Humans are plague on Earth - Page 8

On January 25 2013 01:59 Shival wrote:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

Read. Overall, human population growth is slowing.

On January 25 2013 02:38 FuzzyJAM wrote:
This kind of sensationalist nonsense pisses me off because it not only makes zero sense, it actually makes it harder to argue for proper environmental care as it sets up an easy strawman to demolish when real issues come up.

Disappointed, Sir Attenborough. Disappointed indeed.

On January 25 2013 02:43 radscorpion9 wrote:
The first thing that struck me is that he making a very general statement about all of humanity which isn't true. There are many people who try to live in harmony with their environment and make sustainable choices. But I doubt Attenborough meant to speak in such a technically accurate way, so he probably knows this. He just seems to be going for a roughly true, somewhat bombastic statement that expresses his anger at how the human race has exploited the Earth over the last few decades, without heeding environmental warnings. In essence he's a bit angry, and he's saying things which aren't technically accurate.

The second part of his statement is basic logic. I don't think quoting him should really reveal anything new (except to some people who may be ignorant of this issue entirely). I do wonder how bad climate change will be though. It seems like lately the scientists are giving some pretty bad warnings, about how it will be worse than they thought in terms of the frequency and size of natural disasters. Maybe its a little callous...but I am kind of excited. I wonder what this new world will be like? I am imagining a future dystopia where we live underground, and poke outside once in a while to rummage through our wrecked cities for scrap. And I would be a sentry at one of the underground cities, occasionally taking out a bandit and picking through his weapons for something useful. It sounds so cool in my imagination, probably not so much in reality.

On January 25 2013 00:12 BadAim wrote:




This is sad and true at the same time.

On January 25 2013 02:38 JustPassingBy wrote:
On that thought, am I the only one thought of a skin disease, when he/she looked at a picture of the earth at night, with the human cities forming bright dots everywhere?
(e.g. http://latimesphoto.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/la-1206-nasa02.jpg)

On January 24 2013 23:49 GrimmJ wrote:
People are having fewer and fewer children, so eventually this will all balance out.

-32 C Here, so a little cold. Typical Canadian weather.

On January 25 2013 03:10 fluidin wrote:
man, we sure like to talk about how much of a big shot we are on earth, eh?

i wonder what more advanced species would think of us