Consumption is what you are having trouble grasping. The world has a limited supply of resources. If you can not understand that concept , just quit the discussion now. Just look at China...read the whole article if you want to expand your knowledge base.
You evidently have never heard of herd mangement. The same principal applies to humans, despite WTF you think your God has told you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/op...02diamond.html
Among the developing countries that are seeking to increase per capita consumption rates at home, China stands out. It has the world’s fastest growing economy, and there are 1.3 billion Chinese, four times the United States population. The world is already running out of resources, and it will do so even sooner if China achieves American-level consumption rates. Already, China is competing with us for oil and metals on world markets.
Per capita consumption rates in China are still about 11 times below ours, but let’s suppose they rise to our level. Let’s also make things easy by imagining that nothing else happens to increase world consumption — that is, no other country increases its consumption, all national populations (including China’s) remain unchanged and immigration ceases. China’s catching up alone would roughly double world consumption rates. Oil consumption would increase by 106 percent, for instance, and world metal consumption by 94 percent.
If India as well as China were to catch up, world consumption rates would triple. If the whole developing world were suddenly to catch up, world rates would increase elevenfold. It would be as if the world population ballooned to 72 billion people (retaining present consumption rates).
Do you understand this concept Marshall? . It would be as if the world population ballooned to 72 billion people
That does not mean that the worlds population has to rise to that level. It means that the consumption would. It is not substainable. Period.
Originally Posted by WTF
You send me to the NY Times Opinion section!?! Isn't there a NY times Fact section?
OK, I will waste my breath on you one more time.
You are assuming that humans beings are running out of resources. I don't see you presenting facts that human beings are running out of resources.
Let me machete some of your thickets and be less obtuse than usual....
Useful information for the debate:
Studies on earth's resource reserves
other non-earth located sources of resources
technology advancement
supply/demand dynamics
recycling impact
future projections of types of resources needed
this crap is just off the top of my head from 2 seconds of thought......how am I suppose to take your opinions seriously? You got to do better than that before I make additional effort to rifle through my library and prove you wrong.....