Monday, November 19, 2007
the syd solution
Okay, Dr. Sighn, if you say my comment is wrong, you're going to be #1 on MY hate list. :-) Now, Earth is a huge planet. Like really, really huge. Compared to other planets like Jupiter and Saturn (the best planet) maybe not so huge, but in general, it is. There is lots of room for us humans to stretch out and start making babies. There are states in the US like South Dakoda and Wyoming that have populations of like 14. Let's spread out! Everybody needs to just get up and move to these scarcely-populated areas. Yes, I understand that no one really wants to live in really sucky states like Montana, but they need to suck it up and take one for the team. What's everybody doing cramming themselves in countries like India and China? We need to spread the love and move out. Also, it is SO true that people could live on other planets in the near future. Maybe it's just because I'm a space nerd, but I seriously think it might be a possibility. NASA is planning to send a space shuttle to Mars in 2030 (I'll be on it), and following the discovery of standing water on the red planet, who knows what they might find. As for overexploitation of resources, let's just get on top of that recycling business and help slow that whole depletion thing down. There's also renewable resources, too, like wind and solar energy. Scientists are really smart these days, I'm sure they'll come up with ways to more frequently utilize these plentiful resources. Solar powered cars are already being used more frequently, and they're cutting down pollution, too. Population, shmopulation. People are wonderful, and this world needs them. Yes, the government should try and help limit growth so that Minnesota and other sucky states aren't swarming with people, but I think this world has bigger problems to deal with. Additionally, if people would stop popping out babies at age 13, maybe they wouldn't have so many in their reproductive lifetime. Some problems are just uncontrollable, and this may very well be one of them. However, environmental science is definently the best subject there is, so in that respect, this is one of the biggest pressing issues facing humanity today.
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I really admire the positivism that you try to bring to this post! I like the title of your post "syd solution" Ha ha! It is not that we are trying to have a meeting of a passimistic society here, but being a scientist is also about being a realist! Your solution that we can use the extra space to spread humans have some merit to it, but it is not only about the space. There was time on this planet when dinosaurs dominated the Earth. But dinosaurs were just part of the ecosystems like any other organism, and they lived in them and died in them. Human beings on the other hand are exploiting every ecosystem on this planet by sitting at home or traveling in a car. We have casused more havoc than biggest natural catastrophes on this planet. I hope you go to Mars and I hope you become a big scientist. No matter how much passimism we cling to, the fact of the matter is that we are still hoping and looking for an alternative to doom!!!
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