Just heard a crazy population stat...

[Cycsk]

This is unfortunately one topic where I fall into the tinfoil hat category a bit. Population is growing at an alarming rate relative to our means to support it. Without any societal changes at all, the numbers of starving people and people living in poverty increase as a byproduct of the percentages.

There is going to be a tipping point, and I'm a little afraid of what that will look like.

Imagine what it would be like if China hadn't had a one-child policy for most of that time period.

 

[SpokaneCY]

Meh, it'll get figured out. There's a whole lot of ocean that being underutilized for food production. If people would stop acting like scientific advances are a boogeyman, things will be a lot better. Posilac is about gone from the dairy industry. People are ******** about GMO, blah, blah, blah. When you intentionally try to stop progress of course it will make things harder for people to survive and thrive.

I throw away enough food to feed a medium sized African desert village.

 

[cowgirl836]

I think ironically we will get our butts kicked by something simple like a bacteria or virus. The human race has gotten supremely arrogant and past history has shown that once people are not preoccupied with surviving, they tend to become more absurd and deviant until something outside their realm wipes them out. Look at the Romans.

I think it wouldn't necessarily be us that get our butts kicked by a bacteria/virus, but rather our food supply. There's enough lack of diversity in our crop and animal genetic lines that environmental changes occurring faster than crop adaptation combined with a new variant of an animal virus with no vaccine (think FMD or PRRS) could be overwhelmingly devastating for places like parts of Africa, India, and China.


If we don't solve the antibiotic resistance issue, that's probably my leading idea for directly slowing human population growth.

 

[Dopey]

Didn't someone on this site post once that there is a credible scientist that has stated that they believe the person that will live to be 1,000 years old has already been born. I read that somewhere, I thought it was on here.

If that comes to be true, that throws a huge wrench into everything. So do you have to work for 7 or 8 hundred years before retiring? I don't want to work that long dammit!!

Ha! Retirement age was the first thing I brought up when discussing be this with my wife also.
I would absolutely go back to college every 200 years for a drastic career change.

 

[clonedude]

Ha! Retirement age was the first thing I brought up when discussing be this with my wife also.
I would absolutely go back to college every 200 years for a drastic career change.

Living that long is hard to even wrap your mind around. I think we'd likely have to start colonizing the moon, Mars, etc if we all started living that long.

The ethics involved in some of technologies being advanced is a very interesting topic to me. Living to be 1,000 years old... is that a good thing? Cloning people..... is that a good thing? Having robots do everything.... is that a good thing?

I'm not sure of my opinion on some of these things, but love to think about them sometimes.

 

[BCClone]

Living that long is hard to even wrap your mind around. I think we'd likely have to start colonizing the moon, Mars, etc if we all started living that long.

The ethics involved in some of technologies being advanced is a very interesting topic to me. Living to be 1,000 years old... is that a good thing? Cloning people..... is that a good thing? Having robots do everything.... is that a good thing?

I'm not sure of my opinion on some of these things, but love to think about them sometimes.

Who you cloning? Kate Upton or Whoppi Goldberg? Would make a difference on my opinion of cloning.