Avengers:Environmentalist nut with magic gloves kills 1/2 population of universe

Thanos, the Villain in Infinity War, Is Just Another Environmentalist Worried About Overpopulation
The supervillain's master plan echoes the fears of "Population Bomb" author Paul Ehrlich.

Thanos believes that there are finite resources in the universe—an appropriately illiterate idea, considering that the universe is infinite.


Less amusing are the horrific real-life policies that have been implemented because of Ehrlich's doomsaying. To be sure, no policy has yet been on par with Thanos' plan to directly kill half of the population, but as Chelsea Follett has noted, "Ehrlich's jeremiad led to human rights abuses around the world, including millions of forced sterilizations in Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia, Bangladesh and India—as well as China's draconian 'one child' policy. In 1975, officials sterilized 8 million men and women in India alone…To put that in perspective, Hitler's Germany forcibly sterilized 300,000 to 400,000 people."

Since Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb in 1968, the world's population has more than doubled, from 3.5 billion to 7.5 billion. Since 1968, famines have all but disappeared outside of war zones, and daily per capita calorie consumption has increased by more than 30 percent. In Asia, the region that consumed the fewest calories and had the fastest-growing population in 1968, caloric intake has increased by 40 percent, faster than the global average. Since 1990, the overall number of hungry people in the world has decreased by 216 million, despite the fact that the population grew by more than 1.9 billion.

Some may argue that these happy trends do not address Thanos' and Ehrlich's main argument: Progress must come to a halt eventually, for we will eventually run out of resources. Missing from the conversation about resource depletion is one crucial consideration: human ingenuity.

University of Maryland economist Julian Simon noted in his 1981 book that the human brain is the "ultimate resource." Humans can innovate themselves out of scarcity by becoming more efficient, increasing supply, and developing substitutes.

New technologies and improved farming methods have led humanity to use less land, while producing more food, which is then sold at a cheaper price. In 2013, the world used 26 million fewer hectares of farmland than it did at the turn of the millennium. To take cereals as an example: A hectare today produces on average 118 percent more yield than it would have 50 years ago. If all farmers could reach the productivity of an average U.S. farmer, the world could return a land mass the size of India back to nature.

As for the finite resource that our modern world depends upon, consider fossil fuels. Thanks to improved detection and drilling technology, there are now far more oil and gas reserves than ever before. Since 1980, proven oil reserves have increased by over 151 percent; for gas this figure was 163 percent. To put these data into perspective, in 2015 we used 34 billion barrels of crude oil, while we discovered another 53.2 billion barrels each year between 2010 and 2015.

We're solving the problems of hunger, poverty, illiteracy, disease, infant mortality, food production and much more at an unprecedented rate. And instead of becoming more scarce, natural resources are actually declining in price.

When you're watching Avengers: Infinity War this week, enjoy what is expected to be the biggest film of all time. But remember: The legitimacy of Thanos' overpopulation fears are just as fictional as the character himself. Humanity continues to prosper.

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I just watched that cape shit avengers film.Couldn't those high tech planets feed themselves? and help primitive ones like the earth?
6 magic stones to divide them

I didn't shed a tear as all those cape wearing faggots died
I was really pissed off though,that this was pt 1 of a 2 parter.

I'll just read the review of pt 2 to find out how they come back to life
BTW,a friend paid for my ticket and I went her and her 2 kids,mostly to socialize and not because of an adolescent fantasy film

someone post that webm of sam wanting to smash in the heads of some guys kids with a ball peen hammer

What a surprise.

We invented space travel to give humanitarian aid to the poor interplanetary refugees.

Nice (((article))).
>blames environmentalists for "overpopulation panic", when it was fairly universal in scientific communities from the 60s to the 2000s,, yet somehow (((wasn't a problem))) when africa had doubled in population from 1980 to 2005, from 400 million to 800 million, while Europe had remained more or less stable in number.
Constantly rewriting history for their sick narrative and plans.

Don't worry, the earth can fit 200 billion*
*= standing shoulder to shoulder and subsisting off the remains of the dead
Europe is the real problem!!*
*= despite having very little population increase, being less than 1% of the total world population and having a stable birthrate and account for 99% of all inventions. whereas Africa, india and China together are more than half the world's population and contribute very little if anything of benefit.

