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Oil Will Peak at $150-200 - Barron's Interview

Why not pro-act and reduce the birth rates through contraception and population planning? Why not head off the suffering instead of letting things and react?? I'm baffled as to why world leaders allow this to happen. We need a balance between man and his environment. We will eventually go too far and even technology will not bail us out.


On Jun 08 03:03 PM curious cat wrote:

> soilent breed, soilent greed, soilent green. don't sweat it, rbbartho.
> populations reach critical mass in countries and people die, either
> through war, famine, disease or gov't dictates.
>
> this grim aspect of growth is broken whenever some really smart persons
> discover methods to produce superfoods (like bread), refrigeration
> (tons of the world's food spoils before it can be eaten), storage
> (tons of food are consumed by pests and rodents), or crop yield improvements
> (through genetic manipulation, fertilization, pest controls and water
> or soil improvements).
>
> those discoveries make it possible for the population bubble to expand
> just when it seems the world has reached its tolerance level and
> during the next cycle more people survive. of course, that also means
> that more people die when we reach the upper support level of the
> next incremental improvement. never-the-less, the incentive for improvements
> comes from necessity, the mother of all invention. we would still
> be living in villages, if the process were interrupted. if kings
> had forced their peasants to stop breeding, progress would have been
> halted. we have to look at the bigger picture.
>
> someday, we will send people to the stars. when we get tired of being
> congested, here on earth, we'll develop a way to escape and seed
> the universe. that is our mandate. grow or die. you can't mourn the
> ones who die in the process from hunger, disease or war. their existence
> serves a higher purpose and ultimately, they will be so small in
> number when you compare them to the countless people who will be
> able to enjoy other planets because of their sacrifice.
>
> feel free to contribute by buying refrigeration stocks, fertilizer
> stocks, seed stocks or tech stocks. if you are really very smart,
> maybe you could work on the next generation of solutions yourself.
> we have to acknowlege that the "just say no" programs are insufficient.
> our history suggests that adversity is necessary to prod mankind
> forward. sometimes, that's a nagging spouse. sometimes, it's the
> perception that armegeddon is just around the corner.

Oil Will Peak at $150-200 - Barron's Interview

STOP THE BREEDING.
Eventually we will have curtailed demand. I child per family...MAX

Oil Will Peak at $150-200 - Barron's Interview

No one mentions the increase in world demand due to world population growth by 70 MILLION per year.

We need a population policy or we will outstrip supply of energy. These newcomers need food, water and energy.

Who will have the balls to mention this. If we do not curtail our numbers we will struggle with energy, food and water. No way to live. We need a balance.