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In reply to the discussion: The Guardian: America's premier pronatalists on having 'tons of kids' to save the world: 'There are going to be count... [View all]OKIsItJustMe
(21,180 posts)32. I highly recommend John Brunner's 1972 novel, The Sheep Look Up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_Look_Up
It doesnt include much about Climate Change but everything else is dead on, which, he explained nicely in an interview.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13818683-900/
It doesnt include much about Climate Change but everything else is dead on, which, he explained nicely in an interview.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13818683-900/
What frightens me in retrospect about The Sheep Look Up, with its vision of a world where pollution is out of control, is that I invented literally nothing for it, bar a chemical weapon that made people psychotic. Everything else I took straight out of the papers, and magazines like New Scientist. But then, I have long been resigned to the fact that no matter how ghastly a plot element I may devise for a story, it will never outdo what I am certain to find in the next days news.
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The Guardian: America's premier pronatalists on having 'tons of kids' to save the world: 'There are going to be count... [View all]
OKIsItJustMe
May 2024
OP
In past ages, people had lots of children, because many of them would not survive to adulthood
OKIsItJustMe
May 2024
#10
Are you proposing "culling?" Because we cannot wait for the decades it would take.
OKIsItJustMe
May 2024
#14
We need a new economic system. We're consuming our planet for the profit of a few.
CrispyQ
May 2024
#26
I heard a climate scientist being interviewed recently who said that 50% of all non-pave land is devoted to agriculture.
Lonestarblue
May 2024
#28
Too many humans already for this Dear Rock named Earth. It'll still be here, and thrive, once
Traurigkeit
May 2024
#3
The Earth will thrive, whatever that lives or not lives on surface doesn't really matter.
Traurigkeit
May 2024
#8
"If we damage the ecosystem thoroughly enough, it may not be able to recover..."
CrispyQ
May 2024
#29