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The buzzword now in environmental circles is 'sustainability'.
So, we're at 7 billion people now, give or take. You all seems to think that's sustainable. Is there a number at which you might change your tune? How about 20 billion people? Would that be sustainable? Or, would you continue to argue that technology will always overcome the challenges of sustaining any number of people?
There is a certain kind of imbecile who sees a trend....any trend...and predicts that it will continue unabated.
You.
You probably wonder why babies don't continue to grow to be the size of a barn.
Never happens.
Have you noted the population trends in Europe??
Russia?
Islamic nations???
Hania Zlotnik, director of the population division at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said “In most of the Islamic world it’s amazing, the decline in fertility that has happened,’’ … From 1975 to 1980, women in Iran were giving birth to nearly 7 children per family, according to the latest U.N. population report; from 2005 to 2010 that number is expected to be less than 2. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/un-sees-big-drop-in-middle-east-fertility-rates/
"Environmentalists".....another term for really, really stupid people.
BTW.....the problem of decreasing population is so great in Turkey, that
"Turkey's President Slams Birth Control as 'Treason'"
Turkey s President Slams Birth Control as Treason
I haven't made any environmental predictions in USMB. I just asked a question.
This Ponzi scheme that our economy has become depends upon infinite growth and ever increasing rates of consumption in order to remain afloat. We live in a finite system. At some point, the shell game becomes unsustainable.
I think that's a rational position to take. It's also rational to identify with our home planet, and care for its health.
I saw a Chinese guy at the harbor the other day. He was asking for directions, in Chinese. Long story short, he throws his milk carton into the water. "No, no, no" I said, pointing to the garbage can right beside us. He motioned with his hands, indicating that his trash would sink. It was a case of a person just not grasping the concept of environmental responsibility.
You were just wringing your hands over the imaginary 'problem' of overpopulation.
It was pretty stupid of you, wasn't it.