Scientists Say A Terrifying Population Correction Is Coming Soon

[IIVI]

Nature will find a way.

Remember how thin of a layer our atmosphere and crust is compared to this planet.

Take the distance from the ground to the clouds and multiply it by about 5000 - that's how wide our planet it and how narrow our livable area is.

We're literally a trivial issue to deal with.

Not to mention one stupid mistake to the earth's atmosphere and we're finished while the universe moves on.

 

[Neuromancer]

Did we have this problem before corporations?

 

[BlackJesus]

As if we didn't have enough to worry about between the spooky and downright unsettling rise of artificial intelligence and global warming, scientists are now warning that the Earth's population is getting out of control. This shouldn't necessarily come as a surprise as it's not exactly new news, but population ecologist William Rees of the University of British Columbia in Canada (as per ScienceAlert) is now coming forward to say that there may be a dire need for a population correction. As terrifying as it sounds, the move could point to extreme consequences over the next few decades.

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In his study, Rees found that how humankind is growing is unstable to maintain the world around us, with the number of resources dwindling with each birth. Because of this, a population correction may be our only hope for survival. A process that the researcher sees happening before the end of the century, the idea is that it would slow down the density of people around the globe and give the planet time to bounce back.

Should we not take advantage of this scientific study and its findings, taking a population correction into our own hands, Rees warns that there may be a civilizational collapse on the way. Essentially, if we don't do the work and take the steps and sacrifices necessary to turn things around, the Earth will do it for us.

While we often hear the phrase "only the strong survive," in this case, it would more likely be the societies with the most wealth and resources who would come out of this population correction swinging.

The examples of how we as humans have taken the globe for granted and drained it of its natural resources are all around us as wildfires tear through Maui, our water resources dwindle, the rainforest becomes less and less, and fossil fuels take up a big part of the global warming conversation.

Rees also points to humanity's ability to only see things in the short-term rather than looking at the broader picture for how our choices today affect our tomorrow. With all this in mind, it's not hard to understand why we may be headed toward a population correction during this century.

Also known for our consumerist tendencies and continued push for capitalism, Rees says that how we've fueled these urges is through overspending and overuse of the world's natural resources. As the number of people on the planet continues to increase, the price of goods will only go up, making the possibility of a population correction only more probable by the day.



As for our hope to combat population correction, there's still a chance that those tools found in artificial intelligence and other pieces of technology will be able to save humankind as they stand at the forefront of climate change and food production. A lesson in coming together and being led by our common threads, the study points out that one of the major chances of survival comes from working together. Otherwise, the likelihood of war, food shortages, and other breakdowns in our ecosystem will set us on a track to change the world for the worse over the next century.

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MSN

You do realize the malthusians have been saying this for hundreds of years? It still hasn’t happened. The only thing that might cause it is climate change fukking up crops and weather patterns not population growth.

The earth could probably hold 10x more people. Hell most of the US is sparsely populated except the coastlines

 

[Claudex]

The population should be brought down. But a "scientist" calling for a "population correction" () is part of the problem. I nominate that dude to be the first to be "corrected".

I can understand the wealthy saying that.

I'll never understand the not wealthy saying that.

The reason poverty/hunger/disease exists is due to a crazy misallocation of resources. The planet can handle 10 billion people easy if nobody is exceedingly rich and if production/service has clear purpose in a humanitarian level.

People talk about overpopulation but vast swats of lands are uninhabited (while having owners), thousands if not millions of buildings and apartments are empty because some construction company needs to make a profit. Meanwhile the homeless are there, starving.

From an article: Globally, we waste one billion tons of food annually, according to UN Environment Programme (UNEP). In the US, around 40% of all food is wasted—with 66 billion pounds consisting of commercial leftover food waste.

Clearly there's too much waste in the every government and several industries to accurately state that there's an issue with overpopulation. The only common thread amongst all these governments is human greed.

If only one person eats well and even throws away food in a house with ten people then there's no way that the conclusion should be to kill the remaining 9.

 

[MMS]

I love how the "experts" and these articles always point the finger at the common individual. Our consumerism. Our fossil fuel use. How we have ravaged the environment.



But they never want to speak on social engineering and the people at the top with agendas. Nikka I didn't ask for them to tear down the rainforest to grow palm oil and the nikkas that buy palm oil probably didn't either.

Anything to keep the spotlight off of the truly greedy profiteers at the top who don't care about sustainability or even their customers, but only revenue.

Also, why can't the "experts" agree? Are we headed for a population collapse due to lack of reproduction? Or are we overpopulated?

OR are we just too populated with the kinds of people that the experts don't like?

Cause that's what I gather. They need the cacs to get more action but they need the Indians to go.

another thought is that they are paid to do exactly what they are doing

and the scientists are either paid by government grants or state grants

so their findings are always influenced by whoever is paying the bills...

 

[Bryan Danielson]

COVID wasn’t enough?

Yo man….. I about to say the same damn thing?


