Overstretched Cities: Empty Half the Earth of its Humans.

[lordsummerisle]

TheGuardian.com

There are now twice as many people as 50 years ago. But, as EO Wilson has argued, they can all survive – in cities.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/20/save-the-planet-half-earth-kim-stanley-robinson

[calimary]

1. Wow!

I have a meeting today with a gardening specialist regarding habitat-friendly gardening, from one of the local foundations. MOST interesting! Can’t wait! Before we moved, our garden qualified as a habitat - with features including availability of food, a water source, shelter, and nest-making components. Eager to find out what to do and what more can be planted in this new area and climate where we live now.

This is SOOOOO important!

[calimary]

2. And, seems to me, this kind of reorientation also has to go hand-in-hand with

more population control. Or management. Or smart limitation. Or whatever you want to call it.

It was rather shattering to read in this Guardian article, above, that there are almost 8-billion people on the earth!

WHAT THE FUCK???????

EIGHT BILLION PEOPLE????????????

HOLD the Fucking PHONE!?!?!?!?!????

I can remember when it was six billion. Our planet cannot sustain this many people and how fast we’re multiplying! Shit - doubling the human population in the last 50 years - that’s just in my lifetime. O. M. G.

Here’s the massively sobering fact/truth/new reality: We are going to have to take a serious look at family size. Specifically limiting family size. Like it or not.

[lagomorph777]

3. I remember when it was 4 billion.

And that was a scary number.