[KMA]Avenger wrote:MEZZANINE wrote:Offtopic, but since you challenged it...
On over-population, that's no myth, scientists have warned for decades that our population was growing to large, the country with the highest single population has tried for decades to limit it's own population growth unilaterally, even the UN has now officially recognised that current population growth is unsustainable. We have more and more people with less and less resources every year.
To be frank the economic collapse you are always talking about is also linked, industrialisation means we need a lower labour force while our labour force is exploding in numbers, hence ever increasing unemployment to be subsidised by those in work and lower wages ( standard of living ) since it's an employers market.
I'm not even going to reply to ANY of that, such is the level of fallacy in everything you have said!
Back on topic...
I didnt want to spam another thread or divert it's focus onto a loosely related topic so I have split it off here.
This is the world population clock, rising every second
http://galen.metapath.org/popclk.html
This is nice simply graph of population growth showing the world population has doubled in the last 35 years
http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/expl ... +the+world
This simply graph shows that the amount of agricultural land has barely moved in the same time
http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/expl ... l=en&dl=en
In fact just look at the public data on as many stats as you can and say what you think it means
http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/over ... l=en&dl=en
Ive said it many times, continuous growth of any kind is unsustainable. In population this is clearly evident since we have finite land and resources, the fossil fuels we rely on and continue to burn in increasing quantities every year will run out this century. Some nations have alternatives available ( The UK could be self sufficient in wave & tidal if we had the will to do it ), but other nations simply couldnt even if they wanted to. Factory farming and GM specialist crops are already in use to produce enough food for us, but both are vulnerable, lack of natural mutation through variety makes factory farmed animals and specialist crops are more susceptible to disease. Climate change is making more land unusable while also allowing pests like insects to move into area's they couldnt previously inhabit. Worldwide housing shortages without the money ( and in many cases land ) to expand the infrastructure. Not enough jobs for the younger generation and even less in the future as people have to work to older ages................
We have to many people already yet amazingly we encourage people to have more children in some crazy pyramid scheme so the bottom ( youngest ) generation can pay for themselves and the generations above them. IMO the biggest example of Boom & Bust in history, and god help anyone alive when this bubble bursts.