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Empty half the Earth of its humans. It's the only way to save the planet
UK Guardian ^ | March 20, 2018 | Kim Stanley Robinson

Posted on 03/21/2018 3:16:49 AM PDT by C19fan

Discussing cities is like talking about the knots in a net: they’re crucial, but they’re only one part of the larger story of the net and what it’s supposed to do. It makes little sense to talk about knots in isolation when it’s the net that matters.

The 100 million city: is 21st century urbanisation out of control?

Cities are part of the system we’ve invented to keep people alive on Earth. People tend to like cities, and have been congregating in them ever since the invention of agriculture, 10,000 or so years ago. That’s why we call it civilisation. This origin story underlines how agriculture made cities possible, by providing enough food to feed a settled crowd on a regular basis. Cities can’t work without farms, nor without watersheds that provide their water. So as central as cities are to modern civilisation, they are only one aspect of a system.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: extinction; genocide; youfirst
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To: C19fan

The deep state cabal types and the illumine do ones always tell the minions what they plan for them from their blood stained ivory Towers of Babel.


21 posted on 03/21/2018 4:09:53 AM PDT by Billyv ( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation!)
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To: al_c

Check your math.


22 posted on 03/21/2018 4:11:08 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: C19fan

Stop sucking resources from responsible people/countries and paying morons to breed like rabbits. Create incentive for those who cant afford kids to get implanted birth control. Instead of incentive to have more kids.

The REAL way to save the planet and nobody has to kill anybody


23 posted on 03/21/2018 4:12:21 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: al_c

It’s about 32 feet between people. A little more than 1000 square feet per person.


24 posted on 03/21/2018 4:14:37 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: RipSawyer

Checked. Apparently things have changed a bit since last time I looked into this. Each person would get a 10m x 10m plot ... but they’d still fit.


25 posted on 03/21/2018 4:15:36 AM PDT by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: C19fan
Empty half the Earth of its humans...The 100 million city: is 21st century [urbanization] out of control?

While the plan and goal are nutz, the identification of the problem is a bulls eye.


26 posted on 03/21/2018 4:17:51 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Richard Axtell

Someone’s been fantasizing over a movie script.

27 posted on 03/21/2018 4:18:46 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: C210N

That is BS. Democrat Mayors didn’t ruin that city. Free Trade ruined that city.


28 posted on 03/21/2018 4:19:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: C19fan

People who believe in reducing the earth population never lead by example.

People are hard to get rid of, and there’s something just a little bit wrong about trying to do it.


29 posted on 03/21/2018 4:22:19 AM PDT by lurk
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To: C19fan

Al Gore and his global famine initiative is the answer!


30 posted on 03/21/2018 4:29:50 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: C19fan

Al Gore and his global famine initiative is the answer!


31 posted on 03/21/2018 4:29:50 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: Gen.Blather

The author has no idea why cities formed. They were close to the hub of business,

...

Usually at a sea port or navigable river.


32 posted on 03/21/2018 4:32:06 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: bubman

“”The entire population of the earth can fit in Texas with about 1,000 feet between each person. Just sayin’”

Leave Texas out of this. We don’t want’em....


33 posted on 03/21/2018 4:38:26 AM PDT by snoringbear (W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: C19fan

You first


34 posted on 03/21/2018 4:43:05 AM PDT by chiller (If liberals didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.)
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To: LegendHasIt

Just another idiot with a distorted view of her own value to society. The little things she says and does loom largest in her own mind. She’s not alone though, because popular culture allows for the mediocre-at-best to feel larger than life and when it comes down to it, we’re not going to win any wars out there or right here at home unless basic training eventually includes regiments of deprogramming for the 21st century.


35 posted on 03/21/2018 4:50:49 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: KarlInOhio; RipSawyer; al_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=043Vw6NEhwI
Overpopulation is a Myth!


36 posted on 03/21/2018 4:52:20 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: C19fan
If you think the world is overpopulated....have a flat tire.

Amazing how empty the place gets.

37 posted on 03/21/2018 5:01:46 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: C19fan

I am all for this, Kim Stanley Robinson.

You and your cohorts go first to set an example for the rest of us, and we will be right along after you.

Ahh. She assumed it would be the OTHER half that would off themselves to save the earth so she and her cohorts could enjoy it.

Silly me.


38 posted on 03/21/2018 5:03:22 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: C19fan

Just a personal observation but whenever I read the newspapers through the years I always noticed more obituaries than birth notices.


39 posted on 03/21/2018 5:08:23 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: C19fan

Radical leftists who write for the guardian first.


40 posted on 03/21/2018 5:08:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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