Earth population 'exceeds limits'

Teki187 · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:02

There are already too many people living on Planet Earth, according to one of most influential science advisors in the US government.

Nina Fedoroff told the BBC One Planet programme that humans had exceeded the Earth's "limits of sustainability".
Dr Fedoroff has been the science and technology advisor to the US secretary of state since 2007, initially working with Condoleezza Rice.

Under the new Obama administration, she now advises Hillary Clinton.
"We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people," Dr Fedoroff said, stressing the need for humans to become much better at managing "wild lands", and in particular water supplies.

Source - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7974995.stm

And people said i was crazy for thinking the higher powers wanted to reduce our population.

Duke · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:07

That was an April 1st joke (although not sure why it says 31st Mar on there).

Schnippzle · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:09

I think a culling of chavs might be in order.....

Richdog · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:09

Teki187 said:
Source - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7974995.stm

And people said i was crazy for thinking the higher powers wanted to reduce our population.

You're not crazy, just a complete and utter muppet. It's an April Fools joke.

Glaucus · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:12

and totally untrue, the plant can support many times more.

998cc · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:13

Feed the Chinese to the starving Africans, solve over population at the same time as world hunger.

LordSplodge · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:13

Rubbish. The Earth can support many, many more times what the population is now but it needs some serious changes to the way we live. For example eating meat would have to stop for starters...

Glaucus · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:15

LordSplodge said:
. For example eating meat would have to stop for starters...

Not at all. You just have to farm in a different way. Like vertical farms.

LordSplodge · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:23

AcidHell2 said:
Not at all. You just have to farm in a different way. Like vertical farms.

It's less to do with space and more to do with the amount of energy producing meat takes.

Glaucus · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:24

LordSplodge said:
It's less to do with space and more to do with the amount of energy producing meat takes.

Which isn't a problem. we have more than enough energy out there. We just don't use it as oil is to cheap to replace.

Richdog · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:25

Theoretically couldn't we 'grow' meat in vats in the form of mindless, quasi-alive lumps of flesh, engineered for max meat and minimum bone?

Mr-White · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:26

time to start terraforming

MW

Glaucus · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:27

Richdog said:
Theoretically couldn't we 'grow' meat in vats in the form of mindless, quasi-alive lumps of flesh, engineered for max meat and minimum bone?

I doubt it, not at the minute.

Sankari · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:28

AcidHell2 said:
I doubt it, not at the minute.

Then how do you explain the existence of Teki?

Richdog · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:29

Evangelion said:
Then how do you explain the existence of Teki?

How dare you insult quasi-alive, mindless lumps of meat.

rz30 · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:31

That is not the whole story, fact is that the earth is apparently losing 1 hectre or arable land every 7.6 sec mainly due to development and 3 people on average are being born every second.

http://tranquileye.com/clock/

http://www.farmland.org/Flash/appleEarth.html

MattandJet · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:34

I agree with the poster about a Chav Cull

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BlackDragon · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:41

Richdog said:
Theoretically couldn't we 'grow' meat in vats in the form of mindless, quasi-alive lumps of flesh, engineered for max meat and minimum bone?

You can, it was in NewScientist a while back. Although they are trying to make sure it is fit for consumption first.

Azza · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:48

Oh dear Teki!

geekyEd · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:57

wow inhumane! (and it would taste ****)