Feeding a world population that won't regulate itself is the problem...more people suck more trees/resources from the earth...yadda, yadda, yadda...and we keep feeding them for the almighty buck...then we start running out of the resources that we need to sustain the system that feeds the world. See where this is going? Mother Nature hates parasites.
i dont agree to this, as education and women empowerment grows 1-2 kids becomes the rule. the turn around on that is scary in a 40 year cycle. go from "potentially too many" to unsustainable. white people will be endangered species at most present rates.
i have seen estimates of sustainable world population from 500 million to 60 billion over the years. nobody knows.
the great lakes are way down compared to the 60's...i worked in port sanilac all last fall up to mid jan...i was shocked at some of the levels recorded on the wall over 60 years where i fished from....
the ogallala is the big issue.
fuk california....the ogallala means more to me then anything in cali....cali is easily solved with technology in the sense of cost ratio and what we actually have to do it with now.
at the end of the day, there is a hard cycle noted from tree rings mentioned earlier that is truly indicitive that we are screwed. this would happen according to that data....whether we humans are present on this rock or not.
look at the societies of the original natives, some even thought to be the ones that bred our current corn lineage that instantly disappeared due to water and potential forest mismanagement issues(thought to be self inflicted from overpopulation in a desert
)and its easy to imagine there will be flight on the level of the dust bowl at the minimum... if the cost effectiive solutions are here, it fill be one issue...but the political failings of our society in current up against this real natural event and crumbling infrastructure bid a gloomy future for us americans.
potentially horrific future...and i dont mean 10 years from now either.