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RussBLib

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9. of course they have

Reply to superpatriotman (Original post)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 03:00 PM

Jul 2022

Humans are ravenous creatures. We find a good thing and overdo it and overuse it until "oops" results in something bad, or horrible.

Getting every country in the world to cooperate on something is practically impossible, as we have seen.

Where is that "Good News" forum? Does it exist? Yet?

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Scottish scientists have discovered a catastrophic loss of life in our oceans [View all] superpatriotman Jul 2022 OP

Humans fuck up everything. Elessar Zappa Jul 2022 #1

It's too late Lochloosa Jul 2022 #2

It is if we give up mahina Jul 2022 #3

Give up what? We are incapable of doing what needs to be done. NewHendoLib Jul 2022 #5

Yes it's been about money and greed on the part of some mahina Jul 2022 #48

yes we do - and it is too late. We are too narcissistic as a species - and learn nothing from the NewHendoLib Jul 2022 #4

Yep, tragically very sad. 7wo7rees Jul 2022 #53

Greed, Envy, and Religion will all contribute to our demise. And there ain't walkingman Jul 2022 #7

I wonder if Religion isn't fully culpable intrepidity Jul 2022 #16

I think you're right. FoxNewsSucks Jul 2022 #23

I say/think this about five times a day NJCher Jul 2022 #28

8 BILLION IS TOO MANY. roamer65 Jul 2022 #6

"Humanity will probably survive" Triloon Jul 2022 #8

It won't be pretty. roamer65 Jul 2022 #10

Where will they get their goods and services? Mr. Evil Jul 2022 #19

It's people!!!! roamer65 Jul 2022 #24

"World Made by Hand". SergeStorms Jul 2022 #44

Those billionaires will Traildogbob Jul 2022 #30

Except for those locked in their bunkers. Mr. Evil Jul 2022 #37

Got that right. Traildogbob Jul 2022 #38

We could survive with 8 billion if Elessar Zappa Jul 2022 #11

Possibly, but I'm not confident of it. roamer65 Jul 2022 #14

"a mere fraction" Another Jackalope Jul 2022 #42

of course they have RussBLib Jul 2022 #9

Glad to see this wording intrepidity Jul 2022 #12

Very appropriate quote, intrepidity. 70sEraVet Jul 2022 #22

Prescient cilla4progress Jul 2022 #31

Humans are not sufficiently intelligent Mysterian Jul 2022 #13

"I have met the horsemen of the Apocalypse, and it is us." roamer65 Jul 2022 #15

I am not finding any other peer reviewed studies of this Thtwudbeme Jul 2022 #17

I went to the Foundation's website, and this is not what they are saying. Native Jul 2022 #40

The 90% by 2045 figure is based on a 1% decline... joshcryer Jul 2022 #49

Thanks for this. I didn't bother to check what was on their website after Native Jul 2022 #52

The extinctions and loss of biodiversity because of humanity are ultimately more defining PufPuf23 Jul 2022 #18

So, in 20 years: dalton99a Jul 2022 #20

Less than 200 years of industry to destroy a planet superpatriotman Jul 2022 #21

The planet will survive. FoxNewsSucks Jul 2022 #25

Indeed. jeffreyi Jul 2022 #26

No, eventually enough people will die. Dysfunctional Jul 2022 #27

Yeah, like the Eloi and Morlocks Brenda Jul 2022 #54

We never learned after we polluted the oceans with mercury Ohioboy Jul 2022 #29

Yup, and it bioaccumulates up the food chain. Don't eat fish that eat other fish! SunSeeker Jul 2022 #36

I am afraid to go look at my lavender cilla4progress Jul 2022 #32

Can we farm plankton? Clone it? Ban pollutants? (good luck with that.) housecat Jul 2022 #33

Blissful ignorance has its advantages ramapo Jul 2022 #34

Humanity had a Garden of Eden, and shit all over it. nt SunSeeker Jul 2022 #35

I have dived all over the world for over 40 years and the bloom JCMach1 Jul 2022 #39

This message was self-deleted by its author Kaleva Jul 2022 #41

Meh... Oneironaut Jul 2022 #43

I always figured we'd become sterile due to toxins so we could no longer reproduce, then die off. TeamProg Jul 2022 #46

It's human nature Kaleva Jul 2022 #47

Ughh.. Huh... well.. I'm not that fond of algae.. don't suppose fish & sea mammals are either. TeamProg Jul 2022 #45

Agent Smith from The Matrix. keithbvadu2 Jul 2022 #50

Some in the scientific community are not impressed with this report. Emrys Jul 2022 #51

What's next, algae? Kid Berwyn Jul 2022 #55

This article is suspect Nevilledog Jul 2022 #56