for the record the Planent earth is no where near being over populated. All one has to do fly overhead and see the open land. Please overpopulation is a joke! one that Al Gore loves to spread around.
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Damn, beaten to the obvious "go live in the desert" retort, although personally, I was going to propose the geometric centre of the sahara.
And mike is also quite correct - does anyone happen to have figures on the average amount of land needed to provide adequate nutrition for a person, by the way? It's something I've often wondered.
All one has to do fly overhead and see the open land.
So? Ever heard of farmland? People have to eat something. And there are such things as deserts and barren land, too. Places where it would be difficult, if not impossible, for people to live, or at least for very many people to do so. Overpopulation isn't just a matter of how much land is filled up. We have to have certain resources in order for people to live, too. So please, get a clue.
6 billion people is little quantity to you?, and you hope to get out their homes and say hello, as if trying to be in Guiness record book for no good reason?. Please, be a troll.
It's not the space, moron, otherwise millions of people could live on the moon or in the Sahara. Population is limited by resources, most notably food produced by arable land.
Hullo beanheel,
I took the quiz, Damm! I take up 2 1/2 planets of resources, And I'm actualy trying to be efficient
I wonder how much this Ratigan twit takes up.
If he's that blind to reality, I would guess he takes up a hell of a lot more than 2 1/2.
A sensible person's mind:
1. Is the idea proven by evidence?
2. Can I make accurate predictions that come true with the idea?
If "no" to either one, the idea may not be true.
A fundie's mind:
1. Does the idea sound good to me?
2. Is it backed up by the Bible?
3. Is it free of implications I don't like?
4. Does my pastor like it?
If "no" to either one, disregard idea as evil liberal, anti-Christ propaganda.
Using the same line of 'reasoning', here's another handy tidbit.
Fish, don't exist. It's true! I flew over the ocean and all I had to do was look down where they are 'supposed' to be, and I didn't see one.
@ Brain_In_A_Jar
I believe that 1 acre of decent land will grow in a year all the food necessary to feed one person for one year. That is supposedly how the unit was defined, but unfortunately I don't know how well fed that person will be, or if it takes into account that the ground needs to be fallow every other year (so the food would only be growing on 1/2 the acre at a time, I think the acre was defined before crop rotation was invented.)
@beanheel (... what does that actually mean, by the way, if anything?)
That was interesting. We work out at 2.2 hectares (as opposed to the 5.3 usually used by the people over here, so not too horrifying): we need to reduce that to 1.8 at most. We'd need 1.2 planets if everyone lived like us. Still too many...
I normally like John Stossel, but he said something along these very lines, which really -gets- to me.
I respect the OP A LOT less than I do John Stossel, so I will not be 1/100 as kind in my description of his quote: You're a loon.
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