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Original air date: June 17, 1994 The world population has greatly risen. Is this increase a real problem and a justifiable cause for the world to be fearful? Or is it …
Yet another quarter century squandered! The human race, stupid and arrogant beyond belief! If we had shown the slightest bit of compassion and respect to other species – both animal and plant – on our planet, there would be only one billion of us (if we had done everything absolutely perfect, the planet might have been able to sustain almost 2 billion). Multi-plying like rabbits, landing like locust, we have already reached over seven billion (7,700,000,000, heading towards 12B), so our species has been removed from the list of intelligent beings – an updated list, that covers the entire Laniakea ("immense heaven") Supercluster, stretched out over 160 megaparsecs (520 million light-years).
The fact that we have – during wars, massacres, genocides, crusades, jihads, rebellions, conflicts-disputes-quarrels-strifes-feuds, murders – killed 4 billion of our own species, and seriously wounded another 8 billion, has not gone unnoticed. In the galaxies' planetary data base, our planet has a huge warning sign to all space travelers: Do Not Enter. The Planet Tellus is famous, throughout the galaxies, as the home for a species with an extremely high viciousness rating – the humans. Unlucky tigers, and millions of other species, who ended up on a planet that includes us.
That is an absolutely horrendous, violent history – which, I'm pretty sure, puts us into the top 1% of violent species ever to emerge, out of the ooze, on the 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. goldilocks planets in the observable Universe.
With [Ben Wattenberg]. It's interesting to see where we were at 25 years ago. I was going to say it would be nice to see a reunion, but I'm sure a few are dead.
Capitalism is the best contraceptive. ?.
Yet another quarter century squandered! The human race, stupid and arrogant beyond belief! If we had shown the slightest bit of compassion and respect to other species – both animal and plant – on our planet, there would be only one billion of us (if we had done everything absolutely perfect, the planet might have been able to sustain almost 2 billion). Multi-plying like rabbits, landing like locust, we have already reached over seven billion (7,700,000,000, heading towards 12B), so our species has been removed from the list of intelligent beings – an updated list, that covers the entire Laniakea ("immense heaven") Supercluster, stretched out over 160 megaparsecs (520 million light-years).
The fact that we have – during wars, massacres, genocides, crusades, jihads, rebellions, conflicts-disputes-quarrels-strifes-feuds, murders – killed 4 billion of our own species, and seriously wounded another 8 billion, has not gone unnoticed. In the galaxies' planetary data base, our planet has a huge warning sign to all space travelers: Do Not Enter. The Planet Tellus is famous, throughout the galaxies, as the home for a species with an extremely high viciousness rating – the humans. Unlucky tigers, and millions of other species, who ended up on a planet that includes us.
That is an absolutely horrendous, violent history – which, I'm pretty sure, puts us into the top 1% of violent species ever to emerge, out of the ooze, on the 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. goldilocks planets in the observable Universe.
Population is not a problem… It's the stupidity!!!
Yes……
With [Ben Wattenberg]. It's interesting to see where we were at 25 years ago. I was going to say it would be nice to see a reunion, but I'm sure a few are dead.