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hindy111

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On climate change are we thinking outside the box?
It seems we want ways to keep our capitalist lifestyles the same but by reducing energy .
We could reduce population or perhaps find a way to make humans smaller. We are getting bigger in size. Imagine we reverse the bigger is better attitude. And start shrinking. Imagine getting humans to 6 - 12 inches big. We would eat less, live in smaller houses and have smaller cars. Our consumption would be heavily reduced.

Possible? Unsure but worth looking into.
 

strider

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On climate change are we thinking outside the box?
It seems we want ways to keep our capitalist lifestyles the same but by reducing energy .
We could reduce population or perhaps find a way to make humans smaller. We are getting bigger in size. Imagine we reverse the bigger is better attitude. And start shrinking. Imagine getting humans to 6 - 12 inches big. We would eat less, live in smaller houses and have smaller cars. Our consumption would be heavily reduced.

Possible? Unsure but worth looking into.
Doable ... we kill off all the population over 5' tall ... solving 2 problems right there

Who's gonna kill em? Or do we take one for the world and kill ourselves
 

hindy111

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Doable ... we kill off all the population over 5' tall ... solving 2 problems right there

Who's gonna kill em? Or do we take one for the world and kill ourselves

I was thinking adding something to our diet so people are born small.
In 100yrs every merkin will be over 7ft and 120kgs.
And we need people to stop traveling so far. Can't we create more jobs out west Sydney for example? Why are so many offices in the CBD?
 

strider

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I was thinking adding something to our diet so people are born small.
In 100yrs every merkin will be over 7ft and 120kgs.
And we need people to stop traveling so far. Can't we create more jobs out west Sydney for example? Why are so many offices in the CBD?
I kept telling them they should have built Barangaroo at St Marys but they wouldnt have a bar of it
 

Gary Gutful

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On climate change are we thinking outside the box?
It seems we want ways to keep our capitalist lifestyles the same but by reducing energy .
We could reduce population or perhaps find a way to make humans smaller. We are getting bigger in size. Imagine we reverse the bigger is better attitude. And start shrinking. Imagine getting humans to 6 - 12 inches big. We would eat less, live in smaller houses and have smaller cars. Our consumption would be heavily reduced.

Possible? Unsure but worth looking into.
They did it for Honey I Shrunk The Kids and that was 30 years ago!
 
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I was thinking adding something to our diet so people are born small.
In 100yrs every merkin will be over 7ft and 120kgs.
And we need people to stop traveling so far. Can't we create more jobs out west Sydney for example? Why are so many offices in the CBD?
Height seems to be levelling off. Americans have actually started shrinking. I wonder why...


In the tallest countries a century ago — the US, Canada and Nordic countries — there has been relatively little change. In fact, growth stopped in the US in the early 1970s and there has been a slight decline in height there since 2000, partly due to falling nutritional standards.

https://www.ft.com/content/64d6dbc0-5275-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef
 

Noise

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Height seems to be levelling off. Americans have actually started shrinking. I wonder why...


In the tallest countries a century ago — the US, Canada and Nordic countries — there has been relatively little change. In fact, growth stopped in the US in the early 1970s and there has been a slight decline in height there since 2000, partly due to falling nutritional standards.

https://www.ft.com/content/64d6dbc0-5275-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef

I think it is due to the popularity of small ball in the NBA
 

Gary Gutful

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Height seems to be levelling off. Americans have actually started shrinking. I wonder why...


In the tallest countries a century ago — the US, Canada and Nordic countries — there has been relatively little change. In fact, growth stopped in the US in the early 1970s and there has been a slight decline in height there since 2000, partly due to falling nutritional standards.

https://www.ft.com/content/64d6dbc0-5275-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef
More uptake of Keto.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Height seems to be levelling off. Americans have actually started shrinking. I wonder why...


In the tallest countries a century ago — the US, Canada and Nordic countries — there has been relatively little change. In fact, growth stopped in the US in the early 1970s and there has been a slight decline in height there since 2000, partly due to falling nutritional standards.

https://www.ft.com/content/64d6dbc0-5275-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef
It would have to be partly due to falling nutritional standards.
 
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