Reminder that they killed off Spiderman so he can be replaced by a nigger,
How's that for direct reference to reality.

You fuckwits completely missed the point.
He's the bad guy, he's the "fascist" doing what is necessary.
Over population is real. Third world countries being fed by the first world has resulted in exponential rises.
1,000AD = 500 million
1850 = 1 billion (almost 1000 years to double)
1920 = 2 billion (100 years to double)
1970 = 3 billion (50 years for another billion)
1990 = 6 billion
2018 = 7.8 billion
Where'd you like it to stop? How many niggers and pakis and chinks do you want in the world?
Short sighted idiot. Europe is being f!posed with a biological weapon, with an endless supply of ammunition. It is like pouring buckets of locusts onto your vegetable garden and expecting them to live in harmony.

The universe is infinite, but Earth is not.
Earth is a confined ecosystem one I don't believe humans will escape in any meaningful way within the next 500 years.
Even if we got to a new ecosystem, every single germ and disease would fucking kill us.
Christ fags just pretend this is just a step in the final journey so don't give a fuck.
Jews are greedy so they don't give a fuck.
Mud-races are just fighting to survive.


Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
Certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit three-ring circus sideshow of freaks.

If the white people stop feeding the non-white people then the population would be reduced.

If white people are so great then why are they dying out?

China is why you have guns, pasty white trash.

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Nah, we're definitely going to make it off of earth eventually as long as we don't nuke ourselves to death first.

There's already a lot of interest among space companies in figuring out ways to mine asteroids; once we manage that, the influx of resources will buy us more than enough time to develop effective colonization techniques, and either ftl or some sort of human preservation technology for spreading outside our solar system.

The big overarching problem is what we do when we run out of resources to exploit in the universe, but that's so incomprehensibly far off that there's no telling what means we'll have developed by then to circumvent those restrictions.

They only killed off like 3 characters, the rest that turned to ash will be brought back like how drax and mantis were brought back you fucking retard, this version of spiderman isn't going anywhere.

China is why half the world's economy is suffering, they're manufacturers who still pay their workers less then the average homeless in the US get by begging per hour, and China's Triads run most of the economy by illicit means via drug running and slave trade, haihaize (One Child policy runoff) relocation and recruitment to establish criminal connections in other asian countries, they don't contribute and he was being nice.

China is actually a parasite off of most countries and we owe nothing to them. If it wasn't for them local manufacturing would be extremely viable and they've invented nothing that actually helps in modern life. You chinese are just a bunch of goons who are pretty much forced to make our shit because that's your only reason to live. Your government hates you and is more Orwellian then the fucking british which is saying something. The only asian government that beats you out in pure assholery is North Korea and now that S.K and N.K are having a peace deal even that will fade in time, so attention will be brought to you.

We're having a trade war with you because it's so easy to fuck you over, you rely on US and most western countries to export your goods, if just one cuts you off you crash and burn.

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There is literally nothing wrong killing off a bunch of niggers to stop over population
I agree there is 7 billion too many people in the world and we need to start getting rid of them

Ehhh not really, at least Kimmie has some semblance of care for his people while china doesn't give a fuck when 50 people die and 4000 commit suicide making the iPhone9 and 11

sterilization with hormone capsule under skin is enough

eh that isn't swift enough
I'd say humanity has 172 years left unless we kill the Niggers, Jews and Asians in the next 20 years as well as the degenerate meth heads, then we will have 597 until mecha-juminjaruna comes, after that day only I
AND ONLY I
will live

That's not political correctness, that's because Sony still owns the movie rights to the Peter Parker Spider-Man, but not the miles morales one.

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U wot?

How do you overpopulate a universe? It's literally infinite.

The Universe is finite. the time the universe has existed is finite and known. The amount of energy the universe contains is finite and known. The amount of matter the universe contains is finite and known. The amount of space the universe contains is finite and known.

