Like I said LukeP, I am sorry, but your passion over worry for the future is misplaced.
Again, you misunderstand... This issue isn't my passion. It's just common sense.
I wouldn't normally be 'passionate' about such a topic, and my heart isn't pumping any harder when I enter this type of thread than when I read about the latest google search engine Algo changes... It just sounds to me like you're trying to argue that the world is flat and I'm trying to help you see the real shape.
You underestimate the human capacity for innovation and adaptation.
And you have too much faith in humanity. And you are likely overestimating the Worldwide educational system advancements it would take to combat this problem.
One simple advancement, say in providing unlimited energy, will change the dynamic on its head.
1. You call that simple?
2. No, it wouldn't. Some of us wouldn't run out of energy, granted, but the world's still going to overpopulate fast.
How about the ability to make food? One advancement where a super pill gives all the nutrition and calories we need and there goes the problem.
1. You call that simple?
2. No, it wouldn't, more food means more overpopulation.
3. No, it wouldn't, distribution is still bottlenecked by dictators and corporations. See 5 posts up.
One advancement where a material is made with some of the unlimited energy mentioned above and then disappears after use eliminates much of the toxic waste etc.
1. You call that simple? That's nothing short of star trek beaming tech!
2. And now you're stacking 2 tech miracles together.
3. And that still doesn't stop all the overpopluation, it just gives them more places to live.
The market, driven by the mind of those that are rewarded by the market, will address any growth problem as it happens. These academics assume everyone is a real troll, on the public dole, and they do not account for the greatest powers on earth, the human mind and the human will.
What was that? All I heard was "Faith faith faith faith faith and jesus saves..."
The video is crap. Humans, driven by that all powerful self interest, will survive without issue.
The video showing you factual arithmetic is crap? Wow. Did you really watch it?
Do you also believe that 5x5=10? Sounds like you do. Really, the answer is 25. That's how math rolls, yo.
Your argument over education is BS also. You are looking to the masses and their crap education.
Um, YEAH, the ones doing all the breeding, which is our point here...
You hear the word education on this issue and you keep thinking of it in terms of how it only takes a few to invent the saving tech you want to see created one day.
But our point, and the point relevant to that film, is that you should be more worried in what the AVERAGE education out there is, because it's the Masses overpopulating this planet, not just the top scientists.
At least they are getting some education. The fact is that the people that are educated in the top universities are far more able than any of the masses.
And how many of these top-educated ppl are being produced in comparison to the other 7 billion?
Add to this the ability of our economy to reward those brilliant people that want to skirt education, (Jobs, Gates, Etc) the world will survive.
For the situation I fear happening there is no useful technology at all, none, ever, nada, could never be... It's not tech I'm worried about, it's 10 TRILLION people due to arrive too damn soon.
With godlike tech you may be able to feed them, clothe them, whatever else you want to do with them... But the bottom line is they'll be here, sharing these 57,511,026 square miles with your grandchildren.
But the world will truly be shitty, regardless, with that many people stuck in close quarters.
