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Posted on 04/06/2026 6:30:00 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
The human population has already grown too large and demanding for Earth to sustainably support at current consumption levels, a new study warns.
Based on more than two centuries of population data, a team led by Corey Bradshaw of Flinders University in Australia found humanity is living well beyond the bounds of what our planet can support long-term.
Ecologists describe the ability of an environment to sustain a species' population as its "carrying capacity". It's an estimate of the number of individuals from any given species that can survive long-term, based on the resources at hand and the rate at which those resources regenerate.
Around 12 billion is the absolute maximum estimated carrying capacity, but it's far from the optimum at our current levels of resource consumption, which Bradshaw and team calculate to be 2.5 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
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Maybe the ‘data team led by Corey Bradshaw of Flinders University in Australia’ could help by offing themselves?
They can just go jump in the lake.
Tell it to the muslims and indians.
All predictions like this are always wrong.
"We are losing the people that's going to pay my Social Security, and that bothers me." - Dr. Joycelyn Elders, US Surgeon General, Congressional Testimony, October 1993.
If these creeps were to make this big announcement, and then drink their hemlock, I would have more respect. I still wouldn’t believe them.
They are like the jihadists who always get someone else to blow themselves up.
A new study found. BS. There is now an official study for every conclusion anyone wants to make. The earth had several million buffalo. Then that got a lot smaller. In fact Humans have killed off a huge amount of mammals. So there really aren’t more now. The earth can/has support a huge variation of life. Far more than exists now.
Sorry Folks. The Earth is closed. The Moose out front should have told you.
Thomas Malthus says: “I warned you”.
That's an easy one. Just as during the Apollo missions, gorgeous photos of the beautiful Earth are being sent back by Artemis and being marveled at by millions. This gives the Left a chance to take out their dusty old '60s and '70s propaganda manual and begin unleashing guilt-inducing sob stories about how humans (especially, of course, USA humans) are dooming our beautiful planet to whole new generations.
Just as they pulled out their dusty '60s and '70s "Racism" manual during the Obama years, and especially during "Black Lives Matter," they know the US has a whole lot of low-info people who'll do their bidding, if they feed them enough emotional BS.
The Left has nothing new to offer, at all, but they're getting a lot of mileage out of dragging up all their decades-old gaslighting.
Yes.
They told me I was doomed 55 years ago..
My area’s Indian population has surpassed the local Costco’s capacity.
And yet still, here we are!
What a conundrum!
This from Science Publication...
WE ALL KNOW NOW THAT SCIENCE IS A LOAD OF CRAP...
That’s what I learned for the past few years.
many people have obviously never made a road trip through America... 90% of the US is nothing but empty land and forests.
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