They're always the world-wide minority. They're always "dying out." The pressure from always facing extinction forces them to be great. Compare this to niggers growing up in one of the most resource rich continents in the world, where food and shelter can be so naturally plentiful that living is super easy as long as you don't believe in concepts like "quality of life."

"To see how this most human dynamic works, imagine an extremely simple world with only two societies and no unoccupied land. Under normal conditions, neither group would have much motivation to take resources from the other. People may be somewhat hungry, but not hungry enough to risk getting killed in order to eat a little better. A few members of either group may die indirectly from food shortages — via disease or infant mortality, for example — but from an individual’s perspective, he or she is much more likely to be killed trying to take food from the neighbors than from the usual provisioning shortfalls. Such a constant world would never last for long. Populations would grow and human activity would degrade the land or resources, reducing their abundance. Even if, by sheer luck, all things remained equal, it must be remembered that the climate would never be constant: Times of food stress occur because of changes in the weather, especially over the course of several generations. When a very bad year or series of years occurs, the willingness to risk a fight increases because the likelihood of starving goes up.

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If one group is much bigger, better organized, or has better fighters among its members and the group faces starvation, the motivation to take over the territory of its neighbor is high, because it is very likely to succeed. Since human groups are never identical, there will always be some groups for whom warfare as a solution is a rational choice in any food crisis, because they are likely to succeed in getting more resources by warring on their neighbors.
Now comes the most important part of this overly simplified story: The group with the larger population always has an advantage in any competition over resources, whatever those resources may be. Over the course of human history, one side rarely has better weapons or tactics for any length of time, and most such warfare between smaller societies is attritional. With equal skills and weapons, each side would be expected to kill an equal number of its opponents. Over time, the larger group will finally overwhelm the smaller one. This advantage of size is well recognized by humans all over the world, and they go to great lengths to keep their numbers comparable to their potential enemies. This is observed anthropologically by the universal desire to have many allies, and the common tactic of smaller groups inviting other societies to join them, even in times of food stress.

Assume for a moment that by some miracle one of our two groups is full of farsighted, ecological geniuses. They are able to keep their population in check and, moreover, keep it far enough below the carrying capacity that minor changes in the weather, or even longer-term changes in the climate, do not result in food stress. If they need to consume only half of what is available each year, even if there is a terrible year, this group will probably come through the hardship just fine. More important, when a few good years come along, these masterfully ecological people will/not/grow rapidly, because to do so would mean that they would have trouble when the good times end. Think of them as the ecological equivalent of the industrious ants.
The second group, on the other hand, is just the opposite — it consists of ecological dimwits. They have no wonderful processes available to control their population. They are forever on the edge of the carrying capacity, they reproduce with abandon, and they frequently suffer food shortages and the inevitable consequences. Think of this bunch as the ecological equivalent of the carefree grasshoppers. When the good years come, they have more children and grow their population rapidly. Twenty years later, they have doubled their numbers and quickly run out of food at the first minor change in the weather. Of course, had this been a group of “noble savages” who eschewed warfare, they would have starved to death and only a much smaller and more sustainable group survived. This is not a bunch of noble savages; these are ecological dimwits and they attack their good neighbors in order to save their own skins. Since they now outnumber their good neighbors two to one, the dimwits prevail after heavy attrition on both sides. The “good” ants turn out to be dead ants, and the “bad” grasshoppers inherit the earth. The moral of this fable is that if any group can get itself into ecological balance and stabilize its population even in the face of environmental change, it will be tremendously disadvantaged against societies that do not behave that way.
The long-term successful society, in a world with many different societies, will be the one that grows when it can and fights when it runs out of resources. It is useless to live an ecologically sustainable existence in the “Garden of Eden” unless the neighbors do so as well. Only one nonconservationist society in an entire region can begin a process of conflict and expansion by the “grasshoppers” at the expense of the Eden-dwelling “ants.” This smacks of a Darwinian competition “survival of the fittest” between societies. Note that the “fittest” of our two groups was not the more ecological, it was the one that grew faster. The idea of such Darwinian competition is unpalatable to many, especially when the “bad” folks appear to be the winners.[pp. 73-75] (Constant Battles: Why We Fight, by Steven A. LeBlanc, St. Martin, 2004)

