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[Buzz]

[glow=red,2,300]Some of you are going to call me a sick bastard for putting what I am about to write, do not take it the wrong way at all, please.
Anyway onto my subject, the destructive tsunami that recently killed a estimated 120,000 people, now what I am anticipating people getting upset over is this, are these natural events in some way doing the human race a favour? By this I mean the current world population which I believe is estimated to be somewhere in the region of six & half BILLION atm.
I am in no way detracting from the pain & suffering this recent catastrophe has caused, but how much bigger can the worlds population get before we end up using up all our natural resources?
Do these natural disasters, such as plague, famine, deadly viruses, volcanoes, earth quakes, tsunami's and various others, do they not somehow help to thin out the human race?
Do we need more such disasters? although we are more than capable of making our own....

Finally my sincere thoughts goes out to all those people around the world who have suffered any loss due to the tsunami [/glow]

[-(aaK)- Deltz]

My thoughts go out to those who were lost in the disaster and their families as well.

I'm one of the people who agrees with you buzz.
In another decade there will be a serious crisis if the population keeps on increasing the way it is.

How much more land will be used up for housing for instance?
We will end up concreting the world.

Sadly this is the price of peace.
There will in my opinion, not be another major world war.
We have simply got too good at killing.
And no world power is willing to be the one to start M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction) by releasing nukes.
All thats left is terrorism, disaster and disease.

The recent tsunami was started by a force 9 earthquake which is too scary for words.
The Earth itself is long overdue some major disasters based on its past.

The one reason that disaster death tolls are so high these days is there are simply that much more people
in the same amount of space.....

[-(aaK)-grimreaper]

here here buzz its sayed in about 15 years we will have used up all the oil next the jungle and several other natural resources will be gone and all will be lost the ocean will consume all low level lands including florida lmao and an ice age will set in thats supposed to last for many centuries ;D

[-(aaK)- Neil Faz]

Hmmmm On a slightly more morbid note, I have to disagree here.

I think that if all the natural resources run out, were going to have to develop something new or die.Its a sad fact of life that we either change/evolve, or become extinct. I dont agree with the whole cleansing over the natural disaster(i know what u meant dont worry, i know im phrasing it badly) and if we are running out of space because of an ever increasing poulation, again, the only thing we can do is develop before we run out of time. I suppose thats like war, in the fact that it inspires technological advances which make the world a better place. Forests probably will become extinct one day and global warming and even wars possibly, but the fact is that nothing is going to stop it. It is inevitable that the human race is probably going to end up dead.

Anyway..im quite sure some of that contradicts itself and makes little sense.. but i thought id give an opinion, so i'll stop rambling now:P

Plus, remember there is a donation thing to help the tsunami victims.

[Rik-[FD]]

As with all of you, my thoughts are with those who have lost family and friends.

I can see what you're saying Buzz but in the scheme of things, these sorts of disasters and the other things that have been mentioned just don't kill enough people to fit into a "thinning out" scenario. 120000 sounds like a lot and it is but compared with the billions in the world, it is but a drop in the ocean. And to be honest, if you look at the area affected, you're going to see absolutely no NOTICABLE effect on resource consumption. For that to happen, you'd have to look at the San Andreas or something similar.

In my opinion, the only good to come out of this is the sense of grief that most of us feel. The human race takes big hits in the humanity stakes but nothing regains the ground lost in this area better than the money flooding in and the brilliantly observed moments of silence. Its very easy to forget that there are more good people out there than bad.

[Buzz]

[glow=red,2,300]I suppose there is the fact that some good does come out of such disasters, It doesnt matter what creed, race you come from people are still people, and will help no matter what, shame it never lasts.....


And if anyone does want to help then check this link out btw
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www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html