Like for real? Do we really need something more than Covid? Cuz that shyt took a BUNCH of folk out


Like what is the magic number these niccas looking for, for the balance needed?

 

[I Really Mean It]

worry over overpopulation is a deflection. there aren’t too many people on the planet, and anyone saying that deserves a sideeye.

resources aren’t being properly allocated, hoarded by a tiny minority of elites in the global north, whose wealth is derived from the exploitation of the growing masses in the global south.

deal with that before you start discussing ways to cull the herd.

 

[voiture]

I don't see how this planet can sustain the billions of people it has in the long term. Resources are not infinite. At some point something will have to give.

 

[Cat piss martini]

The Building blocks for mass
Extinction are stacked.

Disease: Covid was a pre-cursor that was studied.
ameriKKKans fought treatment and containment.
something with a faster and more potent death
rate would be the perfect storm for these idiots.

Aliens: It's the new norm and nobody seems
to think it's something to worry about.
I believe that what we've seen for decades
were drones.
drones are used to watch/collect data/expose vulnerability.
They are no longer hiding and the thing that should keep
us up at night is......why??

A.I: We have created something smarter than we
are and gave it access/control over every facet of
our very being.
The day A.I see us as the real threat we are doomed.


Nature: Global warming is light work.
The Poles are gonna shift!
The planet rotate at roughly 1000 mph.
Imagine the planet stopping but the wind
and water keep spinning at 1000 mphs.
nothing would stand and enter a new ice age.


We will soon see a great veil lifted and witness
the TRUTH in all of it's apocalyptic horror.

 

[doublejump]

COVID wasn’t enough?

If you drive then nope !

 

[the elastic]

You do realize the malthusians have been saying this for hundreds of years?

Never heard the term "malthusian" til today, honestly

 

[Chrishaune]

They are about to try to kill ya'll off.


Black people, wake up.

 

[African Peasant]

Forecast and predict is not the same. Global warming wasn't predicted it was observed and forecast, just an example.

The effects of over population can be forecast and reducing birthrate more then killing people is an effective way cap the damage. I get the issue with the messenger but the message isn't his alone. Basically we won't have to wait long to see this shyt play out so debates aside enjoy the ride.

There is no model that can give an accurate prediction of the demographic evolution of the planet for the next 80 years. There is no consensus among scientists of the field themselves. For instance, you have other studies claiming that the world population will stabilize itself around 2100. So, in their perspective, the so-called 'correction' will be automatic.

You do realize the malthusians have been saying this for hundreds of years? It still hasn’t happened. The only thing that might cause it is climate change fukking up crops and weather patterns not population growth.

The earth could probably hold 10x more people. Hell most of the US is sparsely populated except the coastlines

yep. This is neo-malthusianist doomsday talk.

 

[Vandelay]

I can understand the wealthy saying that.

I'll never understand the not wealthy saying that.

The reason poverty/hunger/disease exists is due to a crazy misallocation of resources. The planet can handle 10 billion people easy if nobody is exceedingly rich and if production/service has clear purpose in a humanitarian level.

People talk about overpopulation but vast swats of lands are uninhabited (while having owners), thousands if not millions of buildings and apartments are empty because some construction company needs to make a profit. Meanwhile the homeless are there, starving.

From an article: Globally, we waste one billion tons of food annually, according to UN Environment Programme (UNEP). In the US, around 40% of all food is wasted—with 66 billion pounds consisting of commercial leftover food waste.

Clearly there's too much waste in the every government and several industries to accurately state that there's an issue with overpopulation. The only common thread amongst all these governments is human greed.

If only one person eats well and even throws away food in a house with ten people then there's no way that the conclusion should be to kill the remaining 9.

This is an overly simplistic analysis.

Liveable space has never been the issue. It's management of systems within a liveable and logistically efficient space. Waste, environmental, pathogenic, social order, etc...

Most food that gets thrown away largely gets thrown away because it expires before it can be consumed. It can't be consumed by more needy people because the logistical, societal, and industrial systems aren't built up in large parts of the world to support the movement of food to those places. We can argue WHY those systems aren't in place, but it's not due in large part to misallocation of resources by the elite.

These arguments don't make any sense unless you're trying to throw a religious connotation over it, and if that's your argument then I guess we have nothing further to talk about. Corporations DON'T want to throw food out, they would love to find a market to sell unused stock even if it was at a STEEP discount, because it's a loss at that point (it doesn't totally get written off a tax write-off). I know this because I used to work in logistics and supply chain losses for one of the biggest food companies in the world.

Furthermore, capitalism is a system based on perpetual growth so it would be antithetical to purposely kill off large parts of the consumer base because then the system would collapse on itself. We see this happening in China where built too many houses and now the country is starting to experience deflation.

The world eventually can support more people, but we currently don't have the technology, infrastructure, or societal cohesion in place to support more people.

 

[boogers]

mother nature will correct itself.. thats why you see more gay people now, i think. were all part of the earth.