Our Earths Biodiversity Crisis

[Gandalf]

Overpopulation is a problem for everyone. It means too many people in poor countries and then the West allowing them in. It wouldn't be a privileged persons problem if we had enforced borders.

[Fenster]

Overpopulation is a problem for everyone. It means too many people in poor countries and then the West allowing them in. It wouldn't be a privileged persons problem if we had enforced borders.

Wouldn't it make more sense - be easier - to wipe them all out? Although i'm not sure how it impacts you, at nearly 40 with no offspring why do you care? Unfortunately you'll be long gone before ever witnessing/experiencing your imagined utopia.

[Gandalf]

Overpopulation is a problem for everyone. It means too many people in poor countries and then the West allowing them in. It wouldn't be a privileged persons problem if we had enforced borders.

Wouldn't it make more sense - be easier - to wipe them all out? Although i'm not sure how it impacts you, at nearly 40 with no offspring why do you care? Unfortunately you'll be long gone before ever witnessing/experiencing your imagined utopia.

I assume you have no children too, do you think it would make sense to just wipe them all out?

I guess it's not really part of my nature to want mass genocide. I would prefer to be reasonable and encourage people to be sensible. If people in other countries want to have 6 children each, that is their choice, but they should deal with the consequences there. All I suggest is that there is a more intelligent way to conduct oneself.

Quite true that none of it really has any effect on me, but maybe it suggests that I intrinsically just want a better future for the earth that we live on and that we hopefully quite like and enjoy. I don't see the point in spoiling it because people cannot control themselves.

[Fenster]

Overpopulation is a problem for everyone. It means too many people in poor countries and then the West allowing them in. It wouldn't be a privileged persons problem if we had enforced borders.

Wouldn't it make more sense - be easier - to wipe them all out? Although i'm not sure how it impacts you, at nearly 40 with no offspring why do you care? Unfortunately you'll be long gone before ever witnessing/experiencing your imagined utopia.

I assume you have no children too, do you think it would make sense to just wipe them all out?

I guess it's not really part of my nature to want mass genocide. I would prefer to be reasonable and encourage people to be sensible. If people in other countries want to have 6 children each, that is their choice, but they should deal with the consequences there. All I suggest is that there is a more intelligent way to conduct oneself.

Quite true that none of it really has any effect on me, but maybe it suggests that I intrinsically just want a better future for the earth that we live on and that we hopefully quite like and enjoy. I don't see the point in spoiling it because people cannot control themselves.

Just saying it would be more simple than educating/stopping them with all the silly PC rules and regulations.

Intrinsically I suppose you're right, but none of it will effect us either way, whether or not the flag of sharia rustles over Buckingham palace one day won't have any bearing on us nor a Rhino or dog going extinct.

[walrus]

Oh snap the frogs are dying


A fungus that kills amphibians is responsible for the biggest documented loss of nature from a single disease, say researchers.

Better biosecurity and wildlife trade restrictions are urgently needed to prevent any more extinctions, they say.

The disease, chytridiomycosis, has caused mass die-offs in frogs, toads and salamanders over the past 50 years, including extinctions of 90 species, according to a review of evidence.

It has spread to over 60 countries.

Australia, Central America and South America are particularly hard hit.

"Highly virulent wildlife disease, including chytridiomycosis, is contributing to the Earth's sixth mass extinction," said Dr Ben Scheele of The Australian National University in Canberra.

"We've lost some really amazing species."

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