UM-Bot Posted February 21, 2021 #1 Share Posted February 21, 2021 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshy Posted February 22, 2021 #2 Share Posted February 22, 2021 hope it makes me extinct. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbarosso Posted February 22, 2021 #3 Share Posted February 22, 2021 WELL, MAYBE....it will balance out the overpopulation in the world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seti42 Posted February 22, 2021 #4 Share Posted February 22, 2021 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingAngel Posted February 23, 2021 #5 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Any newborn living will adapt its body through time. Nothing to worry about. Selection natural FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeekTruth Posted February 24, 2021 #6 Share Posted February 24, 2021 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? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Raven Posted February 24, 2021 #7 Share Posted February 24, 2021 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. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeekTruth Posted February 24, 2021 #8 Share Posted February 24, 2021 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Raven Posted February 25, 2021 #9 Share Posted February 25, 2021 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. :( 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeekTruth Posted February 25, 2021 #10 Share Posted February 25, 2021 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Raven Posted February 25, 2021 #11 Share Posted February 25, 2021 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. :/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeekTruth Posted February 25, 2021 #12 Share Posted February 25, 2021 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Raven Posted February 25, 2021 #13 Share Posted February 25, 2021 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeekTruth Posted February 25, 2021 #14 Share Posted February 25, 2021 But why couldn't we in theory have the same population as we have today while also having in place sustainable practices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trelane Posted February 26, 2021 #15 Share Posted February 26, 2021 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted February 26, 2021 #16 Share Posted February 26, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeekTruth Posted February 26, 2021 #17 Share Posted February 26, 2021 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted February 26, 2021 #18 Share Posted February 26, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbarosso Posted February 27, 2021 #19 Share Posted February 27, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted February 28, 2021 #20 Share Posted February 28, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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