Wew lad!
Just because your dick size is infinitesimal and finite does not mean the universe is.
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Educate yourself.
The more you know…
Plasma theory.
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for everyone except white people.


theyre not. we just dont overpopulate and everyone else is. give white people a nation the size of AMERICA, and we can live on 20 acre properties, commute 30 miles+ to work with a big SUV or 2-3 cars. own large houses, have great schools that are cheap to run and have small classroom sizes.

this way of life was always and has been perfectly sustainable for whites. then whites were tricked into, then forced into being populated by subhuman shits that overpopulate. now theyre telling whites its not sustainable.

this is the same shitty logic that says the japanese are dying out. have you ever seen tokyo? a decreasing or stabalized population for them is a good thing.

The universe is infinite, the amount of stuff in it, is not. The universe is mostly empty.

Her and her 2 kids

I have read the script for the second part, and spiderman is a negro, he'll always be a negro.
Every character, fictional and historical in every form of media is going to be replaced with a negro. Only then will things be tolerant, progressive and diverse, instead of toxic, problematic, and racist.

I've never had to shoot a chink yet, but if they keep putting their identical ant colonies in every town and city, I might have to put down some poison for control measures.

This, 100%.
Funny how few people can understand this.
120 million in Japan, they are overpopulated, and a very stable and safe country, thus their birth rate has naturally declined.
Only third world shitholes still pump out a dozen crawling spawns like fucking fruit flies, because they live in raw sewage and chop each other to pieces with machetes every other day, so they need to 'replenish' by breeding like rats.
Unfortunately, the nigs and pakis have been hand-fed by europeans, and so they haven't died off as they should have.
They might need a few dozen nukes to sort that out.

When the ice age comes, every last nigger and shitskin will die out.
Looking forward to it.

Europeans have never been a factor of overpopulation.
Check the statistics for the last couple of centuries.
US has had faster growth than Europe, south America quite a bit faster, Africa and China like maggots in a pool of vomit, india about the same. Indonesia has had quite significant growth.

A decision should have been made in the 1800s to seal off africa and stagnate all the water sources there to ensure malaria covered the whole country.
The negro species should never have been allowed to continue into modernity, especially not anywhere near humans.

>(((Ehrlich)))

Most retarded plot ever, killing half of the population would elad nowhere, the consume would only be 50% smaller for a very short time and then in few decades the population would get even bigger than before

Plus all the wars and corruption that destroying the world economy would cause wasting our resources even faster, Thanos got the most flawed plan of any villain movie

this tbh, they arent even good slaves. look at nigger employees today versus chink ones, or even pajeet ones

Your mind is easily overloaded. You have a very short attention span. You are mortified by your mortality. And you probably are struggling with an addiction or mental disease.

It's sad you have not searched yourself or even the vast amounts of hidden knowledge scattered throughout the internet for a purpose. The Kabal isn't going to defeat itself, son.

this isn't news

Thanos reasoning is dumb.

Yeah, now only half the resources are necessary now, but the remaining living species can breed themselves back to their previous numbers in a few generations.
Thanos would have to re-half-shoah the universe every 200 years or so.

Two words. Gurren Lagann.

mmmmm malaria burgers

Gurren laggan is about technological progress and the dangers It can cause, Also the villain plan in this anime made Sense unlike Thanos one

The problem I have with the film (I was forced to watch it yesterday because it was my dad's birthday) is that half of the people in severely underpopulated places like Wakanda were killed off while half of the people in very overpopulated places were killed off as well without it really making any difference though.

Also, it was random killing, as opposed to say killing the most degenerate and weak.

If I was in charge I'd kill huge portions of very overpopulated populations and leave other places pretty much alone, and the portion killed would be the weakest and most degenerate.

This article is wrong and stupid on comic and real world levels. if you say the universe is infinite, what you mean is in size (and even that's probably not true) the resources in it are most definitely finite.

common misconception. third world countries have been achieving stable population growth (just around 2 kids per couple) countries having more than that has grown rarer.

You genuinely have autism, good fucking lord. I can smell your 4XL tshirt from here