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end of the world clubDiscussion: end of the world club
"Hi there, this tribe captures one of the core reasons why i set up my tribe, 'the end of the world club' Meant tongue in cheek of course (or is it?) At some point we will reach the limits to growth in terms of population. Closed system limited resources, waste, space water, food ect . Climate change is just a symptom of a disease, a fever if you like! Unfortunately that makes humans the disease. Not that i have any animosity to my own species, or any other for that matter (though mosquitos i think i could happily see extinct). Either by choice or population ecology our species will be restrained and choosing not to reproduce is not really hard wired into our genes now is it! The likelihood is that we will ensure that we exhaust all scientific and social routes possible to force our environment to support growing numbers of humans beyond the planets environmental carrying capacity well before we seriously turn our scientific and social apparatus on the basic problem of population. This way we will create a population bubble in the same way that we created a bad credit bubble through the credit crunch. With the credit crunch, head in the sand fiscal policies allowed us to over-extending economic growth borrowing ever more money against an economic future that just didn't exist. Sustainable economics and sustainable population are very similar. They both tend to be followed by the word 'growth' thus turning them into oxymorons. We all desparately want to belive that both eternal economic and population growth are possible (who wants a savings account that pays no interest and the prospect of never having children!) and cannot bare the concept that more people in a finite world means less to go round. More wealth means that more poverty elsewhere. Hence the end of the world club, as i think we will only start to look seriously at limiting global population went it is too late. Mother nature's immune system will be far less worried about the politics! "
By: jerome :: 10 months ago
carrying capapcity, end of the world club, overshoot, population
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