Looks Like We'll Be Lucky to Make it to 2050

[Tuckerfan]

@Sam Stone

Oh my God… A friend’s mouse just gave birth to five offspring! And I read that they can each give birth in five weeks!

That means he’s going to have almost 10 million mice in his house by next year!

My god, what will he do? And this isn’t just his problem - it affects all mankind. If current rates of birth continue, there will be 7.89 X 10^69 mice. That will wipe out the planet.

See, while you were all off worrying about some piddling little trend regarding resources, I used the same logic to show that the true threat is the domestic mouse, which will destroy us all in just a few years.

Too bad fish don’t reproduce that quickly.

A new global study concludes that 90 percent of all large fishes have disappeared from the world’s oceans in the past half century, the devastating result of industrial fishing.

The study, which took 10 years to complete and was published in the international journal Nature this week, paints a grim picture of the Earth’s current populations of such species as sharks, swordfish, tuna and marlin.

If you’ll note in my OP, I don’t say, “So this is it. We’re going to die.” I simply ask if we’ll do the smart thing, or if we’ll continue thrashing about in the same stupid manner as we have been. IMHO, I don’t think that it’s necessary for any kind of technological breakthru for us to increase the odds of our survivability as a species, it is merely a question of will.