Are we due another war?

Very controversial, I know, but can the world really support any more people? It's predicted that in 2050 the world will have to sustain 9 billion people. Can the planet really cope with all this strain on its natural resources?
How do you think we can cope? War? Educate the Western world to stop eating excessively?
Discuss.

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No.

Eh. I don't see what eradicating Europe would achieve, the real problem is all these other countries with massive populations that are developing and taking on increasingly 'western' lifestyles.

Reply 3

Mr Einstein

Original post by concubine

Eh. I don't see what eradicating Europe would achieve, the real problem is all these other countries with massive populations that are developing and taking on increasingly 'western' lifestyles.

Lol

Edit: Seriously does no one else find the level of ignorance on show hilarious?

The problem is people aspiring and achieving the level of comfort probably everyone who has negged me has? Not the western lifestyle in its self?

Obviously only some populations can live comfortably and in excess right? When everyone starts to gain wealth and fuel their greed, they are the problem! Not the people who have been fueling their greed for an age! The world can only sustain limited amounts of greed right? and I mean it sustained ours first so they are the problem. Everything was dandy when they were poor.

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Reply 4

username902265

Wow, a 'controversial' thread with hardly any comments and no negs for the OP, it's a miracle!

Edit: yeah, well there were none :smile:

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Reply 5

NuckingFut

Original post by 3mm@

Wow, a 'controversial' thread with hardly any comments and no negs for the OP, it's a miracle!

Its only been six minutes since the OP :colone:

Reply 6

michaelhaych

You need to google "Ester Boserup"

Reply 7

MeGusta

Original post by concubine

Eh. I don't see what eradicating Europe would achieve, the real problem is all these other countries with massive populations that are developing and taking on increasingly 'western' lifestyles.

I don't mean a nuclear war. Maybe just killing a few million, I don't want to sound inhumane, but I don't see any other option. The birth control programme worked to some extent in China but wasn't really a success. If we all ate the daily intake of an average African then the worlds resources would be more evenly balanced across countries, but I don't see that happening with the McDonald's generation.

Reply 8

TheRustaman

[video="youtube;9lD8gey7HYI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lD8gey7HYI[/video]

:rock:

Reply 9

MeGusta

Original post by NuckingFut

Its only been six minutes since the OP :colone:

lol I prepared myself for the onslaught of negs to come my way :biggrin:

Reply 10

Martyn*

They've been thinking about it for decades.

Reply 11

NuckingFut

Original post by MeGusta

lol I prepared myself for the onslaught of negs to come my way :biggrin:

Well it wasnt me

Reply 12

MeGusta

Original post by michaelhaych

You need to google "Ester Boserup"

Very interesting!

Reply 13

No Man

It's bound to happen soon.

Reply 14

michaelhaych

Original post by MeGusta

Do you know that there has always been enough food to go around, it's just that the majority is in the possession of the most developed nations.

Also, the populations of these nations are generally decreasing, fertility rates are plummeting through the developed world.

As demand for food increases methods of farming will become more efficient. Genetically Modified Golden Rice has been used to provide the world's poorest with a plentiful source of Vitamin A which they would otherwise be lacking; irrigation systems have been used to create huge farms in areas of desert.

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Reply 15

ANARCHY__

Original post by MeGusta

Very interesting!

Population levels do not exceed Earth's resources and production capability.

Reply 16

Cannotbelieveit

China and India are the problem, take them out of the equation and the world is cut of almost 3 billion people.

I'm not saying we should nuke them or attack them btw.

Reply 17

Spaz Man

We're the first generation to enter an age of never-ending war perpetrated by international terrorism and endless unmanned drone operations.

We will never know true peace.

Reply 18

michaelhaych

Original post by Spaz Man

We're the first generation to enter an age of never-ending war perpetrated by international terrorism and endless unmanned drone operations.

We will never know true peace.

have a day off.