr home on a suburban lot and not need more land mass than the sw USA…
If this isn’t a call to blast all libtards off to the moon as their new utopia then I don’t know what is
I hope it is cockroaches, mosquitoes, and fire ants.