Humans are Plague on Earth - Attenborough
 

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I have to say I agree with him 100%. For most of my adult life I've believed that we need to curb our population otherwise nature will do it for us. Its just a shame that we're likely to destroy much of the planet/environment before we eventually learn, if we ever learn. Its all so very tragic.

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The Earth is a self correcting system. The Earth will go on and so will life, but if we don't change then it will be the end for us.


EDIT:
Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box

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I don't worry about any of this stuff, Jeremy Clarkson has all the answers and he'll see us through. :rolleyes:

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Well you can't argue with that really.....

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/01/61.jpg

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Cats. Cats will take over the world. :erm:

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Obviously my views lean towards the spiritual but even on those terms as well as evolutionary, we are vastly over-inflating our own importance on the planet. We are only the (self-imposed) dominant species because God/nature/whatever-you-believe-in allows us to be.

A good example is the weather. We may think we're awesome enough to get a Short Circuit-type robot on another planet but all it takes is for nature to slightly alter the Gulf Stream to give us the chaos that the rain caused last year.

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Cats with opposable thumbs.

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What we need is some form of human culling.
it's just deciding who to start with.

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If you believe you are a plague, feel free to stamp yourself out. ;)

I subscribe to the Christian belief that the human race was put on Earth to tend and keep it, and it is our failure to be faithful to that command that causes problems for our planet, not the mere fact of our existence.

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Our brains! :D

But yes controlling the climate is a step too far for us at the moment. Ultimately even if we manage in reign in the earth and manage nature we'll still face the prospect of the sun burning out.

We need to colonise other planets!!

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And l gather you are going to put yourself forward as the first volunteer.;)

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Anyone who isn't meek?

No culling required, just need to start venturing into the solar system, that's why we have projects to mars.. So eventually we can colonise mars and the moon.

Just needs doing sooner rather than later... Lots of species are threatened and nobody learns, whales, tigers etc

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We don't need to go even that far. There's still vast capacity here on Earth. I'm surprised to hear Attenborough blaming overpopulation in Ethiopia for famine, for example. That's thinly-disguised 19th-century Malthusian nonsense. Ethiopia's population density is considerably lower than, say, the UK or France. What it lacks is not breathing space, but the technology and infrastructure to sustain itself. Time and time again, wherever in the modern world a society has become developed, it has overturned Malthus' prediction that population would outstrip agricultural production, resulting in famine and death.

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We were killing right from the very start. God, we even killed Jesus of all men.

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I was going to give you £50 to get the ball rolling :)

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I think we should give them a break. they've already got the British government on their backs.