Geomagnetic reversal link to mass extinction

[UM-Bot 11,080]

Scientists believe that a historic reversal of the Earth's magnetic field may have proven catastrophic.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/344093/geomagnetic-reversal-linked-to-mass-extinction

[joshy 8]

hope it makes me extinct.

[pbarosso 495]

WELL, MAYBE....it will balance out the overpopulation in the world.

[Seti42 1,640]

I doubt it'll effect us much. We'd be aware of it, and fix all of our tech that's at risk.
I suppose it might mess with migratory animals. Hard to say.
Everything I've read about the idea of pole reversal says it would have little effect.

[FlyingAngel 267]

Any newborn living will adapt its body through time. Nothing to worry about. Selection natural FTW

[SeekTruth 636]

On 2/21/2021 at 11:30 PM, pbarosso said:

WELL, MAYBE....it will balance out the overpopulation in the world.

How many people is too many, in your view?

[Bavarian Raven 1,659]

1 hour ago, SeekTruth said:

How many people is too many, in your view?

From a long term environmentally sustainability POV (at western standards on living), we’d ideally need a pop under a billion. :/ 

[SeekTruth 636]

1 hour ago, Bavarian Raven said:

From a long term environmentally sustainability POV (at western standards on living), we’d ideally need a pop under a billion. :/ 

Can you expound on your reasoning?

[Bavarian Raven 1,659]

4 hours ago, SeekTruth said:

Can you expound on your reasoning?

To live at western standards requires A LOT of resources per person per year. The earth can only support / regenerate so much per year. The more people living at a higher standard of living, the more resources needed / taken / harvested every year. At the current human population (if everyone was to live at western standards), we would need 6 to 7 earths to live indefinitely. :( Basically, we're using up more resources every year than are being regenerated. :(

[SeekTruth 636]

1 hour ago, Bavarian Raven said:

To live at western standards requires A LOT of resources per person per year. The earth can only support / regenerate so much per year. The more people living at a higher standard of living, the more resources needed / taken / harvested every year. At the current human population (if everyone was to live at western standards), we would need 6 to 7 earths to live indefinitely. Basically, we're using up more resources every year than are being regenerated.

I'd be curious to see the math involved. I suppose the sooner we can mine asteroids the better!

[Bavarian Raven 1,659]

22 minutes ago, SeekTruth said:

I'd be curious to see the math involved. I suppose the sooner we can mine asteroids the better!

Asteroid mining won't really help. It's not so much metals that are in short supply (the earth contains massive massive massive amounts of Iron, etc), its more so deforestation, over fishing, pollution, etc, that are the real problems. I got my degree in environmental and biological sciences. it was depressing. :/

 

[SeekTruth 636]

11 hours ago, Bavarian Raven said:

Asteroid mining won't really help. It's not so much metals that are in short supply (the earth contains massive massive massive amounts of Iron, etc), its more so deforestation, over fishing, pollution, etc, that are the real problems. I got my degree in environmental and biological sciences. it was depressing. :/

 

So it is not overpopulation that is your concern so much as it is unsustainable practices.

[Bavarian Raven 1,659]

2 hours ago, SeekTruth said:

So it is not overpopulation that is your concern so much as it is unsustainable practices.

Both. They’re directly linked. Either we need to lower the pop dramatically ASAP or reduce our standards of living several centuries for the most part

[SeekTruth 636]

But why couldn't we in theory have the same population as we have today while also having in place sustainable practices?

[Trelane 4,102]

5 hours ago, SeekTruth said:

But why couldn't we in theory have the same population as we have today while also having in place sustainable practices?

Well the overall number, if it remained the same, you might, might. The issue becomes the shift in percentages. That meaning how many people live by western standards now as opposed to all? If every single human alive now were to be living by western standards there would be an implosion of critical resources. To prevent this there would have to be some significant changes to how we access and use the available resources

[Myles 17,177]

21 hours ago, SeekTruth said:

But why couldn't we in theory have the same population as we have today while also having in place sustainable practices?

I don't really have numbers to support my view.  

I feel the world is very much overpopulated.   I would be in favor of seeing it at under a billion as Raven said.  Animal species would be able to increase their numbers.   Land would be available for settling.  Pollution would decrease quite a bit.  Using 1/7 as the population, it would allow some cities to successfully power themselves with alternate energy.  A city of 500,000 would be a city of 71,000.   Granted that's not completely accurate because we don't know where people would settle.  

[SeekTruth 636]

3 hours ago, Myles said:

I don't really have numbers to support my view.  

I feel the world is very much overpopulated.   I would be in favor of seeing it at under a billion as Raven said.  Animal species would be able to increase their numbers.   Land would be available for settling.  Pollution would decrease quite a bit.  Using 1/7 as the population, it would allow some cities to successfully power themselves with alternate energy.  A city of 500,000 would be a city of 71,000.   Granted that's not completely accurate because we don't know where people would settle.  

And how would you like to see us get to that number?

[Myles 17,177]

2 hours ago, SeekTruth said:

And how would you like to see us get to that number?

I don't think we ever will outside of massive world wars.  It's more of a wish without any good way to get there.  

I would like to see more efforts in keeping population increases more in check.   Free vasectomies would be nice.  

I would offer anyone in jail some time off their sentence if they get "fixed".   Not much off the sentence though.   Maybe 2 months off a 5 year sentence if you get fixed.  

[pbarosso 495]

you people think much too highly of humans. we could never hurt the earth. the earth will freaking KILL us all. we have zero chance of hurting it. only hurting ourselves.

[Abramelin 7,618]

No one is hurting the earth. We only inhabit the upper part of its 'skin'. But our presence is most certainly hurting other life forms on this rock.