Columbia River red algae could counter global warming effects

[Burkingam]

Are you implying that we Norwegians put Muslims in our country to work in the coal mines? You my good sir, are indeed a tactless individual. (Read that last sentence with British accent)

Also I don't give a damn about millions of Muslims out there in the world, live and let live. China on other hand needs their population trimmed down... at least they try to do it themselves. Got to give them some credit for that.

No just that anyone living in your country is less than 100 km from an oil well. I figured since you like genocidal plans so much we might throw some more like that, even though I'm pretty sure if the only way to prevent global warming was a genocide that would kinda defeat the purpose.

I believe this is the point where someone must post a link to the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

Yeah I have heard of them by Rational wiki.

[AceHigh]

No just that anyone living in your country is less than 100 km from an oil well.

I don't expect foreigners to know it, but pretty much all oil platforms are 100 kilometres off the cost or even further, so... yeah, few casualties there.

Besides it's not a production, but the consumption that is the problem. After all if Norwegian oil was used only by Norwegians, which are like only 5 million people living on a territory that is of the same size as Poland, we would be using it slowly for hundreds of years. That brings me to another great idea: how about trimming the population of Poland which is about 38 millions down to about 5 millions? The land would be able to sustain a sparse density easily and there wouldn't be enough people to seriously fuck up the environment.

All jokes aside, why do you think the idea of population control is unacceptable when the quantity of the humanity is the root of the problem here?

[Burkingam]

Well sorry for my mistake then.

I'd say the number of humans is only one part of the problem, the other being our life style. But I'm not against all kinds of population control. The best kind of population control is to provide education and contraception to women everywhere and that's something I'm all for and so are you IIRC.


Beside, if I was some kind of psychopath with too much power and I really wanted to exterminate a large percentage of the population to solve the ecological problem, don't you think a gendercide would make more sense? I'm sure sperm wouldn't be that hard to clone in a lab so if we killed every men then it would be very easy to control birth. Lets exterminate the all Y chromosome. This way we never have any accidental pregnancy and and since it's easier to have a centralized control over sperm banks than to control people's sex life, it would make eugenics so much easier. Only allow women who have completed college and who have no criminal record to get pregnant and with centuries humanity should become better at learning and more law abiding. Dang, what a great idea for a scfi novel.

[jaybug]

Screw population control. The best birth control other than the pill, was to have women in the work place. Want fewer people, have women work outside the home.

We need to send 5 billion or so to live on Luna and Mars. We need to have Scotty beam us up, there is no intelligent life here.

[5Cats]

Dang, what a great idea for a scfi novel.

@Burkingham: I think Gene Roddenberry made a film (TV Pilot?) based on a similar idea...
Yup! Planet Earth: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072000/

We need to send 5 billion or so to live on Luna and Mars.

@jaybug: Space Elevator = win!

Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxVTlzb2HT4 = Mars Needs Women (Tonio K.)

[Burkingam]

You know, I'm all for space exploration and everything, but no amount of terraforming of the moon will make it anywhere close to the earth, even we purposefully made the earth as polluted as we could. Unless cosmologists make ground breaking discoveries which completely transform our understanding of physic, we are stuck with this world and whatever we do with it our children will have to deal with.

[jaybug]

The moon will be subterranlunal??? And we are going to be a lot dirtier than we and our anti-biotic everything have become accustomed. Think Pigs in Space! Wait, don't think Pigs in Space. lol We won't do well if it will be like an Intel chip fab.

I do not expect the private sector, that is in favor with the Democrats that run Portland to be able to do much with this algae, should it be good at scrubbing CO2 from the air. They can't even make a compost site that includes food scraps stench free. For some reason I don't even want to drive by the place to discover for myself what rotting meat smells it must have.