Overpopulation

They didn't, it was mostly gone already.

These studies are meta analyses of further studies which take a sample of commercial farms all over the world and pop out an average figure of Kg CO2 per KG feed. Don't be surprised if theyre skewed largely by different farming practices in different countries & climates.

To know the true impact of Irish farming would take an Irish specific (or european wide equivalent) study of similar farming practices and their impact. US/Brazilian beef & dairy is a million miles away from Irish industry

Not a great chart tbf. One of the main problems with it and carbon emissions - is that it is a globalised figure from a sample of "selected" farms.

As an globalised figure it also includes huge amounts of carbon emissions for feed lot beef production in the US and deforestation in Brazil.

So the chart does not provide even a halfway realistic picture for say comparing beef or milk production here or the UK vs Brazil or America. Relying on this chart would be like trying to say that all vehicles produce the same amount of emissions - they don't.

This is true especially of those countries whose agricultural systems mainly rely on grassland. Which strangely enough receives no bonus points for carbon sequestration in that graph either. 🤔

But, do you want your kids and grandkids scrabbling over the best rocks and the tastiest slime?

Every child born (at least in the west) since about 1960 has been a choice. No different now even in Ireland. So, what kind of world do you think the child will have if you chose to inflict it on them?

Cement isn't far behind: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844. About 8%/per year global CO2 emissions come from cement production.

Like, for all those houses that'll be needed if population is allowed to continue to grow unchecked. But hey, if we're back in caves, cement won't matter much.

So, a miserable life is better than not existing. On that we'll have to disagree.

That time's passed. We're in a CO2 feedback cycle of ocean warming. There are plenty of people to find "solutions", actually, mitigations to the problems caused by overpopulation. Adding people to the planet only makes it worse.

How will pensions be paid for?

Stop with the racism. "Most African cultures" yadda dadda. And a liberal dose of 'we need more westerners.' If everyone agrees to 1 child, there's less misery to go around. You're missing my point - at the CO2 levels today, at the population levels today, we're in for it, horrible weather, droughts, wildfires, floods, rising oceans and massive starvation and migration. All we can do is mitigate for the future residents by not creating too many of them.

Or, ride bikes, drive electric cars, install solar panels and watch the world burn till we burn too. Your choice.

This is a weird "final solution" view of the world.

I am not at all optimistic about "AI" or Eric Schmidt for that matter. Don't forget he is a billionaire who lives a lavish lifestyle like the rest of his tech billionaire buddies.

The way these tech companies are pushing things is that the general population gets ever more marginalised. This has been going on for years

*Sell up your farm - let the local corporate farm run it with their fleet of robots

*Hand in your shotgun - you don't need it anymore

*Don't own a car - summon a robo taxi with an app instead

*Don't own a house - live in a modern albeit small high density apartment paid for by your Universal Basic Income

*Bored? Plug yourself into the metaverse, indulge in a fantasy life made of pixels

*Be tracked wherever you go and be placated constant stream of misinformation through your phone

If people actually buy into the life mentioned above, I don't think many of them will feel the need to reproduce. I don't think the robot-owning upper class and the likes of Mr. Schmidt are going to give up their superyachts because everyone else has surrendered to the above lifestyle. In fact it will only free up resources for them to swoop in and gobble up.

I think we are already being codded by these tech companies in a major way - phones, cars and even houses take less human labour to build than ever before yet their prices have never been higher. A lot of the money ends up with tech companies and parasitic middlemen like Amazon.

How does that make your point.

Nearly all of South Wicklow alone was under wood in 1580. The vast clearance alone of the 1640s wiped out 2 wood land bird species from Ireland.

I get it you are waving the Jack hard but the evidence of recorded woods is substantial here and when they were felled and why.