Bent crude tops 60 a barrel

time2roll wrote:
Drop in birthrate appears to be correlated with increased wealth.
Like most things, world population will get worse before it gets better.

'cause people with income have things to do other than procreate. Idle humans create...children;)

Drop in birthrate appears to be correlated with increased wealth.
Like most things, world population will get worse before it gets better.

SidecarFlip wrote:

3 tons wrote:

pnichols wrote:
Sooooooo ..... our only other choice is to "let" folks have all the kids they want everywhere ..... and then somehow/someway struggle to science/technology/IQ our way around it decade after decade as we all struggle more and more in a gradually destroyed Earth? Or is WW 3, or WW 4, or WW ? the answer to get the population back to where it should be?

I don't buy into either of those scenarios above .... and neither should anyone else.

I'm not advocating taking kids away who are already here, of course. What I'm advocating is education and, especially, empowering of potential parents everywhere as to what the population bomb wiill mean to all of the kids that they think they want to have ... and what parents should do about it going forward.

Maybe a good watch of Soylent Green is in order for everyone ... especially the scene where tractors scoop up people on ultra-packed city streets.

Great!!...A good start might be to legislate a prohibition against pre-marital sex!!

Never happen. Kids like to experiment, besides, it feels good.

“GUILTY AS CHARGED”!!

3 tons wrote:

pnichols wrote:
Sooooooo ..... our only other choice is to "let" folks have all the kids they want everywhere ..... and then somehow/someway struggle to science/technology/IQ our way around it decade after decade as we all struggle more and more in a gradually destroyed Earth? Or is WW 3, or WW 4, or WW ? the answer to get the population back to where it should be?

I don't buy into either of those scenarios above .... and neither should anyone else.

I'm not advocating taking kids away who are already here, of course. What I'm advocating is education and, especially, empowering of potential parents everywhere as to what the population bomb wiill mean to all of the kids that they think they want to have ... and what parents should do about it going forward.

Maybe a good watch of Soylent Green is in order for everyone ... especially the scene where tractors scoop up people on ultra-packed city streets.

Great!!...A good start might be to legislate a prohibition against pre-marital sex!!

Never happen. Kids like to experiment, besides, it feels good.

pnichols wrote:
Sooooooo ..... our only other choice is to "let" folks have all the kids they want everywhere ..... and then somehow/someway struggle to science/technology/IQ our way around it decade after decade as we all struggle more and more in a gradually destroyed Earth? Or is WW 3, or WW 4, or WW ? the answer to get the population back to where it should be?

I don't buy into either of those scenarios above .... and neither should anyone else.

I'm not advocating taking kids away who are already here, of course. What I'm advocating is education and, especially, empowering of potential parents everywhere as to what the population bomb wiill mean to all of the kids that they think they want to have ... and what parents should do about it going forward.

Maybe a good watch of Soylent Green is in order for everyone ... especially the scene where tractors scoop up people on ultra-packed city streets.

Great!!...A good start might be to legislate a prohibition against pre-marital sex!!

pnichols wrote:
Sooooooo ..... our only other choice is to "let" folks have all the kids they want everywhere ..... and then somehow/someway struggle to science/technology/IQ our way around it decade after decade as we all struggle more and more in a gradually destroyed Earth? Or is WW 3, or WW 4, or WW ? the answer to get the population back to where it should be?

I don't buy into either of those scenarios above .... and neither should anyone else.

I'm not advocating taking kids away who are already here, of course. What I'm advocating is education and, especially, empowering of potential parents everywhere as to what the population bomb wiill mean to all of the kids that they think they want to have ... and what parents should do about it going forward.

Maybe a good watch of Soylent Green is in order for everyone ... especially the scene where tractors scoop up people on ultra-packed city streets.

Love that movie. Charles Hesston was good in it. I think Soylent Green should be a required watch for all young adults and some older ones as well.

Pretty nice end off for old folks...

To successfully resolve some of these problems, the ‘superficial reasoning’ premises of the citizenry must be overcome... Mex previously eluded to this lack of reasoning as (paraphrased) a lack of real world math problem training, which nurtures our kids critical thinking skills....

Much of what I witness are flipped cursory (thoughtless) opinions that are mostly derived from the trendy, easy to harvest, popular opinion chain - a reinforcement of problematic Scientism...

3 tons

Sooooooo ..... our only other choice is to "let" folks have all the kids they want everywhere ..... and then somehow/someway struggle to science/technology/IQ our way around it decade after decade as we all struggle more and more in a gradually destroyed Earth? Or is WW 3, or WW 4, or WW ? the answer to get the population back to where it should be?

I don't buy into either of those scenarios above .... and neither should anyone else.

I'm not advocating taking kids away who are already here, of course. What I'm advocating is education and, especially, empowering of potential parents everywhere as to what the population bomb wiill mean to all of the kids that they think they want to have ... and what parents should do about it going forward.

Maybe a good watch of Soylent Green is in order for everyone ... especially the scene where tractors scoop up people on ultra-packed city streets.

I would believe that at some point Mother Nature will spring some virus on the multitudes and millions will succumb or some tyrant will get crazy with a thermonuclear device and the population will take a dramatic plunge, anything can (and will) happen. Just a matter of when and to what extent.

At my age, just waking up in the morning to a new day and new challanges is wonderful.

Irregardless, the price of fossil fuel (in one form or another), has a direct impact on my life at least. When it's inexpensive, I can use more of it than when it's costly.

Until some brain invents a perpetual motion machine, we are all indentured to it one way or another.

pnichols wrote:
Maybe if Earth's population was capped at, say, 1 billion souls those 1 billion souls wouldn't be unsustainably using up and ruining Earth, if at all ... regardless of how those 1 billion souls were living or driving.

Why is it that everyone, everywhere, assumes that it's OK to procreate as we please? BTW, we tried to do our part ... two kids .... with one kid stopping permanently at two kids and the other kid not having any kids.

Talk about the 800 more or less metric ton gorilla in the room .... geeeesh. :S

Who will be the ‘Wise Decider’??... Seems that this policy has already been tried in China, but its implimentation first requires the empowerment of a Totalarian Dictatorship, unless some believe that ‘maybe if tried again, this time we can get it right’ mentality thus, a soft but non-static dictatorship...But ‘accidents’ happen, so what to do?

Either way, the majority of population growth occurs in the third world, because affluent first worlder’s tend not to want to be bothered with the interference of one’s decadent (by world standards - quality of life) lifestyle, nor the distraction and burden of long years of costly child rearing...Thus, fortunate first worlder’s tend not to reproduce, this, one reason for their, how do I dare say it - corrosponding political agendas....

Yet in nature, theres always the possibility of a culling of the herd - in human’s case likely through abject but sanctioned stupidity...

3 tons