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6. With billions of people, we probably could

Reply to boomer55 (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 06:57 PM

Mar 2014

...even without the nuclear factor. If billions leave the degraded urban environment to go hunting for bushmeat, plus anything they can find that will make a crude fire, then there's essentially zero hope in such a scenario. Most ecosystems would be shredded to dust and sand.

Romanticizing the old days of people "getting back to the land" is foolish under these circumstances. There are too many of us to do that now.

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NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? [View all] dipsydoodle Mar 2014 OP

No surprises here. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2014 #1

Well I'll be gone. I think I lived during our golden years upaloopa Mar 2014 #2

Well, nobody promised that you'd like the "Change," now, did they?!?! blkmusclmachine Mar 2014 #3

Yeah except when we collapse this time we kill the planet boomer55 Mar 2014 #4

The planet is fully capable of looking after itself dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #5

Not that we're going to disappear anytime soon.....at least not due to AGW, anyway. nt AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #12

I don't agree boomer55 Mar 2014 #14

Earliest forms of life were over 3 billion years ago dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #17

Could be very interesting, really. Pity we won't be there to see it. nt bemildred Mar 2014 #19

Maybe whatever replaces us will have more sense. dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #20

One can hope. nt bemildred Mar 2014 #21

With billions of people, we probably could cprise Mar 2014 #6

If I've said it once I've said it a hundred times 4dsc Mar 2014 #7

Oswald Spengler - The Decline of the West bananas Mar 2014 #8

I agree, bvar22 Mar 2014 #9

its called exponential growth TimeToEvolve Mar 2014 #10

If this is what NASA's putting out these days.....I fear for their future.(Thanks GOP!) AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #11

It's an important part of the Drake Equation bananas Mar 2014 #15

There was no quantifiable reference to Drake that I could see. AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #18

Recommend jsr Mar 2014 #13

K & R. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2014 #16

As if anyone gives a shit. Redfairen Mar 2014 #22