Posted on 01/11/2025 1:49:16 PM PST by ChessExpert
Imagine being onboard a giant space vessel traveling through the galaxy in the distant future. You are part of a multi-generational mission meant to colonize another planetary system. The spacecraft you are on is enormous and can support a city-state of human travelers for thousands of years. Then, one day, a member of the captain’s privy council comes to a startling conclusion: at the current rate of the vessel’s population growth, human requirements will exceed resources in a few hundred years.
The captain gathers his trusted advisers in secret to discuss the dilemma. One side is not worried at all. Scientists from this coalition point out that before the ship departed, Earth engineers fully expected future inhabitants to continue innovating and improving the vessel’s capabilities. An agricultural adviser explains that the ship has exponentially increased its food production in the last few generations alone. Speaking to this point, the original doomsayer stands and says, “That’s just the problem. The more food we produce, the healthier our people become. The healthier they become, the more children they have. And the more children they have, the faster we will run out of resources in the future!”
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Have you ever noticed that LGBQT are either sterile or tend to a reduced birthrate? LGBQT went from marginal or nonexistent, to preferred in my lifetime.
There are "47 Shocking Population Control Quotes From The Global Elite": https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4288904/posts
If crazy ideas are not countered, people will eventually act upon them. Gain of function research, the Wuhan virus, three flash-points that could lead to WWIII, all serve the purpose of depopulation.
Remember: Depopulation begins with You!
No Generation Ship would launch without figuring out the population thing in advance
The worlds population keeps growing and growing. This in spite of Georgia Guidestones, Bill Gates conspiracy theories and poisonous vaccines containing the Aids virus, 5G chips and self assembling graphene structures.
The question is, where is it growing?
Gotta have ejection ports. 🌠
Heinlein’s “Orphans of the Sky.”
I though of that very book.
Encouragement of homosexuality.
Socialism to make children too expensive.
Automation and AI to keep productivity gains, in absence of people.
Abortion - enough children worldwide have been abortion to populate a 1920’s earth,
War
Disease.
Yes, there is a theme here.
Thanks for posting BTTT!
There are now 8 billion+ people on earth... 100 years ago there were 2 billion... We are not running out of humans. We are on the other hand, running out of resources.
The obvious answer is to immediately send the Doomsayer out the airlock!
Population growth is at an ever decreasing rate. We are very near the plateau and many countries, like Japan are on an actual decline.
Global decline will occur before the end of this century.
The question is if those of us who haven’t fallen for the hedonist lies will be like our predecessors and help usher in a new great awakening.
There are a few different stories that indicate China’s population is not only not replacing itself, but that the 1 Billion plus number is actually more like 800 Million and the government is just too scared to admit it.
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Indeed. The leaders would always make sure things are set up correctly ahead of time.
They will make sure that nobody is so dumb that they build many multitudes
of houses in an unsafe area that is beset by many problems - like being a firetrap.
And they will make sure that the reservoirs are filled and functional.
And the fire hydrants actually work.
We will always be lucky enough to have these things. Right?
So our leaders would certainly be up to the task of shepherding lots of
folks to new planet, right?
/sarc
India... 1.4 billion... And growing every day. China... 1.4 billion... And growing every day.
We’ve gone from 2 billion to 8 billon in 100 years... At that rate... We will be far too big to sustain ourselves in another 100 years. There just isn’t enough resources.
A key factor, related to the inculcation of the old Victim Entitlement Mentality, right from Lucifer, and employed in the garden of Eden.
You mean...uh...life will find a way?
It probably will. Until it no longer does…
I thought China’s population was galling now. Not growing, due to the one child policy for so long and deliberate culling of girl children. No?
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