Added: Aug 20, 2008
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The population is booming and Mike Hanauer of Zero Population Growth considers that the world's leading environmental problem. Population growth is already straining the world's environmental and energy resources. If current trends continue, the population of the U.S. could reach a half-billion in the next century and world population could triple to 14 billion. Hanauer speaks of what needs to be done to stem the population explosion.
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ManicEightBall Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - You act like I haven't said anything. You aren't coming up with any reason why I'm wrong. I'll check back in a few weeks to see if you actually respond to what I said.Also, check out that video. Tell me what's wrong about it.
pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To ManicEightBall:I can't answer every concern in this confined space.Let's go with your figure. 50 or 60 years=twice as many people. Are you telling me, that humans can't build a city in 50 years??? And yet we put a man on the moon, in only a few years? For each 1 person, then there's 2 people. So 1 house, becomes 2 houses. You can't buy or build a house in 50 years? And yet people pay off a house in 30 years or less? And U don't even have to build the house,unless your kids never move out?
pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To ManicEightBall:Sounds to me like, maybe it's you who isn't even trying, other than to make flimsy excuses why humanity can't go forward.The video? Yeah, I have watched it, and several other copycat videos. 1)It's overdramaticized. Solid white continents don't even mean "full" lands. 2)The long time scale cleverly hides contraceptive-induced "Demographic Transition." 3)White dots don't convey immense value of every human life. 4)Heartbeat=natural flow of human life=confused fuzzy message.
pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To ManicEightBall:Isn't it weird, how some well-dressed, almost fat guy, or how liberals meet to drink cocktails and talk about solving the drug problem? How apparently almost rich, almost fat people, who dress well, meet in some lofty air-conditioned studio, to pretend to have a "discussion" about what to do about the supposed "overpopulation" problem, when really, it's a PR stunt, and they apparently don't suffer the problems of which they feign to worry about. Smug know-nothingsThe IRONY!
RATHAHONNI Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Seems as though if two countries were bottled up or not allowed to export people it would really help the problem.India and China seem to be running amok with their populations so their moving to all parts of the Earth if no one took their immigrants they would have to deal with their own overpopulation.that would be a good start to the problem.Don't give them a bigger fish bowl!
ManicEightBall Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - insulting people isn't the same as backing up your opinions. Tell me how we are supposed to accommodate 12 billion, or 24, or 48. What are we going to do then?
pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To RATHAHONNI:No, "bottling up" countries is a bad idea. Wildlife can cross political/national boundaries, so there should be some proper way for people to cross boundaries as well, especially people from "civilized" countries. Look at how "huge" pop of China and India is growing. We are all in this together, they say. Maybe it increasingly takes the entire planet to hold everybody? So people should have free reign of the entire planet thenSure, emmigration shouldn't be 1st option,but a tool
pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To ManicEightBall:Pop is what it is. Our ancestors knew that, how did we forget? Because we buy into false ideas of socialism, world domination, power-mad globalist taking over and ruining everything. God is in charge, not power-mad globalists. Therefore, humans have no right to "control" other people's reproduction. It's enough that parents take care of and provide for their children. Parents need not have to explain why they have so many children. We should already understand why and approve
pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To ManicEightBall (continued):Insulting people? Where? How?How are we supposed to accomodate 12 billion, 24 or 48 billion? Simple. We pray to God, and ask God for what we need. Why must man know all the answers right away, when man apparently has such a SMALL mind that he is slow to understand anyway? Why be intellectually lazy? Lazily parrotting discredited, passé overpop Nazi-eugenics theories. Study more science or something.Just like growing families, we figure it out as we go.
pronatalist Says:
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pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To ManicEightBall (round wrap-up):So why should I back up my opinions anyway? People should already know it's a basic human (God-given) right to have our children. I shouldn't have to "prove" that to you. If you don't know that, what's wrong with your lack of education that you hadn't heard of that already?server failure to post error
pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To ManicEightBall (round wrap-up):How to accomodate 12 billion? Simple. Do what we are already used to. Build more suburbs, more cities, people need the jobs anyway. Build more dams and roads. More power plants. Do it again.
teton99 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Even in sheer numbers, though, there is growing evidence that the world's population is heading toward stability. The growth rate of the world's population appears to have peaked around 1970, when the annual rate of growth was 2.09 percent. By 1980, annual population growth was down to 1.73 percent, and by 1990 to 1.7 percent. By 1995, the annual increase had slowed even more to 1.5 percent. Daily Policy Digest Archive Overpopulation Myths
teton99 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - DEMOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING, Laviano is not unique in Italy, or in Europe. In fact, it may be a harbinger. In the 1990s, European demographers began noticing a downward trend in population across the Continent and behind it a sharply falling birthrate Non-number-crunchers largely ignored the information until a 2002 study by Italian, German and Spanish social scientists focused the data and gave policy makers across the European Union something to ponder No Babies?NYT Mag By RUSSELL SHORTO
teton99 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Birth rates throughout Europe are falling to dangerously low levels. The problem is especially pronounced in Germany. Demographers there predict the country's population will shrink by over 12 million in the next decades, with the average age will increasing significantly. Kyle James reports.All Things Considered, March 4, 2004 NPR
teton99 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - MOSCOW, July 29 (RIA Novosti) -- Death rates in Russia exceeded birth rates by 1.7 times in the first half of 2005, according to statistical data published on the Trade and Economic Development Ministry's website. According to the official data, death rates in 27 regions of Russia exceeded birth rates by 2-3 times. Overall, during the first half of this year, 507,300 people were born and 998,500 died, leading to a natural population decrease of 401,200 people.
teton99 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Overpopulation another liberal/Marxists' myth: Europe's birthrate is below the replacement rate & America is not far behind. Plus there is much open land in the USA & Europe as well. People love to settle in cities hence they are crowed, but not because there is no where else to go.
khattamshud Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - let these idiots breed themselves out of existence. there will only be room for the strong in years to come.
tc4701m Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking. stop fucking.
brendenc93 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Ok thats fuckin bullshit. They shouldnt limit the amount of children you have. That means nobody is going to have any brothers or sisters. I know in china they have a law were you can only have 1 child. