Earth at 8 billion: Consumption not crowd is key to climate

Associated Press ^ | November 15, 2022 | Seth Borenstein

[frogjerk]

Climate and population is a touchy subject for scientists and officials.

You wouldn't think this is the case by watching anything or listening to the radio. It's all they talk about.

[alstewartfan]

Right. They have no clue how many people there are. But we are all 98.6 degree radiators causing the planet to boil!

[Frank Drebin]

There is room on this planet for billions and billions more and plenty of resources and arable land for all.

The only places that are crowded and polluted are the filthy, corrupt, "centers of culture and refinement" sprinkled around our planet, also known as cities. Humanity doesn't need population limits, the cities do.

[Olog-hai]

What a “scientist” this guy is.

[Theoria]

South/Latin America will breed the US into bankruptcy. The flood of population moves north every day. The great repopulating of Europe is also ongoing.

[blackdog]

Eugene Levy’s long lost fat slob brother.

[HamiltonJay]

If you took the entire worlds population and put them 4 to a house with nice yard, not huge but nice. the land area requirements of the entire worlds population wouldn’t be much more than TEXAS and maybe 1 or two other SW states.

Now obviously logistics of doing that are impossible, but “Crowding” has never been a real threat, at least not globally.

[I want the USA back]

So, they will take money from successful, productive countries and give it to lazy failure countries.

[NY Attitude]

As it was written on the now defunct Georgia Guide Stones.

[FarCenter]

>>Want 50% less emissions, built 200 powerplants and open Yuca mountain to long term waste.

Current US generation capacity is about 12,000,000 megawatts.

A standard nuclear plant is about 1000 megawatts.

So you need a lot more than 200.

Not saying it isn’t a good idea. It’s just that you need a lot more nuclear plants, especially if you use electricity for heating and transportation in the future.

[simpson96]

“We do have a population problem and we do have a population issue,” said Vanessa Perez-Cicera, director of the Global Economics Center at the World Resources Institute. “But I think most importantly, we have an overconsumption issue.” And because of that the 8 billionth child born will “not have what we had ... because there’s not enough resources,”

Let me guess...she knows just the things for everyone ELSE to do, just not her.

[Vaduz]

Yes the money trail gets longer

[joma89]

This article has reminded me to buy more steak.

[Revel]

I here I though at least a billion Russians had been killed in the Ukraine.

[jonrick46]

"Fuel shortages, food shortages, restricted medical care, doctor assisted suicide, abortion on demand, destroy the family, mutilate and molest your children, no borders, empty prisons, streets flooded with deadly drugs, silence religious expression, destroy our freedoms and our Constitutional Republic,..... (what'd'I miss?")

[nascarnation]

I had an interesting conversation with a former Air Force pilot who now does international runs to Asia for FedEx. Asked him which place is the worst to fly into? He said anywhere in India, you smell the sh*t as soon as you break below 10,000 feet.

[Dat]

Here is my proposal: they choose the population number, I choose who lives.

See if they like them apples.

[DennisR]

Yeah - and we all know how easy it is to model water vapor. /s