tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5285294643571275498..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Earth Overshoot Day 2017The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-62149788659899185792017-06-07T16:10:58.017-07:002017-06-07T16:10:58.017-07:00Overpopulation talk by him?
He had asked for my co...Overpopulation talk by <b>him</b>?<br />He had asked for my comment...<br />A..nonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-25226382832674103782017-06-07T14:58:35.112-07:002017-06-07T14:58:35.112-07:00Anyong......I hear his message loud and clear.Anyong......I hear his message loud and clear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-36470952612456673922017-06-06T15:53:53.866-07:002017-06-06T15:53:53.866-07:00Yeah, I hear you. But still, it concentrates the m...Yeah, I hear you. But still, it concentrates the mind wonderfully. :-)Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-74147202174208637612017-06-06T14:08:41.205-07:002017-06-06T14:08:41.205-07:00Dana, I avoid McPherson's dire predictions as ...Dana, I avoid McPherson's dire predictions as much as possible. That's not to say hees, that w may not be right. I don't know. He could be in which case we're screwed and yet we keep making decisions for our future, how to live our livould be futile if he's correct.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-33325780568224287812017-06-06T12:30:41.148-07:002017-06-06T12:30:41.148-07:00"In the extremely unlikely event there is a h..."In the extremely unlikely event there is a human on Earth in ten years, that person will be hungry, thirsty, lonely, and bathing in ionizing radiation. Every day will be more tenuous than the day before, as is already the case for most organisms on this planet. Habitat for human animals will return in a few million years."<br /><br />http://weeklyhubris.com/faster-than-expected/<br />Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-2193084014864325602017-06-06T11:21:44.151-07:002017-06-06T11:21:44.151-07:00I'm not sure how many of us "get" th...I'm not sure how many of us "get" that, Toby. There is a minority that has some sense of what's happening but I think the majority still prefers to look the other way so as not to glance at the dead canary.<br /><br />To my mind, all signs point to the inescapable conclusion that we're witnessing an acceleration in our degraded ecological carrying capacity. Jared Diamond points out that civilizations that fail don't go out gradually but quite rapidly and at their zenith.<br /><br />Overshoot is primarily about over consumption but overpopulation and climate change are force multipliers that compound our dilemma. Yet the most we can get out of our political caste is a bare gestural response on climate change, promises to do something eventually.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43723898606644959962017-06-06T09:14:05.815-07:002017-06-06T09:14:05.815-07:00That lesson should be well understood by everyone ...That lesson should be well understood by everyone but hardly anyone understands it. The thing about population is that every time we save a life or extend a life or figure out how to increase fertility we make the problem worse. <br /><br />Mound, people our age have an historically unusual perspective on this as the world's population of humans has tripled in our life time. Tobynoreply@blogger.com