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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Far more than half the Earth isn’t even populated. Stupid liberals.
Oh you don't want to?
Then you can try to kill me if you like.
Come at me. Pay no attention to my LadySmith. Guns are useless against attackers. Isn't that another meme you and your have been pushing? So tally ho and all the rot.
Oh, you don't want to do that either?
I see.
Then why don't you go write some substandard fiction.
Off with you now.
Wimp.
Who ever wrote this should empty him/herself first
Well so far Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Turkey already tried that.
Apparently, so are manners. But keep reading ... I corrected the info that was based on an old article. Things have changed.
Again ... keep reading. I corrected the original post.
A bizarre idea, granted...but he's not arguing for genocide (in this article, at least).
I will wait for the movie and its obligatory, CGI-generated tsunami, lol!
I’m betting if the liberals would be removed from Earth, the problem would cease. Think about it.
Robinson is a good SiFi writer if you can get around his left wing bias. I pretend that I’m a 50 years old sociology professor and enjoy his stuff.
If cities were actually greener than the suburbs they would be cheaper to live there. The truth is the greenest and happiest living occurs in the green countryside. Soon self driving cars and aircraft, high speed rural internet, online shopping and entertainment, and robotic farming will make living next to nature and voting conservative the next big in-thing.
The first terrorist nuke or 3-D printed virus that takes out a city is not just the end of communal city living, but also the end of voting Democrat.
This ain’t that kind of movie bro...
“Overpopulation is a Myth!”
It is. The fewer the “population”, the easier it is for the elite to control.
THAT is the true motivation behind the “over population” B.S.
Possible reasons:
1. Reporting Bias (i.e., newspapers believe deaths - usually of people with at least half-way interesting bios, incl. military service, hobbies, etc. - are more newsworthy than the births of little babies about which there is hardly anything more to cite than weight and gender).
2. Observational Bias (i.e., you - personally - happen to be more "keyed" to obituaries than birth announcements).
Regards,
So...if you eliminate ALL lefty/LIBs, do you think most sane people would ignore this proto - fascist lunacy?
What the left doesn’t understand is that they are surplus population too. The illumined ones only need enough slave labor to supply pedo and agri needs.
Wich half?
Texas is the new frontier, leftists plan to take over by bringing their coastal dollars and taking over the cities. Then like Colorado, everyone loses rights in every referendum because the cities rule.
Malthus was right - we all starved to death almost a hundred years ago... AND Kim Stanley Robinson’s a fool - AND he’s late to the stupid party.
http://cgge.aag.org/PopulationandNaturalResources1e/CF_PopNatRes_Jan10/CF_PopNatRes_Jan108.html
fm link:
“Thomas Robert Malthus was the first economist to propose a systematic theory of population. He articulated his views regarding population in his famous book, Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), for which he collected empirical data to support his thesis. Malthus had the second edition of his book published in 1803.”
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