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[azabob]

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Depends on recruiting and drafting. WE do have a few players over 30

At least our preferred ruckman cannot be considered dinosaurs - so we should be ok on that front!

[azabob]

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On a geological time scale yes.

Disease or self destruction will cause that long before earthquakes or volcanoes. The complacency since covid has "gone" is proof of that. We are our own worst enemy.

Edit: I love these topics.

I don't believe in a greater god or whatever but clearly a message is being sent. Climate change, COVID, minor earthquakes I believe are all results of our disease and self destruction.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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Yes covid was most certainly a small warning of much worse to come if we continue the way we are going. The complacency and desire to want to go back to the way things were before it is worrying (even moreso than people's do or die attitude over toilet paper in the midst of the pandemic ).

Overpopulation and global warming (linked tightly together) will be the end of us if all-out war doesn't doesn't do it first. Covid will be seen as a mild warning for what other diseases could be created from us destroying and encroaching on habitats we shouldn't be touching.

The planet is telling us there's not enough room for us all. It will evolve and continue on its merry way but like you said, we'll be another species who won't survive the change.

[jeemak]

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I don't believe in a greater god or whatever but clearly a message is being sent. Climate change, COVID, minor earthquakes I believe are all results of our disease and self destruction.

Or the message is God's in over his head.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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At least our preferred ruckman cannot be considered dinosaurs - so we should be ok on that front!

Isn't English known as the brontosaurus?

[hujsh]

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Yes covid was most certainly a small warning of much worse to come if we continue the way we are going. The complacency and desire to want to go back to the way things were before it is worrying (even moreso than people's do or die attitude over toilet paper in the midst of the pandemic ).

Overpopulation and global warming (linked tightly together) will be the end of us if all-out war doesn't doesn't do it first. Covid will be seen as a mild warning for what other diseases could be created from us destroying and encroaching on habitats we shouldn't be touching.

The planet is telling us there's not enough room for us all. It will evolve and continue on its merry way but like you said, we'll be another species who won't survive the change.

I don't think overpopulation is an issue so much as how we share/use the resources we have. I think overpopulation is a serious sounding way to make people think it's normal we allow some to starve/live in poverty.

That said as climate change worsens maybe the number of people we can support will dwindle and then it will be a real issue.

[D Mitchell]

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I don't think overpopulation is an issue so much as how we share/use the resources we have. I think overpopulation is a serious sounding way to make people think it's normal we allow some to starve/live in poverty.

That said as climate change worsens maybe the number of people we can support will dwindle and then it will be a real issue.

World population has probably peaked already and is in decline, certainly in the developed world and even more certainly in Australia. It's mooted that China's population will reduce to around 700 mil by the end of the Century. India's reproduction rate is down to 2 per woman. Food production has never been more efficient. For the foreseeable future, over population isn't really an issue, as far as the population are concerned, damage to the environment is a different story.

[Dogs 24/7]

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I wonder how long until we go the way of the dinosaur.

I hope my wife doesnt read this. Shes been watching Walking Dead reruns and is a light sleeper.

[hujsh]

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World population has probably peaked already and is in decline, certainly in the developed world and even more certainly in Australia. It's mooted that China's population will reduce to around 700 mil by the end of the Century. India's reproduction rate is down to 2 per woman. Food production has never been more efficient. For the foreseeable future, over population isn't really an issue, as far as the population are concerned, damage to the environment is a different story.

Like button.

Nah I appreciate bringing facts to my half remembered idea of what I heard was the truth

[Grantysghost]

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I don't think overpopulation is an issue so much as how we share/use the resources we have. I think overpopulation is a serious sounding way to make people think it's normal we allow some to starve/live in poverty.

That said as climate change worsens maybe the number of people we can support will dwindle and then it will be a real issue.

Hasn't it doubled in some crazy amount of time.

It's completely unsustainable.

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth

[D Mitchell]

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Hasn't it doubled in some crazy amount of time.

It's completely unsustainable.

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth

Growth has only really slowed this century and it's plummeting, there's a graph in your extract that shows that. Even the graphs that show long term growth show a recent flattening out. Had exponential growth continued at the same rates as in the second half of the 20th century, it would have been unsustainable but that's not what's happened or happening. The current explanation is that as industrialisation, urbanisation and education, particularly of women, increases numbers of children diminish, on a farm, children are cheap labour, in the city they become an almost unaffordable luxury. In Australia, the current fertility rate is 1.58 per woman. Worldwide it's still around 2.4 but dropped from 5.6 in 1970.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Mansfield magnitude-6 earthquake shakes Melbourne, regional Victoria, southern NSW, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide

World population has probably peaked already and is in decline, certainly in the developed world and even more certainly in Australia. It's mooted that China's population will reduce to around 700 mil by the end of the Century. India's reproduction rate is down to 2 per woman. Food production has never been more efficient. For the foreseeable future, over population isn't really an issue, as far as the population are concerned, damage to the environment is a different story.

The biggest problem with the population is mostly over consumption of resources which is largely driven by the developed world and whose impacts are largely felt on the undeveloped world. If we reduced out consumption then population would become a lesser issue. But this world is driven by consumption so it's not going to happen. As global warming leads to less and less habitable areas, we're in for a tough time.

[Axe Man]

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Guys don't you know that global warming, covid and dinosaurs are hoaxes? The best part is that since the world is flat we have a whole other side we can use when this one gets full, so long as you don't mind being permanently upside down.

[D Mitchell]

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The biggest problem with the population is mostly over consumption of resources which is largely driven by the developed world and whose impacts are largely felt on the undeveloped world. If we reduced out consumption then population would become a lesser issue. But this world is driven by consumption so it's not going to happen. As global warming leads to less and less habitable areas, we're in for a tough time.

Quite right but as far as food is concerned, that's countered by efficiency, on a World basis, we over produce already. The "experts" predict declining world population. There are still problems, with industrialisation and urbanisation, despite diminished growth certainly and almost certainly decline in numbers, comes greater use of other resources and climate change but population growth isn't unsustainable.

[hujsh]

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Quite right but as far as food is concerned, that's countered by efficiency, on a World basis, we over produce already. The "experts" predict declining world population. There are still problems, with industrialisation and urbanisation, despite diminished growth certainly and almost certainly decline in numbers, comes greater use of other resources and climate change but population growth isn't unsustainable.

Yep. Make a lot so people feel they have choice and throw a bunch away because that's more profitable than giving it away for free