Author Topic: Earth 2100 (Read 8869 times)

B E C K · « **on:** Jun 04, 2009, 12:30:46 AM »

Anyone watch this thing? I just happened to catch it the other day. When it got to the part about overpopulation, all I kept thinking about were of the damn people popping out kid after kid. A nice couple with two or three kids (or ppl like that guy with, like, a dozen adopted kids) is all right, but then there are these degenerates churning out mutant after mutant. Or that freak with the 21 kids! Couldn't they sterilize him after the tenth one or something? Shit.

I couldn't help myself every time this one old guy came on. I kept thinking, "what do you care, you'll be gone long before 2050, let alone 2100."

Rama · « **Reply #1 on:** Jun 04, 2009, 01:20:14 AM »

I'm actually a firm believer that a couple shouldn't have more then two kids. That way you are only replaceing yourself for when you die. Anything more adds to the population. And if you only have one kid...then you are actually turning two people into one. If everyone did that and the next generation did that. You'd start to see a population decline.

And then you got those Quiver full fucks. They just keep having kids and people just keep doing stories about them and giving them houses and basicly rewarding them for something they shouldn't be rewarded for. They don't need free diapers for life. They need to be smacked across the nose with a rolled up newspaper and told "NO!"

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #2 on:** Jun 04, 2009, 07:57:07 PM »

My personal stipulation on childbearing is, have only as many children as you can afford to raise. And not affording them by getting TV deals that exploit them.

B E C K · « **Reply #3 on:** Jun 05, 2009, 03:14:00 AM »

That shit really irks me. It's child abuse.

I'm really sick of all of the poor trash that keep multiplying. They need to be stopped.

The people with their IVF piss me off, too. There was this couple on The Doctors the other day and after going on and on about their "miracle baby" (w/o IVF mind you) decided they wanted to give him/her a brother or sister. Don't be so damn greedy, you already got your miracle. How many miracles are you entitled to here? Why don't you go adopt and give some kid a miracle instead of trying to get one for yourselves. [They were advised that given the wife's condition, they would need IVF. Immediately after this answer they asked if they couldn't use acupuncture or herbal remedies instead. FTW.]

Back to the Earth 2100 thing, it also mentioned making a barrier to protect New York. Would that really be any cheaper and less time consuming that just steadily moving the city inland and to higher ground?

Rama · « **Reply #4 on:** Jun 05, 2009, 10:11:25 PM »

But then they wouldn't live in Manhattan anymore and it would be hard to act like they are better then everyone else.

B E C K · « **Reply #5 on:** Jun 06, 2009, 02:36:00 AM »

I'm sure they can act better than everyone else anywhere they live.

Rama · « **Reply #6 on:** Jun 08, 2009, 12:32:33 AM »

They can try...but It's something about being on an Island. Maybe they can just dig a moat around Buffalo.

Derrick · « **Reply #7 on:** Jun 08, 2009, 07:42:01 PM »

Every human living right now can fit on some small islands off of Britain. We'll be fine, especially once India and China start warring.

http://www.ampneycrucis.f9.co.uk/PARK/Population.htm

Rama · « **Reply #8 on:** Jun 08, 2009, 09:45:01 PM »

It would help if someone leveled China...but then where would we get our posioned toys....or pretty much everything else we use?

Derrick · « **Reply #9 on:** Jun 08, 2009, 10:59:12 PM »

I chose not to buy a Haier a/c (which was cheaper but not energy star nor had the same BTUs) and opted for a more expensive, powerful, and energystar frigidiere a/c... and the fucker is made in China, probably in the same factory as the Haier. No wonder we're on our way out.

B E C K · « **Reply #10 on:** Jun 10, 2009, 10:14:40 AM »

What is the likelihood of some mofo trying to re-create dinosaurs like in Jurassic Park succeeding? And then they start taking over and eating a bunch of us.

Derrick · « **Reply #11 on:** Jun 10, 2009, 10:41:44 AM »

Very small, and it would never happen in China.

