Oi Lady Muck...

[NigelJK]

Water will be the first issue due to overpopulation. Clean drinking water.

Too late, first symptom is climate change.

[vetran]

Water will be the first issue due to overpopulation. Clean drinking water.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-019-0039-9

We will work round that. plenty of salt water out there and it can be driven by renewable energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames...lination_Plant

look at what Israel has done.

War, pestilence and famine are the usual suspects.

Famine is likely the poorer nations want to eat a western diet. War over food and land to grow it will follow.

We have had SARs, Swine flu, bird flu and covid plenty more to come.

[SueEllen]

We will work round that. plenty of salt water out there and it can be driven by renewable energy.

Desalination plants are expensive.

[vetran]

Desalination plants are expensive.

£1.50 per litre build cost is hardly expensive. You seen the price of perrier?

[SueEllen]

£1.50 per litre build cost is hardly expensive. You seen the price of perrier?

Sorry I'm thinking of places in Oz and Lahore where there are water shortages.


Oh have you seen this -

Mouse plague in Oz?

[vetran]

Sorry I'm thinking of places in Oz and Lahore where there are water shortages.


Oh have you seen this -

Mouse plague in Oz?

Israel has been doing it for years

https://www.gov.il/en/departments/ge...0100%20million.

The Australians don't have a lot of terrorism.

if we are going to allow population to grow we have to rethink where the necessities for life will come from.

[SueEllen]

Israel has been doing it for years

https://www.gov.il/en/departments/ge...0100%20million.

The Australians don't have a lot of terrorism.

if we are going to allow population to grow we have to rethink where the necessities for life will come from.

The population in Western countries is decreasing as the birth rate is falling so it won't be a problem.

If more girls are educated and given access to birth control in developing African and Asian countries their populations will decrease as well. Bangladesh is an example of this where the birth rate was 3.17 per woman in 2000 and 2.06 in 2017.

[vetran]

The population in Western countries is decreasing as the birth rate is falling so it won't be a problem.

If more girls are educated and given access to birth control in developing African and Asian countries their populations will decrease as well. Bangladesh is an example of this where the birth rate was 3.17 per woman in 2000 and 2.06 in 2017.

let us hope but we are on the way to 8 billion, there will be people who need more than their environment can supply and as they become more wealthy they will want more resources. Subsistence living raids the planet far less than steak & chips.