h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't think reducing the population is necessarily the problem; with the resources that we've got, we're perfectly capable of providing every single human being with more than enough food, water, clothing, education, and so on. The trouble is that groups of people can be very selfish. I think the most important thing to do is learn how to cope with life as a race of humans, not individuals.

Hasn't it been estimated that Earth is already way beyond the ideal carrying capacity? Only major changes are going to allow us to survive. I still maintain that there are too many people here.

Blimey, I ask a simple question about broccoli and it turns into a major etthical debate. For the record, I can't stand the stuff (unless it's Cubby Broccoli, who made some good films), but I love bacon, especially for breakfast, but I can never be bothered to cook that early in the morning.

I would have to agree with the position that we as a species are much too numerous. We are a selfish race, like any other on the planet, whose only real drive is to perpetuate the species at all costs. However, we're also the only species that has the brains to actually have a lot of success at it. Every time Nature tries to cut our numbers down, we come back with all sorts of new technology (medicine, cloning...) which Nature, in turn, finds a devious way to counter. I think if we don't stop trying to foil nature instead of cooperate with her, the pickle that the human race has forcibly been shoving up her bum is going to explode and come shooting back out at us, a flaming projectile aimed directly at the collective groin of humanity.

Oh, and I like broccoli, raw or cooked, bacon is one of the best breakfast foods going, and I can't make myself swallow tofu.

Well, I'm going to start solving the problem by removing myself from the face of the planet. *ties noose from ceiling *

The Chinese had a good system of limiting each couple to one child, but doesn't seem to have worked.
And when you start enforcing such systems it gets complicated politically, you don't want to be labelled a fascist

I find I'm one of those people who is constantly driven further and further insane (and constantly ticks off the rest of the population) because she can see ALL of the interconnecting and convoluted problems, and can't see a SINGLE solution that wouldn't complicate some other aspect of things.

Trust me, it's just as annoying to me as it is to all the people who complain about people like me!

* beats head against wall *

*beats wall against head*

Oh dear! I didn't intend to cause anyone bodily harm...

perhaps if we arranged for a couple of billion people to be abducted by aliens??

*looks confused and wonders how they got to people trying to kill them selves from a question about broccoli*
So...ummm...
*wonders whether to write essays on GM foods and the China Child project*
Err...
*decides it'd be safer to remain quiet until the topic gets back to Christmas parties*

I'm not trying to kill myself, I'm expressing frustration.

* goes back to beating head against the wall *

*looks at the dents being made in the wall and quickly fetches a pillow to put infront of MaW's head so the new paintwork doesn't chip*
Umm...you might want to change the method of removal of frustration though that looks somewhat painful...
*passes over a rubix cube*
Here try this
*grins*

* pulls the rubic's cube apart and throws the pieces across the room *

No, that didn't help

* kneels, and bangs head on the floor, to see if it's any better than the wall *

Here, have some bubble wrap.

Thankyou.

*presents the completed Rubik's cube, hoping everyone's forgotten it was in pieces.*

Aaahh! So that's how you complete the thing. I've always wondered.

That's _one_ way to do it. Ask Joe aka Arnia about the other way.

No your supposed to peel the stickers off and then put them back in the right places...
*grins*
although that tends to annoy people particularly if you use your brothers rubix cube

*looks approvingly at the sensible use of bubblewrap*

You have to put them back on very straight, although the advantage of it is that you can put them back so that the cube is impossible.