Adrian Williams
No Longer a Member
My take on this is that we are certainly going through a period of climate change, the evidence of the receding icecaps is indisputable.
We are also going through a global population explosion which if it were happening to any other species we would be describing as a plague.
I'm not qualified to even speculate if these two things are related but I do think nature has a way of evening things out and a population explosion in any species is usually followed by a population crash as food and other resources (oil, clean water, shelter, healthcare etc)become scarce.
I think most of us alive today will probably survive into old age but I would not like to offer odds for the grandchildren of the younger members of the forum collecting their old age pensions.
The survivors will be facing a very different world with less emphasis on global growth and more on sustainability. If they think of us at all they will remember this period in history as the most wasteful decadent time there has ever been.
We are also going through a global population explosion which if it were happening to any other species we would be describing as a plague.
I'm not qualified to even speculate if these two things are related but I do think nature has a way of evening things out and a population explosion in any species is usually followed by a population crash as food and other resources (oil, clean water, shelter, healthcare etc)become scarce.
I think most of us alive today will probably survive into old age but I would not like to offer odds for the grandchildren of the younger members of the forum collecting their old age pensions.
The survivors will be facing a very different world with less emphasis on global growth and more on sustainability. If they think of us at all they will remember this period in history as the most wasteful decadent time there has ever been.