GHETTOBLASTER » 22 Nov 2022, 8:13 pm » wrote: ↑ Does God say what HIS UPPER LIMIT is...or is there none...just infinity?
Contrary to your thesis, hunger on earth is inversely related to population growth. As population has risen, living standards have risen with population.GHETTOBLASTER » 22 Nov 2022, 8:02 pm » wrote: ↑ The richest areas are where the people at the top of the economic food chain want to live.
Fewer people competing for x number of homes automatically moves everyone up higher on the ladder.
Every single country that is full of starving people had at one time a population count that was much more self sustainable.
There wouldn't be nearly as much immigration pressure or war .
People choose to build on scarce [over valued] open land next to where the jobs are, or buy over valued houses next to where the jobs are...not because they prefer living in a Sea Of Humanity, but because they have to be realistic.
roadkill » 22 Nov 2022, 8:21 pm » wrote: ↑ I assume no limit. We have the technology to feed everyone.
roadkill » 22 Nov 2022, 8:08 pm » wrote: ↑ Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
We take our incredible ability to produce vast quantities of food on properly managed ground with us and all of the rest of our living standards with us when we shrink back the population.Cannonpointer » 22 Nov 2022, 8:28 pm » wrote: ↑ Contrary to your thesis, hunger on earth is inversely related to population growth. As population has risen, living standards have risen with population.
It's not that what you're saying isn't logical - it IS logical. But it's false.
What you are saying is only logical within your errant tautology of scarcity. In a world of want, yes - more people = less pie. But in a world where people are a resource, more people = more resources = more pie.
All this land looks nice and warm and fuzzy while surfing the globe on GOOGLE EARTH.SJConspirator » 22 Nov 2022, 8:18 pm » wrote: ↑ about 20 billion. That would give everybody 5 acres of land per individual
I take it as it comes. You're looking for a prescription from a fellow who lives in descriptions.GHETTOBLASTER » 22 Nov 2022, 8:43 pm » wrote: ↑ We take our incredible ability to produce vast quantities of food on properly managed ground with us and all of the rest of our living standards with us when we shrink back the population.
Do you hunt or fish...?
How many people living in the USA would it take to make both you and God happy..?
A billion..maybe 2 billion...or maybe NO LIMIT AT ALL...?
The eskimos make a living as piss ant hunter gatherers in the most unforgiving climes. The apache lived in the toughest desert in the U.S.GHETTOBLASTER » 22 Nov 2022, 8:44 pm » wrote: ↑ All this land looks nice and warm and fuzzy while surfing the globe on GOOGLE EARTH.
Your "map" doesn't show a 300MM USA in 2022 that has shrunk back to 150 MM by 2082Cannonpointer » 22 Nov 2022, 8:47 pm » wrote: ↑ I take it as it comes. You're looking for a prescription from a fellow who lives in descriptions.
I just booked a getaway for two weeks in Tenerife, after swearing I would burn my passport before I would ever return to Europe, because they went so covid fascist. But some friends were going, they hornswoggled me into it. They didn't have to push too hard.
I am telling you how it IS - the more people the less hunger. You are telling me how it SHOULD work, base on your world view: more people = more hunger.
When your map disagrees with he territory, your map is wrong. The territory is right.
Would and should is inferior to could and did.GHETTOBLASTER » 22 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm » wrote: ↑ Your "map" doesn't show a 300MM USA in 2022 that has shrunk back to 150 MM by 2082
With fewer people the less land, fertilizer, diesel, water and pesticide it takes to feed everyone.
Explain how our crop yields would suffer with fewer people.
Cannonpointer » 22 Nov 2022, 8:28 pm » wrote: ↑ Contrary to your thesis, hunger on earth is inversely related to population growth. As population has risen, living standards have risen with population.
The funny thing is, all I'm doing is honestly assessing the territory - that is, stating that which is manifestly so, such that a fly on the wall could see and record it. I am reporting what measurably and verifiably has occurred in time and space. And this is precisely the world that Aristotle bequeathed us: a world of description rather than prescription.SJConspirator » 22 Nov 2022, 11:07 pm » wrote: ↑ holy ****, you are channeling Henry George almost word for word here.
https://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp19.htm
That is, in the ability to obtain the goods and services that are the real object of labor. A growing population increases the effectiveness of labor by permitting greater economies. More wealth can be produced with the same effort. It increases productivity not only on the newer land, but on all the better land already in use.
