Did you know humans are like locusts, We're driving ourselves extinct due to over-population?

[Wade12345]

when locusts swarm they have trillions of members, but their population falls off so much in the next generation that they go extinct.

Humans are the same way. we eat everything on the planet, and when our population reaches about 10 to 12 billion, it then falls off and we'll go extinct.

This should happen around the time of Isaac Newton's 2065 prophecy anyway, so there's nothing you people can do about it.

"eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die."

[sage2021]

I just wrote an opinion here about what will end life in the United States. My answer was overpopulation and no resources left.
Even Albert Einstein projected that over population would be the thing that would end life!
I feel like these illegals are the locusts that are going to take us down. They are always making children that they can't afford. They believe in big families. They are the overpopulators!
White people don't have big families like they used to. But is seems like the rest of the population doesn't give a crap about how many children they have, even in the face of not being able to afford each one of them.
What can we do about this situation?

[Wade12345]

We need to end Earned Income Credit and Refundable Child Tax Credits.

[EllaNella]

okay 1. locusts don't actually go extinct, the individual populations just die off
2. there is no overpopulation, just an overconsumption of ressources

[Wade12345]

rocky mountain locust literally drove themselves extinct by eating too much food.

google it.

There is over-population. we produce too much CO2 just by breathing, much less the amount of fossil fuels we burn.

humans produce 500 times too much greenhouse gases per year for the environment to recycle it. It will take 50,000 years for the environment to heal itself if we stop all combustion for the next 50,000 years AND reduce world population below 500 million for the next 50,000 years.

[EllaNella]

yeah, like i said, overconsumption of ressources, not overpopulation.
and no, we do not breathe too much CO2

the rocky mountains locusts most likely died out because their eggs, that were buried in the soil got destroyed by trampling, plowing and irrigation. not because they ate away all their food supply

[Wade12345]

I'll tell you how to do the math that proves humans produce too much CO2 just by breathing.

We breath about 0.57PPM CO2 every year. Using round numbers, each human produces 1kg CO2 per day just from breathing.

1kg * 365 days * 8 billion people = 2.92E12kg co2 per year from breathing.

Now search how big the atmosphere is:

5.15E18 kg

2.92E12/5.15E18 = .57ppm CO2 per year.

So that means about 1/4th of the net gain on the Keeling Curve every year comes just from the breathing of humans world wide. The other 3/4ths of the net gain comes from pollution and deforestation.

[Wade12345]

We actually produce over 30ppm CO2 every year, but the ocean absorbs about 28ppm per year... absorbs, note that i did not say "recycles" because it does't work.

[Anonymous]

Should be cut back now and held at only a few billion by why should I care I'll be dead before then anyway

[Avicenna]

So what do you think should be done about the Earth's population. That's the real question here.

[Wade12345]

1) world wide one child policy.
2) Word wide ban on people with less than 100i. q. reproducing.

[Avicenna]

The one child policy is a human rights violation and enforcing it results in lots of bad things. How about free access to contraception instead?

Banning people from having kids is also a human rights violation

[Wade12345]

no it's not. They used to ban retarded people from having kids right here in the U. S.

Have you ever axtually seen a second generation retarded child? I have. They're practically vegetables.

[Avicenna]

People with an IQ of 99 aren't retarded- they are of roughly average intelligence. IIRC, under 70 or so is retarded.

[OddBeMe]

Well, yeah. But the plateauing birth rates may be a self correction.