Scientist Predicts Brutal Population Correction

Knight

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"Humanity is exhibiting the characteristic dynamics of a one-off population boom-bust cycle," Rees writes.

"The global economy will inevitably contract and humanity will suffer a major population ‘correction’ in this century."

It's not just humanity on the line. Earlier this year, Stanford biologist Tony Barnosky warned that the world is facing the worst global mass extinction episode since the dinosaurs.

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Simply put, us humans are putting major stress on a world that only has so much to offer.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...1&cvid=e4e89e064edd4a39b9feb4eee302654e&ei=36

That offer has a predicted expiration or at least a best guess https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/how-long-fossil-fuels-last-43432/

Oil the most needed not a happy prospect for children being born now.

Not many of those massive farm vehicles run on coal.
 

Although the planet human population may taper off sooner and at lower levels than forecast decades ago, even now there are already multiple times too many of we humans for the planet's health such that other species are increasingly going extinct and environments are being permanently destroyed. By time environmental, especially atmospheric and ocean life conditions become desperate, there won't be ways to reverse our damage.

The majority of humans haves are too selfish to consider future generations as a reason to be satisfied with less. On a planet with myriad independent governments, it only takes a few powerful selfish ones to negate actions of considerate ones. Trying to stop humans from procreating like rabbits, especially those have-nots in third world countries is impossible. Trying to stop people from voluntarily eating pleasurable food like beef that is destroying forests is futile.

A family existence without children grates strongly against natural human behaviors. Powerful economic entities of Wall Street and Western powers and their powerful political powers have little interest in considering futures beyond their current situations, much less their lifetimes. Christian religions don't have answers to change their 2 millennia of dogma pushing procreation. Economic powers leverage those attitudes to obscure their own selfish actions.

My expectation has been when situations become desperate and intractable enough that some will use CRISPR gene editing technology to create a virus that will be far far worse than COVID-19. Powerful economic leisure and travel industries will use the same selfish COVID-19 pandemic strategies to continue to allow world wide travel regardless of how virulent whatever disease starts until it is too late.

The same conspiracy entities will make sure that happens as they have already laid down the groundwork to make sure such happens. Scientist cannot themselves convince dominant world masses of science ignorant earth monkeys otherwise while manipulative selfish economic elites point elsewhere.

I do speculate there is a strong probability the Earth is a galactic zoo monitored by Ultimate Intelligent Entities that are not little green men but rather ancient at least mostly non-organics. At some point they may be forced to take care of the "monkey" problem that they doubtless have hoped to avoid.
 
Knight said:
"Humanity is exhibiting the characteristic dynamics of a one-off population boom-bust cycle," Rees writes.

"The global economy will inevitably contract and humanity will suffer a major population ‘correction’ in this century."

It's not just humanity on the line. Earlier this year, Stanford biologist Tony Barnosky warned that the world is facing the worst global mass extinction episode since the dinosaurs.

Boom and Bust
Simply put, us humans are putting major stress on a world that only has so much to offer.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...1&cvid=e4e89e064edd4a39b9feb4eee302654e&ei=36

That offer has a predicted expiration or at least a best guess https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/how-long-fossil-fuels-last-43432/

Oil the most needed not a happy prospect for children being born now.

Not many of those massive farm vehicles run on coal.
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I don't usually believe everything that is written. These are predictions, and history has shown that predictions don't always come true. Given that, at our age, we may not be around when the "correction" occurs, if it does occur. I hope that technology may help humans survive in the future.
 
palides2021 said:
I don't usually believe everything that is written. These are predictions, and history has shown that predictions don't always come true. Given that, at our age, we may not be around when the "correction" occurs, if it does occur. I hope that technology may help humans survive in the future.
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I agree that predictions aren't fact, that time & proof positive are what we humans can deal with. And ever hopeful that a solution will change the inevitable years from now.

Considering the quantity of humans consuming resources & the ever increasing population HOPE is nice but at some point action will be needed. Stuff of science fiction now but, I've recently come to consider space exploration is about finding another planet that has a real possibility for sustaining human life.
 
Most recent studies have indicated that the maximum "sustainable" human population is about 5 billion. We are already over 8 billion. Most of these predictions don't take Robotics, Automation, and now, AI into consideration. The day is fast approaching when a major share of the population will Not be able to find ways to support themselves.

When, not If, the day arrives where the half that still have jobs are paying huge taxes to support the half on welfare, we will see a conflict unlike anything ever experienced. I suspect that by mid-century, our societies will begin to "collapse", and a person will have to wield a shotgun just to go to the grocery store.
 
Can you imagine what the human population would be if there were no wars, diseases, and crimes? I always thought that wars and viruses like Covid, were some greater power or creators way of culling the human population. Even so, things like the Holocaust should never have happened. Another reason why I have always been Pro Choice. Do we need every single human to be born?
 
palides2021 said:
I don't usually believe everything that is written. These are predictions, and history has shown that predictions don't always come true. Given that, at our age, we may not be around when the "correction" occurs, if it does occur. I hope that technology may help humans survive in the future.
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Agreed. Quite often things don't change that much until they have to. Most Americans spend countless dollars watering their lawns, and flowers instead of using that space and resource for growing vegetables to eat. Just think of how much food could be produced with just that one change.
 
Humans are parasites and the earth is our host. Eventually the parasites kill the host or the host kills the parasites.

On the bright side with the upcoming mass extinction and the decline in US males life expectancy I'm going to stop worrying about planning for Required Minimum Distributions, it's looking like I won't reach 72.
 
I'm assuming these researchers used computer modeling to make their "prediction".

Results of computer modeling depend on how accurate the scientific model used to create the simulation is to begin with, how accurate the data input is, and whether or not the researchers can predict an event that could effect the results...like predicting how long fossil fuels will last when you can't take into account the discovery of an as yet unknown energy source or that technology will advance beyond even requiring mined and man-made energy sources. And no one can predict that.

I wish they'd use the word "hypothesize" instead of "predict".
 
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