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Friday, September 15, 2017
planetary ICU
A planet with 10 billion human beings on it? A planet on life support, in the Solar System's ICU.
http://below2c.org/2017/07/world-ten-billion-people-not-turn-well/
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
land degradation
'Pressures on global land resources are now greater than ever, as a rapidly increasing population coupled with rising levels of consumption is placing ever-larger demands on the world’s land-based natural capital, warns a new United Nations report. Consumption of the earth’s natural reserves has doubled in the last 30 years, with a third of the planet’s land now severely degraded.'
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
mexico city
Mexico City. As of 2014, the population of Greater Mexico City was 25.4 million (Wikipedia), but who's counting? You're telling me this is normal?
Friday, July 28, 2017
survive and reproduce
Now there is some study claiming that the best thing people can do for the enviroment is not to have children:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children
No, it depends who the people are. The kind of people who care about the environment are precisely the people who should be reproducing-- the intelligent, educated people, rather than the religious fanatics and the welfare idiots. We are in a demographic race with those two groups, and it is a race we are losing.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children
No, it depends who the people are. The kind of people who care about the environment are precisely the people who should be reproducing-- the intelligent, educated people, rather than the religious fanatics and the welfare idiots. We are in a demographic race with those two groups, and it is a race we are losing.
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