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In Reply to: RE: The damage to New Orleans largely was avoidable w/a well-designed and placed series of posted by tinear on August 29, 2014 at 07:12:26
The next thing on the list to be avoided is over-population, IMO.
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Have you practiced what you speak?
.., and a simple vasectomy can work wonders.None of us asked to be born, and once born, most of us cannot help wanting to live. It's nature's directive to live on for as long as it seems feasible.
That said, I'm all for the *gradual* reduction of our numbers. I'm not one to advocate mass suicide or anything like that, but our species seems slated for destruction in one way or another. We're not like most other animals. We're physically fragile, at least compared to most other species, and that is one reason why we require so much in the way of materials and resources in order to survive.
Our species was only meant to exist in limited numbers IMO, and for a variety of reasons we have gone way past that number, which in turn has caused us to stray way outside of the geographical areas best suited to our species, which in turn causes us to use too many resources...
I believe that the human race was designed to be semi-nomadic, mostly inhabiting the sub-tropical regions favorable to primates. With occasional and temporary forays into the less temperate regions for resource retrieval purposes, humans might have had all they needed without messing things up for every other species. Such a scenario would require a population that is about 1/10th the size of what it is today, I'm guessing, and that number was surpassed a few centuries ago.
If we don't start making some adjustments, nature is going do it for us IMO. This is just my belief. You are entitled to your own opinions too, of course.
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You first.
I might be willing to go first if I though that just one death would help. I guess I don't trust that several billion others would follow in my footsteps, as might be required. Unfortunately, it will take a lot more than one or two deaths (or even several million deaths) to pave the way for a sustainable future. My opinion.
wartorn 20th century (1st half, mostly), this one is shaping up nicely (unless another US pres is elected who thinks invading countries and trying to create democracies is a viable and affordable foreign policy).
I'm hoping for the best.
The planet goes on.
Until the sun cinders it.
Then the sun goes away.
At least, in this particular dimension.
We have (had?) a definite and important place in the ecosystem, probably as a sort of *caretaker*, as the ancient Bible writings seem to indicate. Being an effective caretaker requires a high degree of intelligence and this might be why man has such a distinctive brain. I'm of no particular faith, but some of what has been written makes a lot of sense to me.
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