Scientist David Suzuki makes an analogy about our planet that's pretty terrifying

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0 1. Kiksmaler commented 10 years ago

Bank - FAIL
Science - FAIL
ARMY - Yippie ka ye!
Lets go again...
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+13 2. theWatcherAlpha commented 10 years ago

Oh ... mannn .... that's sukss. I finally got my life started and now we only have a minute to live!!?? :'( :'(
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+13 3. tradewinds commented 10 years ago

A very concise and sobering analogy. One that I am sure will be disregarded until the last minute (pun intended).

On a side note, is it me or does he almost have talons for hands? Evolution at work?
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+1 4. MindTrick commented 10 years ago

China has known about this for a long time. The one child policy should be forced into every country. But with a human consideration that for every couple that has no children, there should be allowed for another to have two. Just as long as we don't grow in numbers. It's hard suppress our instincts, but we have managed before, and can manage again.
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+8 5. cameramaster commented 10 years ago

There's only ONE thing I'm well not happy about....wrong word, but I'm sure you'll get what I mean, I'm nearly 62 years old, I just hope I'm not around when it all collapses.
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-3 6. fjwjr commented 10 years ago

Nice analogy. But as far as his final statement, in what context does he mean? Space available? Population? Food supply? Resourses left? Knowledge? So he made a "scary" statement and left it hanging. Now, what am I supposed to be "scared" about?
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+7 7. banzemanga commented 10 years ago

What is more terrifying is that the video is not loading for me.
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+4 8. ChainTexter commented 10 years ago

Mr Miyagi makes an interesting point.
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+1 9. Mucha commented 10 years ago

Once Earth considered flat, European people thoght that there were only two continents etc... I hope he's mistaking..
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+10 10. dopkop commented 10 years ago

What a great way to visualize exponential growth. Though, his fundamental assumption here is a constant growth rate - and for humans it's actually is not constant at all.

Generally, the better the quality of life, the slower the overall population growth rate. Europe and the US has a near zero organic population growth rate. Check out Thomas Malthus' theories if you're interested in this subject, I think it's super interesting!
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+5 11. huldu commented 10 years ago

Don't worry about it once the time comes and it will, a man or a woman will rise up. For the better or worse. It has happened and it will happen again. I don't want to live when that happens however, just thinking about the 1920-1940's, which would most likely look like child's play.
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+1 13. Romi commented 10 years ago

#4 Well, they just announced today they are canceling they're one child policy... :x
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-6 14. Noobeater commented 10 years ago

I make it a rule not to trust anyone with claws.
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+2 15. Nikalin commented 10 years ago

There is a good real world example of this in comic format here:

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/st-matthew-island/
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-6 16. TesticleTom commented 10 years ago

An entertaining video with an alarmist and inaccurate analogy which neatly ignores many factors including war, disease and natural disasters.

In fact global human population growth rate is NOT exponential:

"Globally, the growth rate of the human population has been declining since peaking in 1962 and 1963 at 2.20% per annum." - source Wikipedia.

and #15. The message from your link is that reindeer are stupid.
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-2 17. Carbon commented 10 years ago

Don't worry... 1 minute represents 1.7% of an hour and modern man has been around for 200,000 years so we still have 3,400 years left!
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+2 18. ibrahimde commented 10 years ago

When i click on a "share on Facebook button" there is "Scientist David Suzuki makes an anal..." as title. How can I change it???
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+1 19. Baliverne commented 10 years ago

this video and a couple others don't seem to load.
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-1 20. IllusionsPlay commented 10 years ago

Suzuki, not just fast as a bullet, but also very smart and wise. :D
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0 21. slightlyph commented 10 years ago

It would be even scarier if this analogy was made about the escalation of totalitarianism in the past, oh, 20 years. Even better, the escalation of procurement of natural resources which the coming years will demonstrate to us in the USA, plus elsewhere. Pollution or government will likely annihilate us before population.