Not Enough People (Page 2): What's probably going to be a problem is not the number of people, but their ages. We need a certain number of workers "to work." As the population gets...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

What's probably going to be a problem is not the number of people, but their ages. We need a certain number of workers "to work." As the population gets older and retires, we need a young supply of workers in all age groups.

China made a huge mistake with their "one child" decree. They are now seeing population problems they didn't count on. "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

What's probably going to be a problem is not the number of people, but their ages. We need a certain number of workers "to work." As the population gets older and retires, we need a young supply of workers in all age groups.

China made a huge mistake with their "one child" decree. They are now seeing population problems they didn't count on. "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

jerryc41 wrote:

Yes, a "purple people-eater."

From the late '50s, for you young whippersnappers.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

DirtFarmer wrote:

From the late '50s, for you young whippersnappers.

Flip side of Chantilly Lace by The Big Bopper. Just before global cooling and acid rain was about to gobble us up…

JoeBiker Loc: homebase: Houston, TX

BigDaddy wrote:

First it was global cooling would kill us all.... Oh, I forgot, we be running out of oil sometime in the early '70's.

Everyone should know it's all a bunch of crap, and the truth is space aliens will soon swarm in and eat us all alive...

You left out Yellowstone erupting. And then, just today, it is "The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation" that "Could End Life as We Know It"

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a60212795/ocean-circulatory-system-shutdown/?source=nl&date=032124&GID=ebbc02c72533b814887c0b5028e859d425cdc94378b5226cf4fe1aec408482c1

(sorry if you can't open that article; it may not be a "guest" link).

JoeBiker Loc: homebase: Houston, TX

A thousand years ago, humans and their domesticated animals made up 2% of the mammal biomass on earth. Now, it is 90%. (source: The Human Age by Diane Ackerman)

Economist think populations need to grow; I (and Diane Ackerman) think there are more people on this planet than this planet can support.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

DirtFarmer wrote:

From the late '50s, for you young whippersnappers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tKNEsJjTI

cbabcock

tuatara wrote:

Ignorance, especially the wilfull type, is the biggest danger. Knowledge about these subjects is constantly improving, sometimes voiding what we thought we knew, and being 78 is no excuse for not trying to keep up.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

jerryc41 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tKNEsJjTI

He did good but...
The one playing on my spaceship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t1pwBnAYz0

dbrugger25 Loc: Raleigh, NC

jerryc41 wrote:

It seems that a declining population could be a bi... (show quote)

Texas, USA has 26,882,000 square miles. At 640 acres per square mile, that is 17,200,480,000 square miles. That, divided by 8 billion is 2.15 acres per person. The USA has enough fresh water and agricultural capacity to feed all those people.

The problems are related to economic capacity and distribution of necessities. In fact, if those problems could be solved, the Earth can support several times its present population, even if all those people lived in North America.

What I have noticed is that all those predicted crises. that never materialized have resulted in many more laws being passed to limit our freedoms and control our lives. Each has resulted in massive government spending that usually benefitted no one except the industries that made huge profits from each crisis and, of course, more power for the elected officials and agencies that run the countries.

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

jerryc41 wrote:

It seems that a declining population could be a bi... (show quote)

The most obvious issue with under population is, Taxes will skyrocket to keep the government in the lifestyle it accustomed to.

DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

The Twilight Zone (Classic): To Serve Man - It's A Cook Book!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

DougS wrote:

The Twilight Zone (Classic): To Serve Man - It's A Cook Book!

The Simpsons did that story, too.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

Haenzel wrote:

It al depends on what you consider to be a trusty source. There is a lot of crap in the (social) media, always has been...Use your brain instead of stating that each claim is crap.

Not Bill Nye the (fake) science guy, that's for sure.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

tuatara wrote:

Ignorance, especially the wilfull type, is the biggest danger. Knowledge about these subjects is constantly improving, sometimes voiding what we thought we knew, and being 78 is no excuse for not trying to keep up.

What am I not keeping up with, the global warming, global cooling, acid rain, ozone holes, population overload, population underload, climate change, Sea water flooding Florida, 3 micron masks saving you from 10 nanometer virus? All this crap is contained in the Kool aide you've been drinking. If you had been keeping up yourself you'd know that none of the hand wringers predictions have panned out of the last 50+ years. Ignoring what's actually happening, and what real scientists are saying is where the real ignorance lies.

I suggest buying a large roll of Aluminum foil and wrapping your head in it before the Purple People Eater descends from the heavens and eats ya'll up.