Environment & Energy

chervilant

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26. hmm...

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 03:42 PM

Mar 2013

You've probably heard all the gradoo that I have, since I'm the only one of six sisters who chose to remain childless. You'd think I had built pipe bombs and put them in all the area elementary schools! I STILL hear grief about it, and I had a hysterectomy more than seven years ago!

I have tried and tried to explain to my students that we live in exponential times. I used the tsunami in Japan as the last example: the fact that people around the globe were watching the catastrophe in REAL TIME was mind-blowing! I think the students I had at that time were able to glimpse the concept of exponential times. It's so very new to our species, and we just haven't yet adjusted to it. I hope Gaia has a leveling event soon, so that our damage to our ecosystem isn't unrecoverable (thinking about Fukushima now--a global nuclear disaster could render this planet uninhabitable for centuries).

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How overpopulated is the planet, really? [View all] GliderGuider Mar 2013 OP

I thought our population was 6,000 times too big. wtmusic Mar 2013 #1

G'day, mate! I wonder how many ways there are to say, GliderGuider Mar 2013 #2

What is the percentage of people across the globe LWolf Mar 2013 #3

Pretty much. GliderGuider Mar 2013 #4

To summarize: LWolf Mar 2013 #11

Pithy and succinct. I like it. GliderGuider Mar 2013 #13

No it isn't. AtheistCrusader Mar 2013 #36

Well, now... chervilant Mar 2013 #21

Yes. LWolf Mar 2013 #25

Need to start eating bugs. Neoma Mar 2013 #5

That's why they're called meal-worms, isn't it? GliderGuider Mar 2013 #6

I was being serious. Neoma Mar 2013 #9

I know, just trying to lighten up an other wise deadly-serious topic. nt GliderGuider Mar 2013 #10

Best I can do is recycle and be vegetarian. Neoma Mar 2013 #15

Recycle, Freecycle, and chervilant Mar 2013 #22

I live in a condo, no room for that stuff. Neoma Mar 2013 #23

Have you finalized which 50 million get to continue breathing? FBaggins Mar 2013 #7

Nope. GliderGuider Mar 2013 #12

I've been saying this for decades BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2013 #8

Could I advise you to save your breath, energy and friendships? GliderGuider Mar 2013 #14

I know too. BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2013 #16

Hey!!! chervilant Mar 2013 #24

"can't hear you. They will resent you for saying it. " stuntcat Mar 2013 #17

This morning I did a little thought experiment on involuntary population decline GliderGuider Mar 2013 #20

hmm... chervilant Mar 2013 #26

I wonder if your students.. stuntcat Mar 2013 #29

Can I just point out there's no 'data' in the OP at all muriel_volestrangler Mar 2013 #33

I think that if you're right, you should take it up with the OP poster. BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2013 #34

Why is your upper limit "a non-energy-assisted society of hunter-forager-gardeners"? Jim Lane Mar 2013 #18

Because my definition of "sustainability" is too strict to allow for technological renewables GliderGuider Mar 2013 #19

Thanks for the clarification, but I disagree -- there should be some room for technology. Jim Lane Mar 2013 #31

If that turns you on, by all means go for it. GliderGuider Mar 2013 #32

I think your numbers are low, but the gist is right. napoleon_in_rags Mar 2013 #27

I'm not trying to present this as some kind of "population target". GliderGuider Mar 2013 #28

So, even the Georgia Guidestones figure of "500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature", is high. NYC_SKP Mar 2013 #30

My assumption about the number that represents sustainability is just that - an assumption GliderGuider Mar 2013 #35

"1500% into overshoot" ... should be 14900%. nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2013 #37

Yeah, I realized that later. My web article has it corrected. GliderGuider Mar 2013 #38