Over-Population (?)

[GatoFiero]

I think I'll break with my normal policy and post in a debate section.

I don't really think there's an overpopulation problem so much as an inefficient resource usage problem.

But if you really want to target “overpopulation,” then I supposed I could kill off a few billion people. *thinks for a second* Yea, I guess I really would do that if it were necessary. Of course, it would be billions of other people. I’d probably start with the Middle East, then move down through Africa, and finish off in western Asia.

That. Is. Beautiful.

But, seriously, if I had to choose on what places to whipe out...I'd start with the most populated places on earth... And then I'd stopped when there was a couple hundred humans left that I could stand.

And we'd be the last humans left! ::laughs maniacally::

But, seriously, the real issue is renewable energy sources.

[Psrdirector]

We can easly destroy the planet. What makes you think that the planet can survive as a livable enviorment? Nothing animals have ever done is as damadging or detrimental as what we have done to the enviorment. Animals do miner damadge that can eventually be repaired, we do things that can not be in any sort of time, even on a globle scale. The things we have taken out of the world is nearly all that was placed in this world since it was created. Last i cheacked an otter didnt remove large masses of the earth that could not be replaced.
What makes you think we are no diffrent then any other animal

[GatoFiero]

Hey, I didn't even want to target overpopulation but you people made me! You can deal with the massive environmental damage caused by my solution.

How can we curb ever growing population growth rates?

Oh that's easy, and I know a way we can do that AND help with world hunger! Eat the babies! We get more food and lose the overpopulation!

[Psrdirector]

Originally Posted by Cyclone231

Oh that's easy, and I know a way we can do that AND help with world hunger! Eat the babies! We get more food and lose the overpopulation!

That is the answer, it has been so obvios. Yes we must do that

Aw man! ::Cracking up laughing:: That's fucking incredible!

On a serious note... No matter what we do to the world, Psr, it can fix itself. And nothing but humans has a use for oil and coal -- in fact, it KILLS other animals. Why would they want something like that renewed?

As for obliterating the atmosphere... It can be fixed -- given that we don't fuck it up more. Point in case: if we fuck it up enough so that we all die, within enough time it will fix itself. There is nothing we can do that would be ir-reparable for the planet. Lest we drill a hole straight into the earth's core and detonate every explosive device ever created by man at one time.

That might count for something.

Until then, no matter what we do, it can be fixed with time. (Oh, and a million years in the shade of at least 4 billion is not a whole lot of time)

[Dark Black]

*sigh* You didn't read my post. Life fucking *started* on Earth while it was a barren wasteland. All the oxygen (and therefore water) was locked underground in rocks, and the only gas on the surface was carbon dioxide (with other trace elements). Humans could damage the Earth, oh so very easily, but it wouldn't really matter. They wouldn't be destroying atoms (that's impossible) so everything would still be here. It would just take a while to come back. But come back it would, so long as there were cells and bacteria (and cells and bacteria can live in almost *any* environment). Life has been around for very little time. If it mostly died, it wouldn't be a major setback. There have already been 3 major extinctions in the past, and life has pulled though.
Oh, and who cares about other animals? They lost the evolutionary race, they can't complain if they die. All creatures must adapt to new environments. If there was an ice-age (and trust me, ice-ages are worse than anything humans could possible do, and ice-ages will happen again) nobody would be there to try and help them.

PS - Babies taste awful. Trust me on this, I know...

[Psrdirector]

We dont need to destroy atoms to kill off a planet, change there form and change what ion they are.
And we have already removed tons of animals and plants from the planet that will never come back. The water and stuff wasnt below the earth, they were created by fungas, yes those little things that grow on rocks. Yeah, the earth isnt a magic thing tha cant create life from nothing, large amounts of radiation will take longer to go away then the entire time the earth has been inhabited.
We are leaches, we take everything from the earth destroying what took billions of years to creat in a few decades, years, mothes, hours, or even secounds. Oh and for your info, us and russia hace enough nucks to vipe the earth out about 6 times over(not sure exat amount of times) so it wouldnt need all we got and not a drill to the center of the earth

[Krylo]

Oh and for your info, us and russia hace enough nucks to vipe the earth out about 6 times over(not sure exat amount of times) so it wouldnt need all we got and not a drill to the center of the earth

Bacteria and cockroaches would survive, as would many creatures in the deep sea. In a few million years they'd evolve. A few million more and they might even develop sentience.

The earth has been around for about 4.5 billion years. That means the millions of years it would take for life to re-evolve to where it is today wouldn't even be half of the earth's life. That's IF we were to do everything in our human power to destroy it.

In that time the 'chunks of the earth' we tore out would also be replenshied. Why do you think they call coal and oil fossil fuels? They're made out of old old old dead things. There'd be lots of really old dead things by then. Like us.

Yeah, the earth isnt a magic thing tha cant create life from nothing, large amounts of radiation will take longer to go away then the entire time the earth has been inhabited.

The atmosphere was created by life. Life that was created while the earth was being irradiated by the sun. And that radiation would go away a long long long time before you're thinking it would. The earth has been inhabited for 3,800,000,000 years. That's 3.8 BILLION years. My memory may be a bit faulty, but I know it doesn't take even one million years for radiation to dissipate back down to livable levels.

Oh that's easy, and I know a way we can do that AND help with world hunger! Eat the babies! We get more food and lose the overpopulation!

Thank you Johnathon Swift.

Actually on topic: Others have already said it. Our only limiting resource is oil, but we have alternative power sources already set up. Our only real problem is the plastics we make from it... but even that can be solved easily enough through recycling old plastics and making things out of non-plastic materials when possible.