Ten Billion

I clearlly remember in 1980's the same apocalyptical predictions were made(one example is Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and his bestseller "The Global Challenge"), that by 2010 we will reach 7(seven) billion and that will be "the end", at that point(2010) we will gonna run out off oil, run out off food and so on.... all this reminds me of snake oil sellers.

I highly recommend this movie to every soul on Earth. We don't know why we are here. We can at least know where we are heading. However the film did not mention one major cause of the human condition. That is the printing of money. Behind that is greed. Everything follows.

The past cannot be changed. Everyone agrees to that. No Dispute. Here comes the difficult one. The future is also set in stone and cannot be changed. There is no parallel universe or heaven awaiting for us. We are the problem. We are going to die because of what we did. There is no exit. The ending is fixed.

The solution to the "Ten Billion" problem is simple. "Ten Billion -1", and just repeat it many times. This can be achieved by not giving birth to more people who will find no food in the future. Can we do that? Simple solution doesn't mean easy. Stephen Emmott tries to tell us what he sees in the future because there is no alternative future.

All throughout this documentary and films like it, I wonder what they think the average person can do about these issues? "Stop getting those plastic bags at the grocery store!! Recycle!! Stop buying plastic products!!" Why are you yelling at me when the grocery stores are the one's who hand them out!? And just because I "stop accepting plastic," what is that doing to curtail the manufacturing of plastic bags and other plastic products throughout the world? Zilch! Nada!!

This is why documentaries like this are useless as they're aimed at consumers instead of the corporations responsible for polluting the earth and the ecosphere. Consumers have enough worries to manage in their day to day lives without needing to be burdened about these kind of environmental issues they can do NOTHING about!

So until these scientists and soap-box orators come off their high horses and actually do something to change the minds of the people running these corporations, it's really no more than grandstanding and virtue signaling!

The Chief Scientist of Microsoft and his team spent years on this research. Republican Oil Men will try to claim that it's baloney. It's not.

The simple fact is, like China, the current 7.5 Billion of us (Feb 2017) all want the middle- class lifestyle or better. Earth simply does not have enough agricultural land to do this, and we are poisoning and mining the seas at breakneck speed.

Global warming will produce a net loss in arable land, especially in poor countries.

Every single hamburger takes over 600 gallons of water to produce.

Greed is driving the few of us into Ever More false wealth. GREED is a contagious MENTAL ILLNESS. It's why people with a million times as much money as the poor still feel they don't have enough.

Even with totally free energy, and miracle "test tube" food, we simply cannot sustain 9 billion people by 2025. The systems will start to crash, and the rich (think) they will have super- walled communities and private armies to ride out the crash. But this is an illusion.

No man is an island. In a hundred years, all of your descendants will be dead.

But there's a happy ending! ... Once man is mostly gone, nature will heal the planet, and in a few thousand years, it will be mostly healthy again, just missing most of the higher life forms.