Global Cooling

[dar512]

Bolding mine.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Climate change is always happening...and human beings survived it before without all the technology we have now.

Doesn't mean it was pleasant. Also doesn't mean we can survive the next one. We know more, but we also put a lot more stress on the planet these days.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by dar512

Bolding mine.

Doesn't mean it was pleasant. Also doesn't mean we can survive the next one. We know more, but we also put a lot more stress on the planet these days.

Life is not very pleasant for billions of people now.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Life is not very pleasant for billions of people now.

Is it any wonder? There are too damn many of us.

You know, before we learned how to exploit old dinosaurs and plankton for energy, there were manageable numbers of people on the planet. Once we started using coal and oil, we began overpopulating like crazy. Between about 1800 and 1930 the population doubled from around 1 billion to 2 billion people. About 40 years later it doubled again. About 25 years later it doubled again. (do you see a trend here?) http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/hist...ion-growth.htm

From 10,000 years ago to 1750 CE, population world-wide increased on average by about 67,000 people a year. By the 1990s, that many new babies were crowding onto the planet every seven hours. http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu.../keytheme1.htm

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

Is it any wonder? There are too damn many of us.

You know, before we learned how to exploit old dinosaurs and plankton for energy, there were manageable numbers of people on the planet. Once we started using coal and oil, we began overpopulating like crazy. Between about 1800 and 1930 the population doubled from around 1 billion to 2 billion people. About 40 years later it doubled again. About 25 years later it doubled again. (do you see a trend here?) http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/hist...ion-growth.htm

From 10,000 years ago to 1750 CE, population world-wide increased on average by about 67,000 people a year. By the 1990s, that many new babies were crowding onto the planet every seven hours. http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu.../keytheme1.htm

Yeah...it's those bloody catholics!