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October 30, 2002
Too Many People!
Overpopulation has always been a big theme in cynical Orwellian views of the future. Though we were never quite sure how it would negatively manifest itself. Well, now its becoming more apparent that its not as far off as we'd previously thought. Rather, we probably chose to ignore it all this time as a true possability. This article talks about a recent study which found that people currently use 83% of Earth's land surface. Worse yet, people also have taken advantage of 98 percent of the land that can be farmed for rice, wheat or corn. Here is a series of maps illustrating these findings.This comes after the UN's recent report on our depletion of fresh water globaly. (Read more here). I just thought these were interesting. Can we prevent all this by changing our behavior radically? I still hold to my prior theory that it will take some sort of catostrophic event for people to corporately realize the folly of their ways. Much like people often drive crazy until one of their friends gets hurt in a car accident, only then do they re-evaluate their driving.
Posted by wonko at October 30, 2002 04:09 AM
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