View Single Post
Old 10-18-2011, 05:53 AM   #20 (permalink)
Arragonis
The PRC.
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Elsewhere.
Posts: 5,304
Thanks: 285
Thanked 536 Times in 384 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
If we are agreed that resources are finite, and that an increasing human population tends to consume these resources at a greater rate, then we can conclude that population will be controlled by available resources.

Population can be controlled by disease, famine, war, natural disaster, or by limiting pregnancy (to name just a few). Most every means of limiting population is generally disagreeable. We have very few options that can be considered more agreeable, and within our control.
This is the bit I want to get to know about, are there solutions ?

Quote:
Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
Peak oil is a certainty...
Its an opinion, and a valid one.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum (Click for Wikipedia link)
My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.
__________________
[I]So long and thanks for all the fish.[/I]
  Reply With Quote