Rama · « **Reply #12 on:** Jun 10, 2009, 01:55:33 PM »

What if we do a good old Super Powers "Let's see who can make Man-Eating Dinosaurs first to prove we are better then the other guy" type Cold War thing?

B E C K · « **Reply #13 on:** Jun 10, 2009, 02:09:03 PM »

That would be awesome.

Quote from: Derrick on Jun 10, 2009, 10:41:44 AM

Very small, and it would never happen in China.

Boo! Come on, they could have those little straw hats and attack us with chopsticks and fans.

Rama · « **Reply #14 on:** Jun 11, 2009, 12:53:12 AM »

Don't you know it sister.

B E C K · « **Reply #15 on:** Jun 11, 2009, 10:01:04 PM »

And Rosie O'Donnell can attempt to translate for them before getting eaten horribly.

"Ching ching chong-- AAARGH!!!"

Rama · « **Reply #16 on:** Jun 11, 2009, 11:43:43 PM »

I'm not seeing a downside.

B E C K · « **Reply #17 on:** Jun 11, 2009, 11:52:50 PM »

I know, right?

Derrick · « **Reply #18 on:** Jun 12, 2009, 06:07:07 AM »

No, just no.

Rama · « **Reply #19 on:** Jun 12, 2009, 12:08:12 PM »

You're just an ManeatingDinocist! I, for one, am offended by your bigotry!

B E C K · « **Reply #20 on:** Jun 13, 2009, 12:45:52 AM »

Dinosaurs deserve to marry like everyone else!

Derrick · « **Reply #21 on:** Jun 13, 2009, 06:35:12 PM »

Hell no. It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and a fucking velicoraptor.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #22 on:** Jun 13, 2009, 07:29:57 PM »

I don't know. Watching Jurassic Park those things had a lot of personality....

Derrick · « **Reply #23 on:** Jun 13, 2009, 08:25:14 PM »

And I thought I beat off to wierd shit.

B E C K · « **Reply #24 on:** Jun 14, 2009, 04:02:14 AM »

God created Adam and created Velociraptor out of Adam's rib.

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 13, 2009, 07:29:57 PM

I don't know. Watching Jurassic Park those things had a lot of personality....

That's right! Beauty is on the inside!

Rama · « **Reply #25 on:** Jun 15, 2009, 01:18:49 AM »

As is the Lawyer.

The D · « **Reply #26 on:** Jun 26, 2009, 03:23:26 PM »

Quote from: Derrick on Jun 08, 2009, 07:42:01 PM

Every human living right now can fit on some small islands off of Britain. We'll be fine, especially once India and China start warring.

http://www.ampneycrucis.f9.co.uk/PARK/Population.htm

That's the physical space that each human occupies. You still need large tracts of land to grow the food to feed 6 billion people, plus the resources to harvest that food, the billions of gallons of water a year to give them to drink, the massive amounts of coal and oil and other energy sources that that 6 billion people consume a year. And with more and more countries becoming industrialized that means they require even more food and energy and fuel than before.

It's not just about the physical space people occupy but the space it takes to store and grow everything that keeps those people alive year after year. If it takes 10 acres a year to feed a man, then it would take 60 billion acres to feed everyone, and that's a lot of rainforest to mow down.

Derrick · « **Reply #27 on:** Jun 26, 2009, 03:34:46 PM »

A majority of the Earth isn't properly used. Look at Siberia, incredibly fertile and ripe for massive greenhouses to churn out trillions of tons of food.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #28 on:** Jun 26, 2009, 09:07:51 PM »

If you want to get down to liveable, the entire population could fit within the boundaries of Texas and maintain a population density equal to that of New York City. The rest of the world can be manned by robots who'd grow food and mine resources for human consumption.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #29 on:** Jun 27, 2009, 05:36:52 AM »

If you had been here when 150,000 Katrina evacuees came in at once with very few places to house them and seen what happens when too many people have too little space indefinitely, you might not be wanting to cram everyone into Texas. $:-\$