I will name four forms of Armageddon that could happen by the year 2060 to 2100. (See below)

1. It takes 1 acre of arable land to feed one human for one year. We have 15.77 billion acres of arable land. The world population this minute is about 7.6 billion. In 2050. world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. By the year 2100, world populatation will reach 11.2 billion. Notice anything about the numbers?

2. If commercial fishermen are allowed to continue bulldozing the ocean floor to catch fish, the oceans will be completely dead by the year 2060, because the ocean floor is where new fish hatch. Ocean birds will also die because they will have nothing to eat. Right now fish accounts for 20% of the worlds' protein intake.

3. If the Atlantic ocean heats up too much, the Gulf Stream will stop moving. It is cold water that propels it. If the Gulf Stream stops, life as we know it will end.

4. If an EMP from ANY nation is exploded over another technological nation in space, 90% of the people of the technological nation will die. Food, transport of food, water pumping, are all completely dependent on electricity in technological nations.

Based on the information above, can anyone explain to me WHY we are not focused on these issues? Instead we fritter away our time obsessing about the most stupid things...like Trumps hair, or white male privilege. I am just urging ALL of you to focus...focus...focus!!! Even though hands may be waving to your left, saying "Look over here, not over there!" please don't be duped. Please think about what is really important.

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MethDozer · M

It is seemingly easier to solve problems that don'resist or that are little more than annoyances instead of trying to solve grand scale problems. The problems you mention are just too big and quite for most people to grasp and deal with. It isn't immediate, it isn't easily.solved, and they are so big and abstract to people they just lose it.

4meAndyou · F

@MethDozer @MethDozer I think you are right. Like babies, people become distracted by their little plastic toys and forget the bear is coming....until it is on them. But there are really easy things people can do.

1. Stop having so damn many children.
2. Contact your government repeatedly...sign petitions...make a big noise....so that commercial fishermen are restricted in this bulldozing practice by law.
3. Volunteer with any agency that will work to help prevent global warming.
4. Actively work for any political party that has a chance of acheiving nuclear peace and diplomacy.

MethDozer · M

@4meAndyou Well, here we are ha ing children. Much less children. So we got that part going here.

We can petition out government all we want but you are hard pressed to actually stop it the world over.

Nuclear weapons are here to stay and really having some as deterrence is really the most practical.way to keep them from being used. As soon as only one side has one, or no side has one and someone decides to make one, they will much more likely be used.

Just being a jaded realists on these solutions. Personally I am starting to become anti vaccine not because I think they cause autism or some b.s., but because viruses and bacteria are the only natural things to keep our population in check.

4meAndyou · F

@MethDozer Whoa. Harsh...although I can understand in a limited way. I do know that modern medicine is creating a weaker, sicker species by preventing natural selection. That doesn't mean we can tell a young girl that she can never have children because she will pass on a rare form of cancer to her children. We think about it sometimes....but we can not become monsters.

MethDozer · M

@4meAndyou Nah that is true too.

I know it sounds cold and I am not really ready to go along with it. Yet I recognize we are weakening our genetics as a species and have removed our only natural population control mechanism. Not really ad advocating just acknowledging .

4meAndyou · F

@MethDozer Acknowledged.