let's face it, time is not on our side
we've bred and spread so much that the planet can barely support us. the ecosystem is becoming increasingly fucked up. despite recycling, pollution is still a major problem and our food is a finite resource.
we are screwed.
unless, that is, the human race as a whole can learn to share, curb its excesses, ignore greedy urges and clean up after itself in a sensible way. simplistic perhaps, but it'd at least give us a chance.
but how likely is that? we're mostly territorial, aggressive, greedy creatures who will hoard what we have and prefer to let it spoil rather than give it away to others who have less. i've come to the conclusion that, some time in the next 50-60 years, there's going to be a mass global cry of "oh, why didn't we do something sooner?" as the entire planet goes terminally tits up.
if the only thing that can save us is cooperation, we are so dead.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:12, 6 replies)

Making fewer babies might be something worth thinking about as well.

(Haywood Manley, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:20, closed)

very true
i don't mind the practice runs, but i'm not having any kids
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:22, closed)

Forcible sterilisation of the morally impure is a good one too.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:51, closed)

As a species, we need to deal with both individual overconsumption *and* overpopulation.
A few fatties can ruin it for us just as badly as a lot of poor emaciated bastards.
(EvilTerran rearranged his letters on, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:42, closed)

Another release of Ebola
will be all we need to free up some landmass. The impoverished are easily expendable, and never make too much fuss.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:34, closed)

i currently favour the soylent green approach

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:46, closed)

I'd buy it.

( Karpati Footnote Never knowingly interesting, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 22:08, closed)

me too

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 18:50, closed)

And we can pen the survivors into ever-shrinking enclosures and force them to live in the stone age.
It'll be even better if we can come up with a scientific justification for it and get some academic yes-men to fabricate the evidence.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:47, closed)

I could just go
for a hot cup of soma.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 19:18, closed)

Christ. Why do you wannabe suicides feel the need to bore everybody with your excuses and self-pity?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:37, closed)

suicide? not likely
i intend to sit up front and enjoy the ride
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:45, closed)

Fuck off. No hippies in the front seats.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:51, closed)

vegetable rights and peace!

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:55, closed)

Food *is* finite, thats the problem.
(tyrellsOwl, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 8:17, closed)

food being finite is more of a solution
People will breed less if it means starvation.
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 14:05, closed)

Well, it is and it isn't.
The amount of food present at any given time is finite, but growing at least linearly and, over time, the amount of food produced will approach infinity.
The problems with starvation have not much to do with the amount of food on the planet and everything to do with greed and ignorance. In "The West" starvation is caused by brain-dead support systems and widespread ignorance and in places like African by profiteers and criminals.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 14:21, closed)

that's what i meant

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 18:51, closed)

I wouldn't worry about the earth too much
We will be long gone before we cause any long term damage. Take your pick what will wipe us out but i'd take asteroid, or next big disease. The meek really will inherit the earth. there was a brilliant programme called life after humans on the discovery channel and it's amazing how quickly any trace of us would be gone, with a few exceptions like Mount Rushmore.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 14:38, closed)

i saw that show
it was brilliant
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 18:50, closed)

If we ended livestock farming, we could easily feed the current population and cut out a lot of the pollution
Livestock farming uses up to 10 times more land than growing crops for human consumption.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:28, closed)

We should cross the cow with a Manatee and breed an actual sea cow
Then we could have the land and still get beefs from the ocean.
(LemonMeringuePie is rubbish at thinking up user names, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 13:58, closed)