The growth of the human population is bad
Thanks to Jack Martin for this article from the San Diego News.
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Growth is bad. You rarely hear that statement in any context in America these days. But it is true. Americans have been brainwashed into believing that all growth, unless it pertains to cancer, is unquestionably a good thing. But let’s think about that. Would we want the world population to grow until people were standing shoulder to shoulder on all of the Earth’s land? No, right? OK, that means we recognize that population growth must stop at some point, and not just slow down, either. So we’re not debating whether population growth has to come to a complete halt, we’re only talking about when.
Note that though the well meaning Al Gore thinks that global warming is the big thing to worry about, he has completely neglected the root cause. It doesn’t even matter if humans are responsible for global warming. They so clearly are the cause of so much other trouble, and it’s because there are too many people. All the world leaders are concerned about how to feed, clothe, and supply water and energy to the growing multitudes. Sophisticated agricultural, water desalination, and purification, and energy production methods are being researched and developed. But all this effort will prove futile if world population continues to grow. We live on a finite planet. Growth will simply overwhelm the attempted remedies.
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May 2nd, 2010 at 6:17 am
Please pass around the following link. I would like to invite out-of-the-box thinking to the most formidable of human-driven global challenges.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/population-overshoot-is-determined-by-food-overproduction/
Thank you to all for all you are doing,
Steve
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:46 am
Please note the words in my presentation just above related to feeding people. With the abundant food harvests available in the world today, there is no reason why the entire membership of the human family cannot be fed. The problem is not food production, I suppose, but rather more fair and equitable food distribution. Every person on the surface of Earth … See Morecould be fed if there was the political will to assure such an occurrence.
Think of yourself as a member of a species numbering almost 6.8 billion on a relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planet with the actual physical size, make-up and ecology of Earth. At least to me, the implications appear potentially profound for future human wellbeing, global biodiversity and environmental health should the leaders of the family of humanity choose to continue expanding in a seemingly endless way the current unbridled, large-scale, corporate production of food.
Please consider that the failure to see correctly the cause/effect relationship between food supply and population numbers could be the most colossal misperception in our lifetime. It will please me to be proven wrong about this, but the research by Hopfenberg/Pimentel (http://www.panearth.org…/) appears naturally persuasive and has not yet been sensibly challenged, as far as I can tell.