On Apr 9, 1:57*pm, flipper wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:27:32 -0700 (PDT), "Watt? Me worry?"
wrote:
On Apr 8, 8:47*am, flipper wrote:
TheN go complain about it in the African or Latin American continents
newsgroups because population growth is not a 'problem' in
industrialized nations.
Hi RATs!
OK, OK, we do not have too many people, just not enough jobs...
pretense is all in the phrasing.
Not "pretense." More like nonsensical spin.
We did not 'over populate into a recession'. The cause is elsewhere.
The vast majority were employed before the recession (where were the
'too many babies' then?) so, unless you're proposing to assassinate
those without a job to make the unemployment figures look better,
specious claims like 'it's a population problem' contributes nothing.
There is no problem we cannot deny 
Speak for yourself, paleface (Tonto to the Lone Ranger's comment
"we're in trouble now" when surrounded by 1,000 hostile 'Indians')
The world is rapidly becoming dominated by humans. We are even
changing the weather.
If we double world population and everyone expects to have a standard
of living equal to the average North American standards, then where
will the resources come from? where will the food and water come from?
I guess we can afford to cause the extinction of 3/4 of all known
plant and animal species just so we can get food and minerals and
materials for our use. But by saying population doubling most people
think about the next 50 or 100 years. But what of another 1,000 years,
or 10,000years? Such time spreads are quite small compared to how it
took before modern life became possible with McDonald's golden arches,
dentists and the Pill.
Now by about 1800, the world looked like there would always be
limitless resources. At that time and most people didn't live very
long or use much stuff in their short lifetimes.
Louis the 14th may well have spent up bigtime at Versailles, but him
and his entourage were a tiny fraction of that world.
But now everyone wants to live like a little king, queen, prince or
princess.
Everyone wants too much.
I gotta tellya, the Earth can kick back !!!!!!
I think you should read the latest book by James Lovelock, The Revenge
of Gaia. Also see
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...e-mankind.html
Apart from living on $10,000 per anum and never having any kids, there
isn't anything you can legally do to prevent the worst things of
future from happening.
Patrick Turner
Happy Ears!
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