There is a population explosion going on right now, is not something new but is getting even more scarier
For example in India, 50 percent of the population has reach reproduction matuirity, in some places women are obligated to have more than 8 children because they must give birth to a baby boy.
Well, I personally don't plan to have kids 'cause I don't really want all that responsibility... I think a lot of people are like that but they end up having kids anyways by accident...
On the contrary, More children equal future workers. More workers equals more production. Production equals survivor. Mother Earth can produce vast quantities of natural resources.
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No, more people, more need for food, more need for food, more need for places where to grow food and raise cattle, there is no place left. Now, people are beginning to use rainforest, like in Costa Rica, were a great part of the rainforest has been destroyed in order to grow bananas - chiquita to be more specific - and that means less trees, and trees are the lungs of the earth.
Those are agrarian problems that are constanly changing in order to improve the production of supplies. Sure bananas are much better to plant and sell. But sometime trees need to be cut down for certain plantation lands (bananas for example). If trees are needed then the Agrerian laws enforce the law of planting more trees. Cut a tree=plant another tree. Thus the cycle is never lost.
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Yes, Earth can produce vast quantities of natural resources, but when you're talking about upwards of six billion of the most destructive organisms on Earth... Nature can't keep up. If we keep this up, sooner or later, we're going to run out of oil (which I predict will happen in the not-too-distant future, unless we can come up with a better way of powering cars), forests, minerals, basically everything that our society depends on. It is quite selfish of us indeed to think that it's never-ending and we can take as much as we want. When people of European descent started coming over here, and to the West specifically, they saw thousands and thousands of acres of forest, farmland, even herds of bison that spanned miles. There was just so damn much of it, they figured it was never going to run out. So they just planted and cut and shot to their heart's content, and all of a sudden they realized they were running short on things to plant and cut and shoot. They had nearly exhausted their resources. Oops.
But I'm talking about big corportations forcing poeple, forcing countries to destroy lands in order to grow what is going to give them MONEY, do you think they care about the poeple? NO, do you think they care about the environment? no, they care for the money
Last edited by Kaleanae on Apr 21st, 2004 at 01:16 AM
Well, like Spear said, it works if you only look at the trees. But there is a whole 'nother part of the equation that cannot be ignored--the land. What good does it do you if you have enough trees to plant a forest but noplace to do it?
And Kal, I just got back from Costa Rica a few weeks ago, and holy shit you aren't kidding about the banana plantations. You drive from San Jose to the Caribbean coast (or as close to it as you can get by car) and there is NOTHING but banana plantations for about half the trip. And Mr. Luis the tour guide said that there are no more family owned banana farms. They're all owned by major corporations like Chiquita and Dole.
Hmm... The question then becomes... Which is more valuable--people, or forests? The answer seems to logically be forests... But my will to survive as a human prevents me from answering this quickly... A paradox, indeed.
I think overpopluation is basically something we won't be able to avoid. Like someone already stated, most births are by accident, and aren't planned. The more we can create (children-wise) the more we use. That goes for trees to, so if we stop cutting down trees we run out of space. If we stop...well i doubt we would stop having kids....
So to sum this up; We're all screwed no matter what
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Apr 21st, 2004 12:35 AM
I say we shoot them 
you know that i could use somebody,
