BF2S Forums How Do You Think The Earth Will Do?

CameronPoe wrote:

Move to the moon.

PuckMercury wrote:

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Personally, not terribly well over all.  Malthusian Theory is more applicable than it's given credit for.

sergeriver wrote:

PuckMercury wrote:

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Personally, not terribly well over all.  Malthusian Theory is more applicable than it's given credit for.

I think Malthus Theories on population and the resources scarcity are applicable.

Stingray24 wrote:

Yes, we humans are evil and a cancer to mother earth!  We must be stopped!  Down with humans!    Natural resources are here to be used.  Using conservation techniques effectively will replace the resources we use.  The picture isn’t as bleak as you paint it. 

Population?  With all the abortions happening, we won't have to worry about a population explosion.  Less babies, less adults.  And when we start euthanizing elderly folks because we think they're inconvenient, we'll further reduce the population.  For those left, improving technology will bring more efficient ways to grow food sources.  As long as there is still McDonald and Burger King there’s no reason to worry there’s not enough food.  Those places will disappear if there is a food crisis. 

Endangered species?  Yes, we'll save them, for the time being.  We have a habit of saving them and then overprotecting them.  Then overpopulation kills them off because of disease. 

Water scarcity?  The population will not outgrow our water supply. The quantity of water on Earth is static - 326 million cubic miles. One cubic mile contains 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) gallons of water.  About 70 percent of Earths surface is covered by water.  Ninety-seven percent of Earth's water is in oceans. The remaining three percent is freshwater. http://www.dcr.state.va.us/sw/amznstuf.htm  3% of 326 comes to 9.78.  So by those calculations, we have almost 10 trillion gallons of fresh water on earth.  I’m not too worried we’re going to run out.  The earth’s natural water cycle keeps us supplied.  Another interesting fact from the site above: Eighty-five percent of the water in the atmosphere (water vapor) evaporates from our oceans. Plant transpiration also adds water to the air. Most trees give off about 70 gallons of water a day. One acre of corn gives off 4,000 gallons per day. 

Energy demand?  Yes, we can provide enough energy to an increasing population without damaging the environment.  Work is being done to develop renewable energy sources, though right now the cost is too prohibitive to use them in a widespread manner.  In the mean time, nuclear power is working just fine.  If the EPA would let us build more nuclear plants, this wouldn’t even be a consideration.

Pollution?  The earth is more resilient than most people believe.  One volcano does more damage than all the cars on earth, yet the earth’s ecology has not been destroyed.  It’s estimated that farm animals produce 20 times more waste than we humans do, taken from the link above. 

Global warming?  What a joke.  The scientists pushing that hype are just trying to get more federal grant money.  Warming and cooling is a natural cycle on earth.  We humans simply don't live long enough to witness a long enough period of time to get a proper perspective on the earth cycle of temperature changes.  It boils down to a lot of bs by environmentalists that is based on emotion, not facts.

sergeriver wrote:

At the actual population growth rate, human activities threaten the future of Earth.
In the last century humans had polluted or over-exploited most ecosystems on which life depends.
The major issues that Earth is challenging now are:
-Population increase rate is higher every year: How can limited resources feed all the people?
-Endangered species: can we save them?  Or there will be another massive extinction?
-Water scarcity: as population grows, the use of clean water grows, how do we solve this issue?
-Energy Demand: How can we provide enough energy to an increasing population without damaging the environment?
-Pollution: in a planet that's more polluted everyday, how can we get fresh air, food and clean water?
-Global Warming: How do we stop higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and who knows what unpredictable weather issues like another Ice Age?
What can be done to reverse all the above?

Stingray24 wrote:

Population?  With all the abortions happening, we won't have to worry about a population explosion.

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Wrong.  It's not just about greenhouse gasses and air pollution.  The chemicals we use everywhere are polluting the ground and the oceans.  With this contamination we are also contaminating the part of the Earth's eco system that would naturally filter water to make it clean.  We are overfishing the earth's oceans and killing off the plant life that creates the bulk of the oxygen generated on this planet.

I can't tell you how many times I have read in the paper that fresh water fish are not to be eaten out of certain streams and resevoirs because of contamination with things like mercury.  If the fish are contaminated, then the water is contaminated, as is much of the immediate eco system.

HeavyMetalDave wrote:

Earth wont DO anything, she'll be just fine.

Its mankind that that will fade away, just like the dinosaurs.

Earths only fear is either colliding with the sun, or into another marble floating around it.

No matter what WE do, earth doesnt care, she'll just keep on spinnin round and round and round and .....

Have a nice day.

PuckMercury wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

PuckMercury wrote:

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=36334

Personally, not terribly well over all.  Malthusian Theory is more applicable than it's given credit for.

I think Malthus Theories on population and the resources scarcity are applicable.

wasn't directed at you but toward people at large.  Clearly if you're posting this, you buy into the theory whether you know it by that theory or not.

Stingray24 wrote:

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Wrong.  It's not just about greenhouse gasses and air pollution.  The chemicals we use everywhere are polluting the ground and the oceans.  With this contamination we are also contaminating the part of the Earth's eco system that would naturally filter water to make it clean.  We are overfishing the earth's oceans and killing off the plant life that creates the bulk of the oxygen generated on this planet.

I can't tell you how many times I have read in the paper that fresh water fish are not to be eaten out of certain streams and reservoirs because of contamination with things like mercury.  If the fish are contaminated, then the water is contaminated, as is much of the immediate eco system.

We dumped the whole Exxon Valdez into the ocean and it recovered.  It did require a lot of work on our part to achieve the cleanup, but nature did the rest.  There are stacks of laws in place to regulate companies and how they effect the environment.   We certainly need to punish companies that willfully dump harmful things into the ecosystem, but I still say the seriousness of the situation is overblown.  Again, we don't give the earth enough credit for how resilient it is.  Nature compensates time and time again.  I don't think we could contaminate the whole earth if we tried.