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crabbyob

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so true
« on: Jan 09, 2021, 06:03:51 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: Jan 09, 2021, 06:40:44 PM »
So true.. Blessed with such a beautiful world we've done little but abuse it and selfishly use it up.. I'm as guilty as the next person.
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« Reply #2 on: Jan 09, 2021, 06:46:24 PM »
The world would probably be a better place if we hadn't arrived in the first place.

Of course, we don't know what would have replaced us.
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« Reply #3 on: Jan 10, 2021, 05:35:37 AM »
I read it and it is so true !   I often thought we abused the poor Planet we live on !  Are we learning the lesson ?  Hope so.  I miss the family and grandchildren's visit so much !  :'( gmx

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« Reply #4 on: Jan 10, 2021, 05:44:54 AM »
It's easy to say that we are abusing the planet - and it is true. Bit more difficult to work out what to do about it. The big problem is the sheer number of us. As I have said before, when my father was born in 1903 there were slightly under one billion of us. Now there are over seven billion and there is no common sense expectation of the picture changing. Why should it? All species, not just us, have an inbuilt drive to reproduce.
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« Reply #5 on: Jan 10, 2021, 09:55:20 AM »
and if your father hadnt had two world wars how many more might their be?   :o :o :o
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« Reply #6 on: Jan 10, 2021, 11:39:57 AM »
Obviously more still, but it is surprising just how quick the losses in WW2 - I haven't checked WW1 - all 60 million, were made up. Must try and look it up again - I was amazed at just how quickly the population became greater than in 1939
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« Reply #7 on: Jan 10, 2021, 12:26:33 PM »
and then came 'THE PILL' just how grateful should we all be for that discovery?
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« Reply #8 on: Jan 10, 2021, 01:59:43 PM »
and then came 'THE PILL' just how grateful should we all be for that discovery?
It hasn’t stopped the population rising, although without it, heaven knows where we would be
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« Reply #9 on: Jan 10, 2021, 02:10:02 PM »
It hasn’t stopped the population rising, although without it, heaven knows where we would be
Mike

Eventually like all 'overfull' entities, overload will result in catastrophe as finite resources are exhausted and the human race is culled by it's own proclivity to mindless excess.
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« Reply #10 on: Jan 10, 2021, 02:58:20 PM »
I do wonder, from time to time, just how much of a population with which the planet can cope before every thing breaks down
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« Reply #11 on: Jan 10, 2021, 03:01:04 PM »
quite simply we need baby rationing as per chairman Mao
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« Reply #12 on: Jan 10, 2021, 03:17:13 PM »
Well.
, that didn’t actually work. There are more Chinese now than when the diktat was imposed
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« Reply #13 on: Jan 10, 2021, 03:20:29 PM »
Oh, and Covid-19 isn’t the answer. The preproductive generation are scarcely affected
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« Reply #14 on: Jan 10, 2021, 03:29:10 PM »
Castrate at birth is a solution.... :D :D :D Only joking..... :'( gmx   I love the answers to this idea..... :D Looking forward to read them.....Have fun !

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