Someone is getting it

[devonwoody]

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

 

[Max Power]

:shock: About another 100 people on the planet while I was looking at it

 

[nanscombe]

Rather like watching the light reaching us from the Sun except what you're seeing is the result of an event which happened 9 months ago rather than about 8 minutes. :?

 

[Max Power]

Forget global warming etc :roll: they pale into insignificance when considering the threat to the planet of those rising numbers :shock:

Note I said threat to the planet, not humanity, every other living organism is innocent in this coming catastrophe

 

[MMUK]

Note I said threat to the planet, not humanity, every other living organism is innocent in this coming catastrophe

Except politicians :mrgreen:

 

[Max Power]

At some point some form of control has to be put in place or 7 billion plus will become 9, 11, 13 billion :shock:
At what point does mass starvation on a previously unheard of scale kick-in, or will that be the control, certainly happens all the time with wildlife when their populations become unsustainable.

 

[RogerS]

Read Malthus

 

[Max Power]

Very interesting Roger, Id never heard of him before but he was pretty much saying 200 years ago what I've been thinking for years. Its a shame the countries with the unsustainable population growths don't take it on board

 

[RogerS]

That would include us as we do not grow or rear enough to feed ourselves.

 

[devonwoody]

That would include us as we do not grow or rear enough to feed ourselves.

Roger I got 57 lbs of runner beans, strawberries for three weeks, gave 30 cucumbers away and tomatoes for 6 weeks. Have not got land for more. We did our bit :wink:

 

[Max Power]

I seem to recall that Britain was capable of sustaining around twenty million. So our "official" population of over 60000000
is crazy .