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A study by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), to be released on Tuesday, warns that the Earth's population will be forced to colonize two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate, according to a report out this week.

GOOD NEWS: THE SKY IS FALLING!
The World Wildlife Fund has fears
that we only have fifty years.
Then we will have to leave.
BUT, how bad can it be,
if we CAN go to new frontiers?

I saw that article in two other threads. The doomsayers don't understand why the failed predictions of Paul Ehrlich, the Club of Rome, and others, failed to come true. The doomsayers don't understand economics. They don't understand the function of prices. They don't understand the benefits of private property rights. They don't understand that people actually create resources, such as by taking worthless sand, and turning it into computer chips worth trillions of dollars. They don't understand a concept as simple as farming. They don't know that desalination technology exists. They don't know that people plant trees. They continue to make these bogus predictions, because they don't understand why their past predictions failed to come true.

The doomsayers aren't actually interested in solving the problems. Because if they actually wanted to solve the problems, they would be in favor of private property rights, free market pricing, and capitalism. However, I have never met a single doomsayer who was in favor of any of those things. On the contrary, doomsayers hate those things. Doomsayers favor the very kinds of economic policies that caused Eastern Europe to become the worst polluted area that the world has ever had. Instead of urging third world countries to adopt first world legal systems, the doomsayers want first world countries to adopt thrid world legal systems. The doomsayers do not want to actually solve any problems. Instead, what the doomsayers really want is for the government to control everything, and to bring an end to private property rights.