Twelve unsustainable things

All pretty much driven by it though.

 

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Kill them with fire . Were did you get that figure 500 million ? That is a pretty
drastic cut in population .

 

Once they form a critical mass, they form a biofilm...which is a colony that's about a thousand times more resistant. They can communicate with each other, which means the antibiotic kills the outside cells...but by the time it's gotten all the way in, the innermost cells have learned from the dying cells how to beat the antibiotics...

I'm having trouble finding a good link, and I have to go to bed...but as I have a nine-year old sinus infection that has come back from two surgeries and all antibiotics thrown at it...you can see why I'd be interested in finding out about resistant infections.

Xylitol is one of the things that breaks up biofilms(destroys their ability to communicate and stick together, I believe)-and has been used to treat nonhealing wounds in diabetics....I irrigate my sinuses with a rinse that contains some of that mixed in.
(I think I need more tissue out though-my nose still swells shut.)

Apparently, though, D-amino acids , two of them, I forget which ones, break up biofilms like nobody's business-at least in the lab. Too bad I can't find a supplier, and the L-forms promote bacterial growth...

 

solve number nine and the rest will solve themselves

 

I disagreed, you control the population and we are doom. Lack of genetic diversity in a biological population is the first step for sterility of whatever biological population.

 

A couple of thousand people is enough to maintain genetic diversty.

 

It just seems like nice number.
It would mean that the population of the US would become just over 22 million, which would correspond to the population as it was in the 1840's (for the world population that would be the population as it was between 1500 and 1600).

I would turn that around and say that we have seen a pretty drastic increase in population.

 

i never said anything about decreasing genetic diversity.
there are definitely ways of "controlling" population growth without decreasing diversity.

how many people, in your opinion, would be needed to maintain diversity?

 

Why would we even want to? I mean, did you just pull that number out of your ass? The US alone has over 300 million and there's plenty of room for more people here. 500 million? The entire planet? Tbat's absurd.

 

area, world, sq. km = 510,072,000
world pop. = 6,706,993,000

- cia factbook, 2008

 

Uck. I disagree.

There are far too many people here, because there's no place where people are NOT.

And I find that a place where other people aren't... is a very important thing.

 

This tells Me the ancients were smarter than modern people typically think they were. Ancient Humans have been basically the same for 75,000 years and our feminine side for how long again ? Is that you Lucy ? I Love Lucy!!!

 

Yes there is. You need to to come to Montana and hike up Morel Falls and see the Grizzles. You can see some wilderness. Or Hike to the top of Greathouse peak by Judith Gap and look out across the Great Plains towards the east . I swear you can see for hundreds of miles. Maybe more . Probably way more . You can see where the earth curves and the vastness of open space will blow your figgen mind Chimkin. The earth looks crowded because every bodies all bunched up in these artificial worlds of metal and concrete stackem and packem style . Now I know there is some urban sprawl going on , but way more people are in city centers . Hell look at the population sign as you enter a city, even a dyslexic guy like me can see it is true

 

Really? Then I've got several square miles of swampland in Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, North & South Dakota and about 7 others that I'd like to sell you. And that's not even considering the WIDE swaths of farmland in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana and about two or three more.

Don't get out and around much, do you?

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Well lets just see how well the world does with about 2/3 less people first . Catastrophic collapse is in our near future and if you live for about 20 more years you will get to be a witness Cat person . So that will be about 6 billion people gone give or take a few more . Let Me check my watch . Oh look it has already started . We are out of the starting gate . Look Baby Boomers retiring . Go Baby Go! Go Baby Go !

 

Can you hear people? can you come across trash? can you see power lines? can you hear freeways? can you see jets overhead? Four-wheeler tracks? the smell of combusted petroleum?
Can you let wolves come back without someone trying to get them shot?

I seriously doubt it.

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I want there to be large swathes of places that just don't exist for our convenience, but exist for their very own sake, and in the lower 48, there are very few places that are so.

But no, I don't make enough money to take vacations. I used to be able to get that vacation pay on a check, now I just lose it...it's not full pay-they only do minimum wage.
But I can't afford to go anywhere, so I might as well work.:shrug:

Wow, why do I suddenly feel like my life is a sea of broken things and dirt? Maybe I've been diving too many dumpsters lately.

 

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