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Op-Ed OverPopulation: No Problem: Malthus Debunked

kallipolis said:
Official Chinese Government policy limits the size of families to one child.....it's not working.....just imagine trying to cater for an ageing population with such severe restrictions placed on family size....even, well organised Germany is encouraging immigration of young people to compensate for low (German) population growth.....
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The Chinese policy is a family of three.
 
kallipolis said:
As long as the one child per couple policy continues the future prosperity of China will be compromised, and China's ageing population will have insufficient younger people to assist them....who will make the mobile telephones for Apple Inc. with insufficient children being born to guarantee China's future prosperity and well being?
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The one-child policy was instituted to save the future prosperity of China.

As for who will make the telephones, that would be the same people who make Tesla's cars: robots.

That works domestically, too. Half of the chores I do around the house could be done by robots. Two-thirds of the activities providing care for the people at the local retirement 'communities' could be done by robots. I'm not talking science fiction, either; I'm talking about robots already in existence that mow lawns, wash buildings, clean floors, and deliver meals.
 
^^^ I actually have a RF lawn mower. If I were clever, I'm sure a program could be written to govern it from my computer.
 
Alnitak said:
Biology does.
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kallipolis said:
Only when your political ideology presumes to make so.
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Alnitak is right, and ideology has nothing to do with it. In every biology course I took, input/output was assumed, and all study was directed at the internal functioning of the organism. The only time input was mentioned was in the effects of reduced input on the individual organism itself. In botany, the effects of poor soil on a plant were examined, but never with reference to neighboring plants or any animals that might be impacted -- those issues belong to ecology.

The flip is true as well: ecology never examined the internal workings of an organism, it merely took for granted that they worked. A lack of food wasn't a matter of what that did to the individual organism, but of what results the general lack of food in a population had on the population's behavior, and what that behavior did to the system.

Consider organisms as boxes: biology is concerned with what happens inside the boxes, while ecology is concerned with how the boxes play together.
 
Alnitak said:
^^^ I actually have a RF lawn mower. If I were clever, I'm sure a program could be written to govern it from my computer.
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They're getting smarter. I think it was Top Gear that talked about one that can tell the difference between grass and bark dust, gravel, and other surfaces, and respond accordingly, so you don't have to tell it where the flower bed starts and can put in a new gravel or stone path and not worry about it trying to mow them. The unit can just be put on your lawn and turned loose; the only thing it has to be taught is where your lawn ends and the neighbor's begins if there's no barrier. They even talked about one that can distinguish weeds from grass, and deliver a shot of weed killer!

I want one that will also scoop up dog poop and take it along with grass clippings to the compost bin. :D
 
If it's any consolation..most of those 7 billion people are probably going to die when we run out of the materials to make the chemical fertilizers that made 7 billion people possible in the first place..
 
Oh. I'm not sure you should compost dog poop if it will wind up in either a vegetable garden, or a lawn where people frolic in bare feet for example. In fact I'm sure you should not, unless you are willing to invest in a compost thermometer and fuss around monitoring the temperature to ensure that it consistently reaches the appropriate temperature for killing pathogens. I can't be bothered to be quite that fussy.
 
It's not even just about the capacity of technology to be more efficient at creating food. It's possible for unrestricted human activities going on right now to create catastrophic collapses within the ecology for many things we directly rely on and have nothing to do with what you pick up in the grocery store to eat.

For example, I presume everyone here is familiar with what is happening to the animal represented by my avatar due to human commercial mass-overfishing of things like tuna and many other fish. When shark populations drop to the point where they no longer sufficiently control the prolific numbers of predators lower on the food chain--- dolphins, octopus, squid, sea lions, seals and many other animals--- those animals eat more of the already depleted fish.
 
A question for people who support more population growth.

Is it better to live in a nice house with 3 people in it or 20+ people in it ?
 
And then those predators numbers would eventually outstrip their food supply and, unless they found some sort of new food, their numbers would start taking a nosedive. Which would probably allow the prey species numbers to increase again and support a larger number of predators. Except humans would still be out and about fishing..so..uhh..nuts to that idea?
 
Overthere said:
And then those predators numbers would eventually outstrip their food supply and, unless they found some sort of new food, their numbers would start taking a nosedive. Which would probably allow the prey species numbers to increase again and support a larger number of predators. Except humans would still be out and about fishing..so..uhh..nuts to that idea?
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There is also a lot of interplay between many marine species and kelp. Kelp produces an incredible amount of surface oxygen. Even if we could somehow guarantee that the core things humans want out of the sea would remain available, other side effects of ecological domino effect in the ocean as a result of human commercial activities are pretty potentially devastating.
 
Telstra said:
A question for people who support more population growth.
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There are tremendous benefits to increased population growth, if it can be done ethically.

Imagine the access to human capital if we had 50 billion people living comfortably without insecurities of any kind. We could do incredible things and live better than we do already. We should work towards securing the necessary infrastructure and technology to handle the coming generations; they will become larger than we could ever have imagined.

Is it better to live in a nice house with 3 people in it or 20+ people in it ?
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Well are you talking about a mansion or a cottage?
 
Telstra said:
^ a normal house suitable for 3 people.
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"Suitable for three people" is awash with your cultural assumptions based on your country of origin, what the population density is like in the place where you grew up, etc.

What's "suitable" for three people in rural Australia vs. what is "suitable" for a family of 3 in Japan will be two radically different things. You'd probably call the latter "unsuitable" but that's just an arbitrary subjective opinion from you because you are used to something different.
 
Well if you used to live in a non slump area, you don't want to live in a slump area do you ?
 
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