Doctor Doom Says We Need to Kill Off 90% of People on Earth

Go ahead. We'll be right behind you. I promise.

Good article.

I have never seen 12 Monkeys, but I will check it out.

Gaia theorists have advocated similar theories regarding population levels but I've never seen a call for a reduction of 90% or so. However, Gaia theory in general is entirely plausible to me; in fact, its a workable ethos for me.

Frankly, the figure of 90% is entirely unrealistic and unworkable. Unfortunately, given that human life is worshipped as being "sacred" and the concept of humanity "inviolate", our species will continue to boom by the hundreds of millions. I truly believe that by the end of this century, Mother Earth, will be close to unliveable for most species, including ours except for those who own the small pockets of land left that are viable for existence. I base my assumptions not on fractious green-party doom and gloom, but on myriad rational publications that now suggests we're on a one-way ticket to self-destruction. Global warming is just the beginning.

Mac, I gave the atricle a read before I posted. I just felt it was a solid opportunity to raise the notion of Gaia theory.

I say anyone who still writes a check for groceries at Wal-Mart should be eliminated.

Those people really piss me off.

90% is a little drastic, let's just make a start with the ginners and see how it goes.

I read several parts of his website. The guys still seems like a pompous ass... His "obituary" is quite ammusing. So is his "ten commandments."

Agreed

that link looks like it was made by some student, not by someone actaully in charge of the UT website.

Heard it on the news from the wife. The guy is not right and he is not wrong with what he wanted to say, we have not had a World War in 55 some years where we killed off thousands of soldiers and civilians every day for 5 years. Don't forget the planet culling we had in the Great war WWI that was another great victory for the elite belonging to the nepotism group.

Fact is if we halved the current World population we would still run out of natural resources in the next 20 or perhaps 5 short years. Not everyone can own a Honda for example and everything else we own in our homes and cloth our selves with.

Hell I saw a clip on the Telly showing them making buttons for clothing and they make 50 buttons a second just to keep up with supply and demand.

Read about "six sigma and the Lean Process" and you will find out it takes 5 years for a coke can to make it from the mines to the paint booth and to your table.

Remember I am 5% book smart and 95% real smart so what I say is the truth.

90% is insane. 80, maybe 85%, but 90? C'mon.

Yeah mate. It is a bit of a case of that, isn't it.

You're right though, I agree, the world's human population is seemingly unsustainable and we all know that, yet how does one go about "culling" in a politically correct fashion?

Naturally, we wont, although nuclear war might be the catalyst for wide-spread mayhem and destruction.

Such sorry visions of the future are hardly palatable yet once the resources dwindle and once the world's people begin to war over those resources then I cant see a happy ending for the majority of us.

As always, it will be one people dominating another - the question is, who will that be?

George Carlin does a nice bit on that...

George Carlin does a nice bit on that...

he is like your favorite guy, isn't he?

One of them. His observations are brilliant. I highly recommend
Jammin' In NY, and Back In Town. Later stuff not as good. Although
his special that came out before 9/11 had a piece on looking for bombs
on planes was pointless because you could just kill a pilot with a knife...

What's it to ya'...

Going to see him the 22nd

What can I say, I had 1 roomate from Indiana and 1 from Brooklyn

Out of Carlin's era. . . I lean more towards Albert Brooks or David Brenner

My current favorite comedian died last year: Mitch Hedberg:

My wife's favorite is probably Jim Gaffigan

and

Welcome back

Running out of resources is going to be a gradual thing, so the signs of the time would be a lot worse than they are if your figure of 5 years would be close to the truth.

That's one of our problems in the western world, or perhaps even of the species. We can't look far enough ahead to take appropriate action to influence processes that span tens or hundreds of years, instead of the next election term. Some individuals can, but as a collective we're unable to act on it. In the far east long term vision is more appreciated than in the west but in terms of environmental policies I can't say that it shows at the moment.

No, if you listen to the whole part, at the end he says terrorism will go on
and after our economy collapses they'll all come out of the woodworks.

He meant even with all the terrorism your chances of dying from it are very,
very small.

"take a f**cking chance! What are you gonna do? Eat at Wendy's and play
with your pr*ck til the end of time?

Ummmm...and this is the Queen's English?