... and if Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ is a failed premise, what then?
Posted on 03/23/2008 9:52:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Desalination, fertilizer, genetically modified crop strains.
Looks like people are all over the world eating and living better. Always a problem for lefties.
>”...if you grouped TEN billion people together...they would ALL fit in the state of Rhode Island...”<
Very clever. But in Rhode Island is there enough clean drinking water and sewage treatment infrastructure to handle that large number of people? The problem isn’t just about where they will stand, but the quality of life those people would have.
... and if Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ is a failed premise, what then?
Yeh, but it sure has made it hard to find good hunting and camping locations, not to mention driving up the cost of land.
THE problem is unlimited growth of populations in violent, savage and uncivilized areas. Those people breed like bacteria and invade civilized countries.
Europe and the USA are not reproducing fast enough to replace the population. This provides an opportunity for the invaders to come in and take over.
Oh Yes, how stupid of me, OK then we will put them all in Texas, no in fact I will be generous and we will put them all within the borders of the USA. Or do you feel that wouldn't be enough land and water to support them?
I am sorry I did not take you through the nearly impossible to miss implications. If you would put them All in the USA there would be 2827 people per square mile. To put that into perspective New York city totals 327 Square Miles with a population of 8,008,278(2000 census) that is over 24,490 people per square mile.
And before you miss the implications of the above. That gives you Canada and South America plus the entire rest of the world to grow food in, or obtain drinking water etc. As anyone can plainly see the Earth is huge and we as a species don't even make a dent in overwhelming the land mass or overburdening the water supply.
However we do have yahoos in charge who would like you to think such. What in truth is really happening is that we allow junk-science and downright lies to dictate policy which gives idjits like Al Gore the power to lead us all by the nose holding hostage our wallets and our liberty all in the name of keeping him in power.
Do yourself a favor and educate those around you how far wrong these suck-monkeys are before they drain us all of our freedoms.
"New technology could help ease the resource crunch. Advances in agriculture, desalination and the clean production of electricity, among other things, would help.
Master of the obvious?
Geesh, we have technologies today that can literally take crop growth indoors and take away much of the enviroment's damage on food production (Heavy rains, wind, hail, freezing, etc.)
Not to mention advances in fertilzation and preservation. Yet these people act like there maybe no "New Tech" on the way that will up the result of food production.
We have not even scrathed the surface of genetic manipulation yet.
But hey, "doom and gloom" sells news media, the problem is most people fall for the hype.
A number I periodically recalculate:
Dividing the land area of the planet by current population, we get a fair share of 5.6 acres per person ... 2.6 acres if considering that half the land is rank wilderness (effectively inhospitable). For contrast, consider that Monaco has 95 people per acre.
Between efficient housing and efficient farming, we’ve got a long way to go. Population dynamics tend to be self-correcting in the face of resource limitation and other issues; consider that Europe is currently facing a population _implosion_.
The majority of humans live in high-density environments, and don’t seem to have a problem with the quality of life there. Infrastructure can be, and is, dealt with.
There are already places in the U.S. that have restricted new construction because of the limited availability of water, as in southern Colorado, parts of Arizona, and in California. Oregon and Washington are looking at similiar challenges because agriculture and fisheries need water. This has nothing to do with available land but the amount of rainfall. In our southwest, many aquifers are dangerously low due to drawdown in excess of the ability of rainfall and ground seepage to replenish the aquifer. This is not junk science; it is real and happening now.
Desalination? Sure. But the first thing that will disappear in overcrowding are our freedoms. It is already happening in our cities, the most densly populated areas.
The Club of Rome is a front for the eugenicists.
You want to live in an overcrowded city, go for it. I live in southwest Washington State in a forest. This state has a population of less than 6 million people, last I looked into it. The nearest city to me with more than 100,000 people is Portland, Oregon (we refer to it as The People’s Republic of Portland), a very left-wing place I never visit. It is fifty miles away but it might as well be on the back side of the Moon, for all I care about big cities.
Because of increasing population that city has enacted stringent land-use laws. Typical! People are losing their rights and freedoms BECAUSE of population density.
Really where does this water go, To mars?
Weather Patterns change but water does not leave the planet, it just moves. However there are those in power that will "tell" you that we are running out of drinkable water. What they mean is "give us more money (taxes) and we will "fix" this problem.
BTW did you know water is recyclable? Amazing isn't it.
No doubt, but being that we could pluck the entire population of the Earth down in Rhode Island and have space leftover makes it impossible to make an argument about overcrowding.
Unless of course you wish to deny reality.
Its those -50 degree F winters that keeps me from moving there. That and I understand that the major employer there is the government. Being a middle age white guy, I have a better chance of hitting the lottery than getting a job with the government.
The weather along the south and southwestern coasts is actually warmer than the midwest in winter. There is a lot of seasonal employment in the fishing and seafood processing industries. I think I saw from your profile that you have a pilot’s liscense. Small aircraft are the taxis and buses up there. You could make a good living hauling passengers and freight. However, the flying conditions are not exactly the best.
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