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pscot

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16. They depend on each other

Reply to Hydra (Reply #11)

Sun Apr 3, 2016, 07:42 PM

Apr 2016

Capitalism creates surplus, which drives population, which drives capitalism to create more surplus and so it goes. You can't have growth without surplus and when people are doing ok, they breed. There is no way to regulate population.

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The idea that the world can stay below +2� C looks increasingly delusional [View all] pscot Apr 2016 OP

kick, kick, kick.... daleanime Apr 2016 #1

"countries might just stop trying altogether". Humanity seems to have lost the collective will to NRaleighLiberal Apr 2016 #2

We ARE carrying out positive change. Just ask any oligarch. nt GliderGuider Apr 2016 #7

Hello World! Accurate information is everywhere. Are you paying attention? nt ladjf Apr 2016 #3

As Long As The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Own And Control The Politicians That Own And cantbeserious Apr 2016 #4

That's more or less the problem Hydra Apr 2016 #5

Absolutely Correct cantbeserious Apr 2016 #6

The numbers in the Arctic and on the ground here suggest we're already past it Hydra Apr 2016 #9

Sad To Say - My Days On Earth Are Numbered - This Will Fall To The Young - To Endure cantbeserious Apr 2016 #12

Same problem for me Hydra Apr 2016 #13

The root problem is there are just too many of us pscot Apr 2016 #8

Stated Differently - The Root Problem Is Greed - Exacerbated By Uncontrolled Population Growth cantbeserious Apr 2016 #10

Capitalism also depends on population growth to exist Hydra Apr 2016 #11

Collapse Now And Avoid The Rush - A Deindustrial Reading List - For The Unfolding Future cantbeserious Apr 2016 #14

They depend on each other pscot Apr 2016 #16

Actually, negative population growth tends to happen wherever people get a good standard of living Hydra Apr 2016 #17

Not true pscot Apr 2016 #19

And in the two years since this was written GliderGuider Apr 2016 #15

I figured were there already from observable evidence Hydra Apr 2016 #18