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It won't happen in practice because the technologies to solve the problems are guided by how much a money a company will make. It will never correlate to the technology humans really need especially if it is something like feeding everyone without the big companies making billions.
Oh, so now we can't talk about cross-border issues? Didn't you post a thread about the father in Toronto, who was interrogated by police after his young daughter drew a picture of a gun while at school?
I would suggest stepping out of that plane...as some other posts here have done, and take a look around at water availability and soil erosion and depletion, then ask how many people can survive on a barren landscape? Remember, it wasn't the cold that killed most of the exiles that Stalin sent to Siberia in the 1930's. They didn't have to be locked up....just being out in that Northern boreal forest, where game and edible plants were scarce, was enough for the majority to die of starvation, even out there in all that land!
That's a good point to underline, because as another post noted that we are presently using over half the world's available land surface for agriculture (farming and grazing livestock), we have no idea how much land is needed for enough of the plants and animals necessary to keep the Earth's biosphere functioning. I know...the oceans play a big role also in processing wastes, sequestering excess carbon, and replenishing atmospheric oxygen levels etc., but a lot goes on in the soil that is necessary to maintain our extremely large human population, and we have no idea how big the non-agriculture, non-urban environment has to be to keep everything running smoothly! Since it's not running smoothly now, I think it's a safe presumption that we are past a few tipping points already. A book I read recently - written in 20007 by James Lovelock, makes the point that the more forests and tall grasslands get cut down or burned out and replaced with farming, the less the planet has for the purpose of absorbing carbon. Agriculture is carbon-intensive...especially the way it is practiced post-WWII, but the present world population is already likely too large to go back to the old ways my father did it -- with crop rotation and pasturing livestock as part of that rotation. Today's farming...even in most third world countries, is planting monocultured plantations of Monsanto hybrid seeds, and feeding them oil-based fertilizers to provide the necessary yields....especially as the soil becomes burned out and depleted. There is a point of diminishing returns for all this "Green Revolution" agriculture, and we may have already reached that point. And yields will gradually decline, even not including droughts, heat waves and flood damage.
You might want to check out another depressing book I got: The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality by Richard Heinberg. He goes into detail about subjects that are very poorly covered, and are already having an enormous economic and environmental impact, like the one you mentioned -- declining non-renewable resources. It's not just oil, or easy to access oil that's running out. So is everything else, from gold to iron to copper and zinc, to rare earth elements like Neodymium; and the problem is that as they decline, the ore grades are increasingly reduced.....so, as the years go on, more and more rock has to be excavated to get at the iron, copper and gold that's needed, and a lot more energy is needed in smelting, as well as a lot more piles of earth that is often contaminated with mercury, is left behind from the mining and milling operations. So, I guess it's back to the caves for the survivors of this century!
Sounds like you're projecting again! Where did you get the idea I was angry just because I called you on making a statement that sounded suspiciously like butt out of U.S. issues that don't pertain to Canada. You didn't explain the wide open spaces point. But, now that you have, most of Canada is sparsely settled for very good reasons -- because of climate and geography. Once we move north and cross into the very old segment of continental plate called the Canadian Shield, we find a region with virtually no soil and decaying plant and animal matter that piles up in to bogs called muskeg, that would have rotted, except for the fact that winter up till now would last over half the year.... 9 or 10 months out of the year north of the 60th parallel. Even with our present conditions of global warming, the northern boreal forests and muskeg swamps do not have a soil base to support any sort of conventional agriculture to support populations that might start fleeing north in a few decades to escape what's going on and will get worse down where you live.
You make it sound like a bad thing.
Yeah, that's why it's a bad thing....not enough caves!
I get a broken link when I try to click on it. Regardless, I'm pretty sure it would be some sort of satire site. I remember the Howard The Duck comic strip back in the 70's, ran a series about a nihilistic terrorist group that had created a doomsday device for this purpose. The serious population-reduction groups that I've noticed want rapid population decline to something that could be a permanent human population. It's the multitudes living in denial today that are the real voluntary human extinction movement.Here's an organization those who would like to do something about the population to join,..but count me out...
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
I believe so.
Yes and they teach them to be YECs.
Young earth creationists.