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21. That's true. OTOH, what we are seeing could be just a natural slowdown in reproduction

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 08:29 AM

Dec 2014

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Like that exhibited by all plague species right before their population crashes.

Here's an explanation of the phenomenon in terms of mice: http://www.cse.csiro.au/news/documents/Mouse_Plagues.pdf

My working hypothesis is that humans are a similar plague species, and that we're experiencing similar demographic events to mice. I share the views of David Attenborough, for example, as expanded in this blog post:

http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2013/01/are-humans-a-plague-on-the-earth.html

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Cheerful. Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #1

Good article pscot Nov 2014 #2

Ban fossil fuels, ban factory farm meats... hunter Nov 2014 #3

Add the banning of monocrop industrial agriculture. GliderGuider Nov 2014 #4

carbon tax won't work? GreenGreenLimaBean Nov 2014 #5

Big Fusion Reactor PeterClark Dec 2014 #6

No one forgot about it - you may want to read the article OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #7

Co2 scrubbers, I wondered about that nearly 10 yrs ago FogerRox Dec 2014 #8

A number of schemes have been suggested, including GMO trees OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #10

I wonder if fusion-powered CO2 scrubbers would help with this problem: GliderGuider Dec 2014 #9

Which goes against every institution we've built The2ndWheel Dec 2014 #12

Something is going on The2ndWheel Dec 2014 #17

Workforce growth is about 1.1% in the US FogerRox Dec 2014 #28

Education alone works in limited cases, like Sub-Saharan Africa. GliderGuider Dec 2014 #13

Isn�t wealth also linked to education? OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #15

Wealth requires more than education GliderGuider Dec 2014 #16

Surely they are linked though OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #18

The UN is now projecting a world population of 11 billion by 2100 GliderGuider Dec 2014 #19

�Prediction is Difficult, Especially the Future� - Niels Bohr OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #20

Years ago, I worked briefly with a mouse plague researcher OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #22

Was that Calhoun, or someone else? GliderGuider Dec 2014 #23

(It was someone else) OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 #24

On paper it would work, as OK said, FogerRox Dec 2014 #27

The Direct Drivers of Mass Extinction: GliderGuider Dec 2014 #29

Yup. FogerRox Dec 2014 #31

Fusion has always been 20 years away. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #25

Too bad climate change isn't... nt GliderGuider Dec 2014 #26