ENDGAME (premise nine)

Although there will clearly some day be far fewer humans than there are at present, there are many ways this reduction in population could occur (or be achieved, depending on the passivity or activity with which we choose to approach this transformation). Some of these ways would be characterized by extreme violence and privation: nuclear armageddon, for example, would reduce both population and consumption, yet do so horrifically; the same would be true for a continuation of overshoot, followed by crash. Other ways could be characterized by less violence. Given the current levels of violence by this culture against both humans and the natural world, however, its not possible to speak of reductions in population and consumption that do not involve violence and privation, not because the reductions themselves would necessarily involve violence, but because violence and privation have become the default. Yet some ways of reducing population and consumption, while still violent, would consist of decreasing the current levels of violence required, and caused by, the (often forced) movement of resources from the poor to the rich, and would of course be marked by a reduction in current violence against the natural world. Personally and collectively we may be able to both reduce the amount and soften the character of violence that occurs during this ongoing and perhaps longterm shift. Or we may not. But this much is certain: if we do not approach it actively—if we do not talk about our predicament and what we are going to do about it—the violence will almost undoubtedly be far more severe, the privation more extreme.

The wiki article: (sorry)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_crisis#World_population_growth
Wake up, people.
http://www.biology-online.org/4/5_monitoring_populations.htm
responsibility
http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/earthsystems/food/foodweb3.html
"Die Off"
http://www.dieoff.org/page174.htm
think about it
http://mmcconeghy.com/students/supcarryingcapacity.html
high estimate
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/basin/local/sustain6.htm
World Population
http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/pop.php
*
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html
*
http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop
*
http://math.berkeley.edu/~galen/popclk.html
*
Please read this article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/jul/07/research.waste
ENDGAME Premises by Derrick Jensen
http://www.endgamethebook.org/Excerpts/1-Premises.htm
overview part one
http://www.archive.org/details/PhilosopherSeed-DerrickJensenEndgamePartOne803
overview part two
http://www.archive.org/details/PhilosopherSeed-DerrickJensenEndgamePartTwo255
Population doubled:
10,000bc-5,000bc (5000yrs)
5,000bc-3,000bc (2000yrs)
3,000bc-1,400bc (1600yrs)
1,400bc-bc-0-ad (1400yrs)
bc-0-ad-1,200ad (1200yrs)
1,200ad-1,700ad (*500yrs)
1,700ad-1,900ad (*200yrs)
1,900ad-1,960ad (**60yrs)
1,960ad-1,996ad (**36yrs)
Do you see a f*cking problem, here?

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[AuroraKismet]

No one likes my suggestion.I suggest we follow the natural order of things.Die when death comes to you.Stop the artificial prolongation of life,e,g.Pope John Paul II and Dick Cheney.

[dnHooligan]

most people die, without ever getting a chance to live.

[AuroraKismet]

That's why no one likes my suggestion.We're all conscious of what you said on some level,but unwilling or unaware to take the leap from existing to actually living.

[dnHooligan]

we're not really allowed.

everyone (in this country, anyway) is born into slavery, with a huge debt attached to their social security card.

[AuroraKismet]

So how does one cancel that?I know it is possible because I knew a man who never had one.Just don't know where he is anymore because I've moved.

[dnHooligan]

i think its pretty complicated, but it may be just as easy as filling out the right form.

i think there are several steps to legal sovereignty.

[bunrithyean]

the movie, Rampage?

[ArgosSmith2009]

Indeed if the masses don't realise this and wake up soon, the globalists will address this problem for us (as they already have begun to over the last few decades, find out where AIDs came from).

[AzraelsJudgement]

There are probably sane solutions to this. Stop increasing as a starer.

[dnHooligan]

i don't like that solution.

f*ck globalization.