JoeB131
Diamond Member
PS..you don't save a species by killing it off. In case you didn't know. To preserve a species with a high mortality rate you need a HIGHER birth rate, not a lower one.
So the whole Nazi concept of "death to preserve life" is no more viable today than it was when the deathcamp docs were spouting it.
No, what you need is a sustainable environment.
The real problem is that we've already messed with the system. Any species that sustains itself does so because it maintains a steady repelacement rate, not an expanding one.
For most of human history, when the life span was only about 40 years and infant mortality was north of 50%, this wasn't an issue. The human species spread across the planet but largely had sustainable numbers.
Then we invented agriculture and medicine and vastly increased our numbers to the point where they aren't sustainable in the long run.
There are regions that are deserts today that were once thriving agricultural centers. But they were stripped bare by farming. Given enough time, even with improvements in agriculture, the whole world is going to look like that, but not before we've wiped out every forest and jungle and swamp trying to maximize foodproduction to feed 7 billion hungry mouths.