F.D.R. wrote:
I have long believed that the world is grossly over populated which is the cause of most problems. Reduce the population and everything else falls into place via less demand for everything. The planet would finally begin to heal itself.
I feel that you are right about the overpopulation. And I am in favor of gently reducing the birth rate to drop it back to a reasonable population. So I would have to agree with the idea of making a large proportion of the population strile.
An experiment that has been tried with grasshoppers helps to understand the strain on a species as the population advances to overpopulation. The experiment started with 4 green grasshoppers living in a specific sized environment. They hopped around and lived a normal grasshopper life pattern. Then they added 4 more hoppers. No problem, they too lived comfortably. then 4 more, and 4 more, etc. untill the hopper population reached a breaking point, at which time the green hoppers turned brown and became locusts, fighting each other and eating everything, including each other, until there were only a few left alive.
But having lived in a smaller population world, (about 1/2 the world population of today) I do not remember it being less crazy. I think that we need to decrease the population dramatically before we reach a proper level.
This bothers me because if I am right the 95% reduction that the one worlders are aiming for would seem to be a reasonable base to aim for, and where does that leave my family and yours.
And even that drastic reduction may not work, considering that 92.2% of those making up the surviving 5% would not be true humans. The few true humans left would not be able to keep a world alive and functioning for human beings.
To understand that last statement, spend a little thought on the following...
Suppose that a very advanced, powerful THING from outer space came to earth and that it anounced to the people of the world that only true humans would be allowed to occupy the world; all the rest would be deported to another planet. How would you determine who was a true human? What characteristics would define a true uman?
You couldn't go by the fact that they can stand and walk on 2 feet. Many animals and all birds can do that.
You couldn't go by the configuration of their body, with 2 arms/hands, 2 legs and feet with a body in the middle and a head at one end. Practically all animals and many fish would fit that description.
You couldn't go by their ability to talk, or communicate. All animals do that. Even plants communicate.
There is only ONE CHARACTERISTIC that defines the true human. That is that they are able to think original thoughts...THEY ARE INVENTIVE!!! When a problem comes up they would find an answer.
But the children of the original True Humans would work out to 92.2% unable to think an original thought, and the poor little 7.8% of that generation that could think would have a task that would soon become insurmountable. Certainly in a very few generations, there would not be enough true humans to sustain the race.
Eventually the human race would perish on the earth.
Is the above scenario just nutty ravings? Or...........
Now where does that leave us? At least we wouldn't have to read the crap written by certain ?????s on this board.