Humans are a plague: David Attenborough

[Mech]

David Attenborough has contributed to this "plague" by having kids of his own. Why doesn't he just off himself? Help the environment! Mass suicide!!!! lol

On a serious note, nature will fix this on its own. We humans are but a blip in Earth's history. New species will emerge and inherit the earth after we are long gone. It's called evolution.

To be fair he only had 2 kids which makes it a zero population gain or loss and is what he advocates. With a 2 kid limit the population would ,in theory, go down a bit as well since you'd have those that would die from other causes or have no children. Honestly I just think the human race should aim for a world population no more than 2 billion and we'd find that things like renewable energy also become much more feasible with no concern whatsoever of running out of food or water and would have overabundance rather then only having our population numbers survive right now only because of our modern processing.

[Cybran]

Humans are not the problem. Consumers are.

[Shakari]

Didn't the Matrix make this point about us being a virus.

I agreed with it then and do think we need to stop overpopulating. The issue at hand is how to do it; would any of you want your friends/family not be allowed to pro-create.

Humans cannot stop one another from pro-creating which is extremely frustrating as there are one or two sections (not race or colour or creed or religion) of the population I would love to sterilise

The issue is not that we reproduce... its the fact we have no realistic natural predators at this point and where as other species have to live around what the local environment will support we don't we engineer the environment to suite us. Put those together and you get very low relative mortality rates compared with the birth rates plus we're living longer = gross population. We don't even have the same theats from diseases and infections as we used to and there getting less and less of a problem.


If the 3rd world contries had the same health care, and resources as all the other countries things would be even worse from the population point of view.

[Unholyvamp]

i am just gonna put this video right here

[Spectral]

i am just gonna put this video right here

It's interesting that with the right delivery, the same sentiment is the stuff of movie villiainry. Delivery it with an urbane manner and a British accent, and it sounds totally reasonable to people.

[Grizzly Willy]

humanity is absolutely a cause of irritation to me; I'd be happier if their numbers dove some 80%

Will you be the first in line?

[Wælcyrie]

Will you be the first in line?

Will you?

/char

[Grizzly Willy]

Will you?

/char

I'm not the one promoting it, so no. I won't.