Kudos
Psytranceaholic
I'm concerned about the size of the population, not just for the UK but the whole world. There's simply not enough room:
We're importing most of our food, because there's not enough space for us to grow it for ourselves.
New houses are being built smaller, so now we're living in increasingly cramped conditions.
This allows for higher population density, so now we've got problems with 'rush-hour' traffic becoming a 24-hour thing.
More people=more cars=more pollution....
And then there' s the subject of PEAK OIL...which has already happened, so it looks like we're going to run out of it anyway in about 5 years time:
The Oil Age only properly took off at the beginning of the last century. It gave us extra means to acheive things, including giving people the chance to have more kids, as it was affordable, and transportation of any goods a family needed was easier and cheaper.
When the oil runs out, all the things that it is used for will no longer be produced, what's already exists will be used until it is finished or broken. We will basically have to live like we did before oil, burning coal and timber instead. Sadly our population has grown so much that there won't be any coal and timber left before long...
So a reduction in the population WILL happen, as people die of cold, starvation and getting killed by others in the fight for food.
What should have been done, as the oil age began, about 50 years ago, is a law to be enforced in every country which consumes oil, to allow no more than 1 or 2 children to be born between each couple.
I think that law should be in place now, even it is too late.
I know great-grandmothers who are not even 60 years-old yet...thanks to un-planned teenage pregnancies. SOMEHOW there needs to some form of control, to keep the population from increasing and actually have it gradually reduce...to the point where we can have our countryside back.
What do you think? Do the poll, cos I've never heard ANYONE say this an important issue...I'd like to know if I'm not the only one who is concerned about this!
We're importing most of our food, because there's not enough space for us to grow it for ourselves.
New houses are being built smaller, so now we're living in increasingly cramped conditions.
This allows for higher population density, so now we've got problems with 'rush-hour' traffic becoming a 24-hour thing.
More people=more cars=more pollution....
And then there' s the subject of PEAK OIL...which has already happened, so it looks like we're going to run out of it anyway in about 5 years time:
The Oil Age only properly took off at the beginning of the last century. It gave us extra means to acheive things, including giving people the chance to have more kids, as it was affordable, and transportation of any goods a family needed was easier and cheaper.
When the oil runs out, all the things that it is used for will no longer be produced, what's already exists will be used until it is finished or broken. We will basically have to live like we did before oil, burning coal and timber instead. Sadly our population has grown so much that there won't be any coal and timber left before long...
So a reduction in the population WILL happen, as people die of cold, starvation and getting killed by others in the fight for food.
What should have been done, as the oil age began, about 50 years ago, is a law to be enforced in every country which consumes oil, to allow no more than 1 or 2 children to be born between each couple.
I think that law should be in place now, even it is too late.
I know great-grandmothers who are not even 60 years-old yet...thanks to un-planned teenage pregnancies. SOMEHOW there needs to some form of control, to keep the population from increasing and actually have it gradually reduce...to the point where we can have our countryside back.
What do you think? Do the poll, cos I've never heard ANYONE say this an important issue...I'd like to know if I'm not the only one who is concerned about this!