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Global Crisis 'to Strike by 2030'
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| Christine McGourty
Posted on 03/19/2009 10:56:41 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Quick everyone, panic!
To: nickcarraway
I seriously believe this planet could handle 50 billion people.
The only thing stopping it would be politics, which is the cause of most famines, etc. today.
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posted on
03/19/2009 10:58:03 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
To: nickcarraway
Ah..... for the good old days. When hacks like these were burned at the stake....
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posted on
03/19/2009 10:58:37 AM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
To: nickcarraway
Remember in the early 70’s the population explostion was gonna do us in before the turn of the century?
Now countries are begging their citizens to have more kids.
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posted on
03/19/2009 10:59:27 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
To: nickcarraway
No way! we will all be happily making our our power from the wind. We’ll be eating leaves and the government will do everything for us....life will be perfect...**Sigh**
Gosh, 2030 I will be 62 and working! Retirement will be pushed back until your 127
To: nickcarraway
Let see I’ll be 87, maybe if still here I guess I should start preparing.
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:00:02 AM PDT
by
boomop1
To: nickcarraway
yes, another crisis must be created to and avert attention to the CRISIS AT HAND NOW in the form of our current administration and their desire to destroy America as we know it.
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:00:12 AM PDT
by
sevinufnine
(Sevin - "If we do not fight when we know we can win, we'll have to fight when we know we will lose")
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:01:35 AM PDT
by
WildcatClan
(Iam fimus mos ledo ventus apparatus)
To: nickcarraway
have you noticed that nearly EVERY frigging show on the animal planet or discovery now ends with some type of globull warming message?
I’m sick to death of this and wondering who stands to make money off this scam.
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:02:29 AM PDT
by
a real Sheila
(Obama's FAILURE is the only chance the U.S. has for SURVIVAL!)
To: nickcarraway
The experts in our society can predict events twenty years out but failed to see the stock market crash coming.
Makes you a little skeptical.
To: nickcarraway
“Quick everyone, panic!”
Bingo!
It takes the vantage point of age to be able to deal with this crap. I remember when acid rain and an ice age were going to doom us. In the 1970s we were told by the year 2000 a person would need protective gear against rain. And the population explosion? It likely would doom us all by 2000.
It’s just like when the stock market has bad times, the doom and gloomers predict depression. They may be right this time, but I’ve lived through about 10 predicted depressions that never materialized.
There are people who will do anything to make a buck in all forms of human endeavor.
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:03:30 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Kool aid comes in two new flavors: Hope and Change.)
To: nickcarraway
Ehrlichism is sooooooo 1970s. This Brit knucklehead is simply recycling old and failed scare tactics.
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:03:36 AM PDT
by
Carling
("We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," - Warwick Spooner)
To: nickcarraway
Climate change will exacerbate matters in unpredictable ways, he added. If it's unpredictable, how do we know it will be an "exacerbation"?
To: nickcarraway
When these doomsdayers have conventions, it must be kind of embarrassing to receive the “lifetime achievement award.”
“We are honored tonight to present this award to Mr. Smith. For the past fifty years, Mr. Smith has been tirelessly educating people about how we are ten years away from total collapse.”
To: nickcarraway
Is this the same yahoo who swore we’d all starve to death by 1980, that there would be a full-scale nuclear war in the 90’s, and that every computer, and computer-based thingamajiggy would fail on 01/01/00?
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:06:04 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
To: nickcarraway
Let's make our predictions more timely: "Global Crisis 'to Strike on January 20, 2009"
Do I get points for being right?
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:07:05 AM PDT
by
TurtleUp
(Turtle up: cancel optional spending until 2012, and boycott TARP/stimulus companies forever!)
To: RobRoy
I seriously believe this planet could handle 50 billion people.
The only thing stopping it would be politics, which is the cause of most famines, etc. today.
Politics is about the policies that people use to get along and to get things done. As such, politics will be with us as long as humans exist. The problem is about "stupid politics", such as socialism and communism and despotism.
However, I'm not too sure about that 50 billion figure of yours. While it might be possible for the world to afford to feed and clothe and house the 50 billion people, it would create a lot more of the politics which ultimately brings about cultural and religious conflicts which bring about wars. I say, let's keep it down to 6 billion or less.
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:07:29 AM PDT
by
adorno
(<br><br>)
To: nickcarraway
Wow. Somebody looking at population figures and predicting future shortages. How novel. Combining the population bomb with the warming scare is pure genius. This man deserves a Nobel for showing such courage and bucking the establishment with this dire warning.
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:09:06 AM PDT
by
Minn
(Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
To: nickcarraway
The strong will survive,.......................... unless gov’t robs them to prop up the weak.
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:09:58 AM PDT
by
umgud
(I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
To: nickcarraway
"Climate change will exacerbate matters in unpredictable ways, he added."
How does he figure that? 1)AGW hasn't been up estimates for the last 10 years or so.
2)If the world does warm up much of Canada and Siberia become usable farmland. the areas that go out of production are much smaller geographically than the areas that come into production. Now you may need to move people around and allow the economy to adjust to the new reality. May cause problems for central planners, but in a free market would adjust quickly enough. Oh thats right the EU is dominated by socialist central planners. /sarc
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:12:30 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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