World Population (Page 2): Don't forget greed!

Morry Loc: Palm Springs, CA

Don't forget greed!

whatdat Loc: Del Valle, Tx.

Could it also be cyclical climate change as has happened throughout the history of the planet?

Canisdirus

It's the wellspring of most of our problems...

It will be corrected...one way or the other.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

whatdat wrote:

Could it also be cyclical climate change as has happened throughout the history of the planet?

What a concept!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Canisdirus wrote:

It's the wellspring of most of our problems...

It will be corrected...one way or the other.

It will, but I'm concerned with the erroneous "corrections".

andesbill

Robert Willson wrote:

In the Wall Street Journal's 11/16 edition was a article that the UN announced the World Population has reached 8 Billion people. In 1927 the population was only 2 Billion and in 1950 had grown to 2.536 billion.

Do you think this has caused Climate Change? More demand for material things, Houses, Car, Fuel for cars and Heat.

It seem that everyone wants to blame our climate woo's on energy companies, oil companies, but overlook the basic cause.

It’s well understood that the increase in population is the primary cause of our ecological problems. Trying to stop people from having babies doesn’t work, so we are trying to treat the symptoms of population and especially population growth. We haven’t been very successful, obviously.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Robert Willson wrote:

In the Wall Street Journal's 11/16 edition was a article that the UN announced the World Population has reached 8 Billion people. In 1927 the population was only 2 Billion and in 1950 had grown to 2.536 billion.

Do you think this has caused Climate Change? More demand for material things, Houses, Car, Fuel for cars and Heat.

It seem that everyone wants to blame our climate woo's on energy companies, oil companies, but overlook the basic cause.

The more people the Earth has to support the more we consume in resources, including fossil fuels which are the main culprit in the climate change we are experiencing.

Stan

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

I think of it like this:

The average person poops twice a day and for sake of estimates, let's assume it totals a pound a day.

8 million people = 8 million pounds of poop a day x 365 days per year = 2,920,000,000 pounds of poop...just from people. Add to that all of the animals, including the 10 quintillion insects on earth, and you will soon come to realize that we are living in a $hitty world.😜

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

redtooth wrote:

Mankind is on a path of self destruction . I hope before it ends it will be decided which is best ' RAW OR JPEG '

😂😂😂

Stan

slcarn Loc: Draper, Utah USA

redtooth wrote:

Mankind is on a path of self destruction . I hope before it ends it will be decided which is best ' RAW OR JPEG '

Thanks for the timely humor!

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

sippyjug104 wrote:

I think of it like this:

The average person poops twice a day and for sake of estimates, let's assume it totals a pound a day.

8 million people = 8 million pounds of poop a day x 365 days per year = 2,920,000,000 pounds of poop...just from people. Add to that all of the animals, including the 10 quintillion insects on earth, and you will soon come to realize that we are living in a $hitty world.😜

For a farmer, poop has value.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

sippyjug104 wrote:

I think of it like this:

The average person poops twice a day and for sake of estimates, let's assume it totals a pound a day.

8 million people = 8 million pounds of poop a day x 365 days per year = 2,920,000,000 pounds of poop...just from people. Add to that all of the animals, including the 10 quintillion insects on earth, and you will soon come to realize that we are living in a $hitty world.😜

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

DirtFarmer wrote:

For a farmer, poop has value.

Somebody once told me to put horse manure on strawberries.

I prefer sugar.

LestheK

Many, many years ago I was at a meeting where Jacques Cousteau said that the earth could maintain it's natural equalibrium with a population of 5 billion people. After that we will deplete our natural resources faster that they can recuperate. Scary!

mikenolan Loc: Lincoln Nebraska

Statistically speaking, more people freeze to death than die of high heat each year. So maybe global warming is leading to population increase?

/sarcasm off/