Cannonpointer » 22 Nov 2022, 11:46 pm » wrote: ↑ The funny thing is, all I'm doing is honestly assessing the territory - that is, stating that which is manifestly so, such that a fly on the wall could see and record it. I am reporting what measurably and verifiably has occurred in time and space. And this is precisely the world that Aristotle bequeathed us: a world of description rather than prescription.
Aristotle did not abolish magic - just magical thinking. Using his precepts and apprehending the world in the Joe Friday fashion (Just the facts, ma'am), we can observe the magic that IS, and describe the magic that IS. We no longer have to ascribe it to made up things - anthropomorphize it, sacrifice virgins to it, what have you. We no longer have to appease it. We can simply observe and report. We live in a world that we CAN accurately describe. Instead, we often prescribe the world we live in, which leads to ignoring reality and inventing phantasms like "over-population."
Just look what Jinn and GB - two very fine and well-meaning fellows - have done. They have taken a prescribed reality and quite literally poisoned their view of actual reality, based on a tautological prescription. They decided without considering the evidence what was so. Henry George was describing the world he saw, not the world he expected to see. I'm doing the same.
If I tell them they are superstitious, they will be insulted. But look at the world, look at their view of it, and TRY not to say ooga booga, population explosion! Ooga booga!
I'm not trying to be a dick. The person who convinced them that people are a problem was the dick. People are a resource. And the fossil layer is in the making. This planet is a giant living hopper that is making US a part of the fossil layer from which we sprang AS WE SPEAK. To suggest that we - creatures OF the fossil layer - can deplete the fossil layer is a snake eating its tail. We can play a part in its transformation - as a shovel-load of **** transforms your loam. But we cannot possibly deplete it as we are it.
Look at the energy we can take from ONE ATOM, and **** TELL ME we live in a world of finite resources.
Cavemen lived in scarcity. Then they figured out how to farm. OTHER cavemen - still living in scarcity - raided their farms. So the farmers killed the cavemen.SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2022, 12:13 am » wrote: ↑ There are certain ways of doing things that would make the world finite. For example, if every cadaver had to reserve 6’ of land are for a coffin and headstone, we would run out of earth for the living. That’s why I am being cremated.
the brainwashing that tells everyone we live in scarcity (which hasn’t been true since the industrial revolution) is powerful and its reinforced daily, but it should be easy to see through. If one guy owns billions of dollars and thousands of acres of land, and there are a few hundred of that ONE GUY, scarcity is an illusion. We are swimming in abundance and it grows as technology grows
That all depends. I think headstones would crumble before we filled the earth. Earth's big. Y'know what happens to MOST graveyards? They get forgotten and end up paved.SJConspirator » 23 Nov 2022, 12:13 am » wrote: ↑ There are certain ways of doing things that would make the world finite. For example, if every cadaver had to reserve 6’ of land are for a coffin and headstone, we would run out of earth for the living. That’s why I am being cremated.
FOS » 22 Nov 2022, 8:20 pm » wrote: ↑ i believe that gates does want to reduce population, but he is also an idiot.
i dont think he means vaccinnes will directly reduce population...that would not be a vaccine lol.
he believes that the only reason african woman have so many children is because few of them live past the age of 5.
he has noted that the birth rate of white people have decreased dramatically, and he actually thinks this is because of better health care.
1) circumstances which have a certain impact on white people will not have the same impact on africans. they are different races. Gates is too stupid to understand that.
2) health care is not the reason white birth rates have dropped. It is actually our **** economy combined with cultural antinatalism.
gates has actually managed to do the opposite of what he intended. He made the african population explode. This is because he is an idiot.
No it wouldn't be a vaccine. Indeed the CDC and WHO had to change the definition of vaccine to even be able to call it one without lying.FOS » 22 Nov 2022, 8:20 pm » wrote: ↑ i believe that gates does want to reduce population, but he is also an idiot.
i dont think he means vaccinnes will directly reduce population...that would not be a vaccine lol.