Comments by Fredrik Svanberg

Comment #220026 by Fredrik Svanberg on July 28, 2008 at 1:22 am

Christopher Davis:
"You are not disputing Shaka. You are disputing Malthus...and to do that successfully, you are going to have to post something better than you have so far."

Then Shaka would have to start making more sense of his source material. Either way Malthus lived 150 years ago. I'd dare say that many of his ideas are outdated, especially on food production.

Here's just the first article I grabbed from a google search: http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2002/7828-en.html

2. Toward a Type 1 civilization

Comment #219085 by Fredrik Svanberg on July 26, 2008 at 8:45 am

Shaka,

You speak nonsense.

"Our planet will not be able to support our numbers for much longer. We barely have enough fresh water, how will we support the new babies being born everyday?"

People also die. There is plenty of water the problem is distribution.

"Plus there's rising food costs because we also don't have the land to feed everyone."

There is an enormous surplus of food. The problem is distribution.

"We're heading for a massive Die Off, as in Starvation. Of course, this is also part of nature."

Food production is at an all time high.

"Once there is no longer enough food and water to support large numbers of a species, most will begin to die because of starvation."

Not going to happen.

"Than, the food source gets to grow once again because there is no longer large numbers feeding off that food. And since there's more food again, the numbers of that species begin to grow again."

I'm no expert but even I know this is not how it works.

"Thats what we, as humans, part of this natural cycle, will face."

That is not how we have been doing things for the past five thousand years or so.

"Plus lets not forget oil, which is used in almost everything we make. Cars, gas, plastic, steel, etc. Once it's gone, it's gone."

So? Nobody seems to be able to agree on how much oil there's left. There has also been interesting and apparently succesful experiments in synthesizing oil from biological waste.

"The people that have the best chance of surviving the Die Off are those that are the most sufficient. That are able to feed themselves from their own lands and harness rainwater."

But that's ok since there won't be a "die off".