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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
All the hoopla aside, it is pretty much undeniable that the human race does better when things warm up, worse when it cools off.
But there is some scary stuff out there. Back in my younger days I was aware, through friends and some attendance on my part, of the "environmental" movement. A lot of the organizations that are now (unfortunately or not) part of our lives as Americans got their beginnings back then: the Environmental Justice Movement of the early 1980s, save the ozone, PETA, Denis Hayes and the Earth Day movement, etc. etc. Without going into details, there were a fair number of extremists flying under the radar; people who saw this stuff as gospel as well as others who may not so much have believed in the hype and hoopla quite as strongly as the True Believers but who were nevertheless adept at organizing, indoctrinating and demonstrating.
One of the topics that got a fair amount of play, at least among the folks I knew, was that North America, in an ideal situation where human activity was NOT harming the environment, could support at most eleven million hunter-gatherers. I'm not joking when I say that such a prospect was given serious thought by the more extreme folks. It was ludicrous then and even more so now, but one has to consider just what ARE the long-term goals of the more extreme environmentalists, especially considering the practice of no goal reached is ever enough: I seriously doubt that if an extreme environmental group saw all of their goals achieved one day, that they'd NOT have a list of even more extreme goals on the table the next.
What ARE the long-term goals of the more extreme environmentalists? We don't know, and I doubt we ever will.
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With respect to the 1st sentence, "the human race does BETTER when THINGS warm up". If that general statement were TRUE, we would ALL be packing up and moving TOWARD the equator. Now due to Global Warming and crop failure the populations are moving the OPPOSITE way from South to North (which is a current and future PROBLEM).
........And what does BETTER mean? More population? How about the IDEAL population for a country (like the US) based on infrastructure like roads and QUALITY OF LIFE. Have scientists ever studied that? I would say that the US currently has the CAPACITY for 275 million people to live IDEALLY. But, too many people are enamored with a MORE is ALWAYS BETTER philosophy. Try putting a half pound of sugar in your breakfast bowl and eating it......Oh too much, what a surprise?
....Scientists know that EVERY animal species has a HOLDING CAPACITY, which when exceeded causes that species to die out. Most animal species make that adjustment before it is too late. HUMANS may NOT have that inherent capacity as they always seem to go for the MORE is BETTER philosophy.
......But I respect the posters post.