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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
It is going to be very hard, but we have NO CHOICE - if we are acting ethically.
You see, we are doing other terrible things, in addition to ruining the climate. We are also ruining the soil - dumping artificial fertilizers (made from natural gas) on the soil KILLS the life than made the soil. Even if we weren't facing a climate crisis - we would be facing a collapse of our factory farming.
But, of course we are facing a dire climate crisis - that is itself adding a huge pressure on our food supply. And we are poisoning our world, and killing off the pollinators. We have lost about 30% of all birds - who eat insects. We have lost about 70% of all the flying insects. We have lost about 50% of the plankton. We are losing fishing grounds.
We have dumped plastic everywhere. It is in the food chain.
We are overpumping aquifers. We are exhausting phosphorus mines.
We can expect A BILLION people to be displaced by climate effects in this century.
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All of those things have more to do with human population size than anything else. It seems a decline in our numbers is the inevitable solution to these problems, which I expect will happen mostly non-violently due to adoption of various technologies. Not in 10 years though. It will be a couple hundred years before population dwindles to say, half of current.
Based on nothing but speculation, I expect population to peak in 40 years.