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What's So Terrible About Kids?
Bluesummers:
That's true, Hodges...but I believe/hope that with further advances in science, we'll be able to not only curb and possibly reverse the state of global pollution, but also increase the the earth's biological threshold for the human species. (Here's where everyone berates me for promoting GMOs, but that's a separate subject)
Carl-E:
We still grow exponentially, and the world iis still finite...
It's a problem.
ackblom12:
Actually the world population isn't growing exponentially. Our growth has been steadily declining for decades now. This isn't to say that we aren't growing population, but the global birth rate trends has us topping out and then declining by 2080 somewhere around the 12 - 15 billion point.
The decline is actually likely to cause some problems of it's own, but it'll clearly be good long term.
Bluesummers:
Exponentially no, but birth rates still exceed death rates. If you look at it mathematically, something needs to be done. Natural resources aren't infinite...but we as humans are innovative by design. Personally, I'd like to see martian terraforming take humanity and spread it out more widely...large space colonies a-la Gundam Wing are also an option...I know, I'm getting a little off-topic, but I'd like to think that humanity will preserve itself along with its host environment...unless the earth disagrees, and goes all "The Happening" or "Day the Earth Stood Still" upon us. Yeesh.
ackblom12:
I think you might have posted as I was editing.
But yes, clearly stuff needs to be done, but we're well on our way to dealing with many of them, including the issue of resources. The actual birth rate issue can only really be dealt with with time unfortunately.
Basically, it's likely that if we make it to the end of the century, as far as species survival goes we're golden.
Edit: That "if" in the last sentence is important.
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