bigbadberry3 wrote:
The pessimist and optimist in me agree, our population has surpassed the natural carrying capacity of this planet.
Agreed.
What does this mean? Famine and war will deplete the population.
Even though the strawfire of shale oil makes ppl think fossil fuel loss is no danger, but actually those tend to burn out much faster than conventional sources and in 15 yrs we'll be back where we started before the so called "shale revolution".
Many so called- "Major shale plays" have given only 2-3% of their predicted yield.
Since fossil fuel is EVERYTHING, food, transport, refrigeration, clothes EVERYTHING,.... even
if water where not an issue at all (and we know it is) , even
if the planets arable land were were stable ( and we know its in rapid decline) just the absence of cheap fossil fuel by itself can and will kill billions.
One more reason to fortify your own blood line by having as many children as possible so if 2/3rds of them die there are still some left to carry on the blood line.
Limiting your children is counter productive and will make the struggle for survival for your offspring so much more difficult.
Non feminism poisoned populations have it much easier as their normal birthrates allow them to lose much higher percentatages of offspring in survival struggles and still have viable communities left.