Reply #13: Count me out. [View All]

Six billion is enough. Time to move to another planet.

Maybe the earth can handle 10 billion people, but sooner or later most of them are going to want to live the same lifestyle as most North Americans, and that's just not possible.

How do I know it's not possible?

Last week I tried to buy some new hardwood flooring for an old house. The longest piece in the load was 30" long and only three and a half inches wide. We can't grow trees fast enough as it is. And now that North American natural gas supplies are staring to decline the mad rush will be on to buy woodstoves. I don't expect there will be a tree on the planet in 40 years.