It’s not that the “world is getting worse.” There have been overpopulation problems for thousands of years now. Technically, when resources cannot support the amount of people, there is overpopulation. The current problem is that, once again in human history, we are seeing a potential period of population/resource ratio problems.
I’m not sure why some people are acting as if this is a “zombie apocalypse” or “rapture” claim. .[/quote]
The only difference is that this time we are everywhere. This is not easter island overpopulation but global overpopulation. There is no place to start again. It is not a once again in the human history.
Apocalypse or not I think it will start to suck in the future even for relatively privileged people like you and me. And that is why I will try to become auto-sufficient.
[quote]SLAINGE wrote:
Sometimes I think ‘some’ people feel comfortable being afraid. They need some sensational over the top bollox to believe in. Hiding out in the woods or building a nuclear bunker ‘just in case’ makes me wonder what else is going on in these peoples lives that drives them to such extremes?[/quote]
Lol don’t start making assumption like this or I will say that you are the one who is scared to consider reality as it is and the possibility that you might have to do something like I wrote in the future.
Mettahi makes several very good points, but just to expand- I really don’t think life will change very much for the wealthy. You’re just going to see a huge die-off of people that can’t afford food. Take the (obviously imperfect) example of the irish potato famine for instance; the problem was not that there was nothing to eat but potatoes in ireland, it was that nobody could afford anything else. Similar situation, only there are no potatoes and the poor just die. There will certainly be riots, probably be war… but I doubt it will get out of hand and I REALLY doubt it will happen in the first world. It will merely eliminate everyone who can’t feed themselves, leaving those who can (and tend to reproduce at a far lower rate). I don’t see it becoming a long-term (more than a couple decades) problem or ending civilization- merely all the displaced environmental pressure of the industrial period catching up to us.
[quote]SLAINGE wrote:
Sometimes I think ‘some’ people feel comfortable being afraid. They need some sensational over the top bollox to believe in. Hiding out in the woods or building a nuclear bunker ‘just in case’ makes me wonder what else is going on in these peoples lives that drives them to such extremes?[/quote]
Lol don’t start making assumption like this or I will say that you are the one who is scared to consider reality as it is and the possibility that you might have to do something like I wrote in the future.
That would be why you are attacking me like this.[/quote]
But he’s the one being optimistic instead of a guy who’s under 25 talking about the hard realities of death.
[quote]SLAINGE wrote:
Sometimes I think ‘some’ people feel comfortable being afraid. They need some sensational over the top bollox to believe in. Hiding out in the woods or building a nuclear bunker ‘just in case’ makes me wonder what else is going on in these peoples lives that drives them to such extremes?[/quote]
Lol don’t start making assumption like this or I will say that you are the one who is scared to consider reality as it is and the possibility that you might have to do something like I wrote in the future.
That would be why you are attacking me like this.[/quote]
But he’s the one being optimistic instead of a guy who’s under 25 talking about the hard realities of death.
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