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[QUOTE="darkwor:830050"][QUOTE="Yeti:829938"]i couldn't agree with that more. even a short 5 years ago i had a surprising amount of optimism for change, but i don't believe in a 1/10th of that anymore. we [U]need[/U] a catastrophic event to restabilize things on Earth. [/QUOTE] yes, we do. but assuming nothing does happen, it's hard to fathom, but it's generally accepted that the population will plateau at around 10 billion at the end of the century ([URL]http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007830.html[/URL]) where today the world median age is 26 and by then it will be 44. that article above presents 3 main challenges, for humanity to deal with the population rise and fall: 1) The meeting of the immediate crisis. Before global population peaks, we need to have one-planet models of prosperity, and we need to make sure people embrace them (and have the opportunity to embrace them), so that we head off the disaster-spirals that await us if we continue to overshoot the Earth's biological capacity. The meeting of this crisis allows us to imagine stability returning in the 22nd century, and is vital. 2) The preservation of long-term legacies: the maximum possible number of species, the most stable climate possible and as many of the great human legacies -- from languages to learnings, seeds to world heritage sites -- as we can. The preservation of these legacies expands choice for future generation, and is vital. 3) The design of answers to 1) and 2) that themselves think ahead. We will be designing, for instance, cities to house billions more people over the next 50 years... but then most of those cities will become shrinking cities, home to far fewer people in the next century: can we design cities that can shrink gracefully? nature endures, no matter what. it frustrates me to no end that i can't do a damn thing (directly) about the deforestation of the amazon or the homogenization of animals native to this continent, but well after the population plateau, nature will always outsmart and adapt to our actions. humanity has already fucked up this first run at industrialization. maybe next time, we'll go with nature instead of against it. good article, conservationist.[/QUOTE]
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