Time for a Malthusian catastrophe to fix this

All someone has to do is hit the power grid in the right places and mother nature will do the rest.

I'm not advocating for this at all. It would be awful. Most of these city dwellers have no idea the kind of danger something as simple as that would put them in.

A million tear gas canisters upside antifa and BLM skulls would be a nice start.

I don’t necessarily think that is the answer... way too many stupid people to even make a dent.

Balkanization my friend, fortified city-states.

You want to abolish the police and live in filth? Be my fricking guest, but bring your bullshite to my community and you will be shot on sight.

Might as well get rid of government entitlement programs too while we are at it. Time to just cut bait and move forward.

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Few have been so wrong yet venerated so much as Thomas Malthus.

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Malthus was a VERY smart guy. His idea of geometric population increases was correct. His error was the earth's carrying capacity. In his day carrying capacity was not global. It was within a small biosphere.

The short explanation of geometric:
Pop is determined by female fertility rates. If Greta dies at 85 the obit will say 'survived by 4 children, 14 grandchildren and 22 great grand children.'
But if Greta tries to cross the ocean in a sailboat at 16 and drowns those 40 people will never exist.

Malthus was also right about natural checks that no longer exist. In his day natural checks kept SubSah Africa populations under control. They were too stupid to feed themselves during periods of drought or disease so they died. Now the west ships them food and they overpopulate beyond their ability to be self sufficient. Thus, they are forever dependent on aid.

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thin the heard.


Do you mean "herd?"

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Perhaps Amber Heard has been putting on weight since divorcing Johnny Depp






And as I would never violate board Rules...

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the decline of infant mortality is what buttressed African population growth, just like Europe and the rest of the developed world before it.

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Decline in infant mortality made Europe adjust birth rates, not Africa. It's overcompensation theory as they see excessively large families (9.2 per female in Nigeria) as insurance against the lack of a govt safety net, tribal warfare, drought and disease. If birth rates adjusted to the carrying capacity of the land then they wouldn't be relying on western aid. Europe does not rely on African aid.

My wife and I discuss this often. As we've moved out of a rural agriculture-based society into an urban service economy, we've lost the ability to self sustain ourselves.

The quality of life we enjoy has made us soft, we no longer have a common need to work together to survive. Life is all about convenience these days.

Because of that, we aren't worrying about the big issues anymore and everyone has time to focus on issues that are minor in importance but major in impact.

We've gotten soft and the only way for that to change is for something to happen to remind us that we're all in this together. I don't know what that could be. We need a common goal, a shared experience, something to remind us of what's important.

At the start of COVID, I wondered if this might be it as there are very few large scale scenarios that could actually impact our way of life. It isn't going to be COVID. The next most likely scenario is some type of global conflict that threatens our survival as a nation. We're inching closer to that every day.

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thin the heard.


Do you mean "herd?"

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Sorry bad habit I’ve picked up.