“I was born in the early 1970s. This means in my lifetime the number of people on Earth has doubled, while the size of wild animal populations has been reduced by 60%. Humanity has swung a wrecking ball through the biosphere.”
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’”Oh, I think we’re heading towards 3°C at least,” he said. “But what about the many millions of people directly threatened,” I went on. He gave a sigh. “They will die.”’https://theconversation.com/climate-change-weve-created-a-civilisation-hell-bent-on-destroying-itself-im-terrified-writes-earth-scientist-113055?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app …
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“The most effective guard against climate breakdown may not be technological, but a fundamental reimagining of what constitutes a good life on this planet. ... So far our response to the challenge of climate change exposes a fundamental failure of collective imagination.”
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I look at population projections and wonder whether the real problem may turn out to be, not population growth, but a rapid, catastrophic, decline in population numbers. Maybe in 2100 there will be, not +- 10 bn people but less than a billion.
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Have you written anything on this? It sounds like you mean because of demographic changes rather than a mass die off?
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1. Tried to edit this to a single tweet. Failed. “I was born in the early 1970s. This means in my lifetime the number of people on Earth has doubled, while the size of wild animal populations has been reduced by 60%. Humanity has swung a wrecking ball through the biosphere.”
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2. “We’ve chopped down ½ of world’s rain forests & by the middle of this century there may not be much more than ¼ left. [With this] has been a massive loss in biodiversity…the biosphere may be entering one of the great mass extinction events in the history of life on Earth.”
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This is amazing.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I was born in 1970. I remember reading science fiction and science on overpopulation as a kid. OF COURSE there will be a huge human dieoff. It's the biggest instance of denial that so few people realize or accept this.
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The people who will die are the ones with the lowest carbon footprint
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