So sad

[Tomtint]

the World needed them Decades ago, but nobody cared, now, we have way too many people, a good war might be needed to fix things, by reducing the population!..

We should have the anti gun group fight th pro gun group...

 

[Jstpssng]

We should have the anti gun group fight th pro gun group...

the World needed them Decades ago, but nobody cared, now, we have way too many people, a good war might be needed to fix things, by reducing the population!..

Watch what you wish for, it might just come true. At the end of the day wars are always about real estate...

 

[ruffdog]

I'm thinking it will be something very small that kills many humans, like a virus or bacteria. Nature has a way of removing some of the overpopulated species to attempt to balance things.

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm thinking it will be something very small that kills many humans, like a virus or bacteria. Nature has a way of removing some of the overpopulated species to attempt to balance things.

Perhaps a meteor... we try so damned hard to kill ourselves off that I have to think it will be something completely unexpected.

 

[rockinmywaypa]

I care about Australia, I really do and I care about the world we live in but and here's the but, The sun has an approximate 10 year cycle of producing sunspots that affect our weather greatly. Australia because of the earth's tilt is also getting the enhanced hot sun streams at a 90 degree angle whereas here in the northern hemisphere we are getting a glancing blow at this time of year that we are also closest to the sun. This is part of the things that we cannot change, what can be changed is the people that we put in charge of looking after the world. Time to jail every person that leaves office insanely richer than they started. Clamp down on country's leaders that have abysmal human rights records, you may have to carry a big stick but put them in their place, in ****. And yes I agree that having less population growth would be good but it's really not educated people that are reproducing rapidly, maybe we should put a stop to nations whose ideology is to take over the world and are having 3 wives and 10 children while doing it while also inflicting pain on those whose ideology is peace.
While I'm pointing, maybe we should all do without cellphones and other electronics that require gold and jewelry, then we wouldn't have to put up with gold miners who dig into the surface and contribute to warming up the perma frost. Do away with dark roads with pavement and solar panels that warm up the surface exponentially by soaking up the suns rays and releasing the heat here at the surface of the earth. Sometime take a walk through a forest then steep into a solar field if you can stand the heat. A thousand years ago the earth was still burning up and flooding and freezing but there was nobody around to talk about it,or at least write it down to keep track of it.

 

[CobyRupert]

Wikipedia Year 1020:
12 - Wikipedia

 

[Industrial Toys]

Rock We have always gravitated towards greed and stupidity as a species. Every person I ever met seemed to be their own worst enemy and collectivly as humans that seems to apply too. More specificaly, it's always the EGO that is at the root of the trouble. Easy to blame a Devil for everything.

 

[Wagtail]

I care about Australia, I really do and I care about the world we live in but and here's the but, The sun has an approximate 10 year cycle of producing sunspots that affect our weather greatly. Australia because of the earth's tilt is also getting the enhanced hot sun streams at a 90 degree angle whereas here in the northern hemisphere we are getting a glancing blow at this time of year that we are also closest to the sun. This is part of the things that we cannot change, what can be changed is the people that we put in charge of looking after the world. Time to jail every person that leaves office insanely richer than they started. Clamp down on country's leaders that have abysmal human rights records, you may have to carry a big stick but put them in their place, in ****. And yes I agree that having less population growth would be good but it's really not educated people that are reproducing rapidly, maybe we should put a stop to nations whose ideology is to take over the world and are having 3 wives and 10 children while doing it while also inflicting pain on those whose ideology is peace.
While I'm pointing, maybe we should all do without cellphones and other electronics that require gold and jewelry, then we wouldn't have to put up with gold miners who dig into the surface and contribute to warming up the perma frost. Do away with dark roads with pavement and solar panels that warm up the surface exponentially by soaking up the suns rays and releasing the heat here at the surface of the earth. Sometime take a walk through a forest then steep into a solar field if you can stand the heat. A thousand years ago the earth was still burning up and flooding and freezing but there was nobody around to talk about it,or at least write it down to keep track of it.

^^^^ Yep. Sunspot activity is cyclical and the Earth is experiencing a very low activity cycle.

The Sun is what drives our climate.

 

[Cat_Driver]

A lot of the fires started with lightning then arsonists get their jollies by starting others, firebreaks don't really do a lot as embers travel for miles in the high winds that the fires create.
2 firefighters died when these winds flipped their 10 ton tanker.
At the moment 2 big fires look llike joining, tomoorrow will be bad with the predicted high winds.
We are 300km away from the fires but suffering from the thick smoke and the ash is getting into our water tanks, something that the media does not mention.
We have a lot of expert firefighters who we send to the US to help when needed, conversely you have a lot too and we thank you for sending them to help now, that goes for other countries who are helping too.
If I catch a firebug the law prevents me from burning him at a stake.

"firebreaks don't really do a lot" ...then why do every time there is a fire the use dozers to create a fire break and or drop Phos Chek of water to create a fire break.
Fire breaks do work that's why they also have some fire breaks already created in California used a fire break roads and have stopped many fires at that road.

Having said that can ember travel sure, but having fire breaks would stop a lot more fires that flying embers would start.

Lastly, with fire breaks, these fires would not get so monstrous that they create high winds. Common sense says a fire break is better than not having a fire break

Here's a small read about fire breaks

http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-8542/NREM-2890web.pdf

 

[Diggin It]

Our potential future (sort of), as told in 1961