Pffft. Wind the clock back however far you like and there will always have been comments that the world is overstocked with humans.
Funny though, cos we always seem to get by, either through technological innovation, farming efficiency or some other smart invention through the ages.
Isn't the problem around who is in charge? Unfortunately, the people who need food the most have dipshit leaders, who couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper bag and have no idea about providing for their people, or managing the population through improved sex education/contraception, etc.
Slightly off topic, but yesterday I came across an article that said back in 1972, Time Magazine (no less) was publishing articles about how the world's most eminent scientists were worried about - guess what - global
cooling!!!
and how we all were heading for imminent demise (flared trousers and all). Does the theme sound familiar? Oh, they also said that there was no proof that humans were the cause of this (one theory was that it was caused by comets - no shit
).
So, where's the proof the we're causing global warming? Hang on, that last sentence
assumes that global warming is a fact... I say: who conclusively knows this, particularly given how scientists have sort of been wrong in the past (flat earth, global cooling, etc)? Heck, we went through a Little Ice Age between 1500 and 1800, where the Thames froze over for 2 months and ice was 11 inches thick. Methinks nature has more control over the planet than we give it credit for and has its own way of re-balancing things...
I'm a sceptic (did ya guess
). After all, who
really knows what is happening and what the
real causes are. Maybe there aren't any and it's all a natural cycle...after all
who caused the last Ice Age???? And the subsequent global warming (cos that's what it would have felt like, relatively, if you'd been living in an igloo in the middle of Edinburgh at the time)???
This ETS thing is fundamentally flawed in my opinion and simply another means of extracting $ out of taxpayers pockets into this, and other, government's pockets - thereby becoming the first global tax in history.
Dr /thingy/ was on telly the other day saying it was a rort and that it could cost NZ between 20 and 80 BILLION dollars in the next 30 years, depending on how quickly this government sign us up...and guess who's paying? You and me and our kids. Bloody good onya mate for challenging the assumptions that are put in front of us as fact.
Sure, live less wastefully, more responsibly and more socially. That's great, but you & I aren't going to change the world. Fact. There are problems closer to home on that front - just have a look at the of the road next time you're a passenger in a car or on a bus/coach. The plastic bags, bottles, big mac packets parked up in the gutters and grass verges in good ol' 'clean, green' NZ is nowt short of a national disgrace (I'm really into the rant thing now, eh?). That's something we can change.
There aren't enough people who query and challenge these dangerous assumptions - and that's because the social 'climate' isn't right (although I believe the pendulum is swinging back) and it's simply too easy to accept the latest trend. For every doomsayer, there'll be one (only less vocal, cos it ain't fashionable) that says it isn't so.
I'm more than happy to do my bit if someone can objectively and conclusively prove it to me...
Originally Posted by Manxman
Pffft. Wind the clock back however far you like and there will always have been comments that the world is overstocked with humans.
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