Comments by "Brandon" (@gravoc857) on "Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology | Lex Fridman Podcast #268" video.
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@informationageenterprise2184 Scientific Publication in the journal Science Advances, titled “A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets.”
An example would be if Human population grows to 1 trillion humans. Even if 100% of our energy was via renewables. Something as minor as 2% heat waste from solar panels, would be enough to trigger cascading climate change on a global scale, due to the immense energy requirements of 1 trillion humans.
Modern humans have existed for roughly 400,000 years. What I’m defining as modern, is the development of the human brain. If we had a time machine, we could kidnap a human baby from 400,000 years ago, and mentally, they would be capable of being raised as a normal modern day human. Minus the fact that their body would be rampaged by viruses and bacteria of modern day.
The human brain has changed very little in 400,000 years. A blink of an eye on cosmic and geological scales. Hell, it’s even a blink of an eye on evolutionary and biological scales. Of those 400,000 years of modern humanity. There’s been roughly 12,000 generations of humans. 97% of them were nomadic hunter and gatherers where survival was a daily struggle. Such a small percentage of humans have lived with agriculture, towns, cities, industry, and globalization. Even wilder, 80% of humans who have ever lived, are alive right now.
We’re becoming victims of our own success. We’re exponentially multiplying, and the planet has been flashing warning signals for decades that it can’t keep this up.
Interesting and scary fact about America. Aquifers supply the vast majority of drinking water to most American’s. In a little under 200 years, we’ve nearly tapped the aquifers dry. These aquifers take hundreds of thousands, to millions of years to accumulate.
Population control is often confused with eugenics. Population control is a complex moral question, that humanity isn’t ready to have yet. If we don’t do it ourselves, Mother Nature will start doing it for us. It is a slippery slope to totalitarianism, but so is a bunch of other stuff humans already do. We got another 50-100 years to start thinking about the long term of humanity, before it truly starts becoming too late. The dinosaurs managed to maintain harmony with the ecosystem for a little over 100 million years. Humans haven’t even been around for 1% of the time dinosaurs were here. Dinosaurs lasted so long, that dinosaur fossils started appearing while dinosaurs still lived on earth. For reference, there are no human fossils. Just bones and mummies.
Humans as a species can live for tens, to hundreds of thousands of of years more. Hell, we could even go for million(s). Our planet has roughly 500 million years left before the sun gets too hostile for habitable life to exist on earth. A species that chooses to focus on the long term survival of their species, will understand the importance of population control & sustainability. It will also understand the importance of knowledge, and becoming interplanetary, and possibly even multi-stellar. If humans adopt this long term focus. We may even progress to the point of engineering our planet to survive our warming sun. We may even be able to push the planets orbit out further, to survive the sun going red giant in roughly 1 billion years. Or, we could make star lifters to reduce the mass of our sun. If we reduce the size of our sun by 8%, it significantly slows down the rate at which fusion occurs within the core. It would extend the current phase of our sun by 2 billion years, giving humanity 3 billion years before the sun goes red giant.
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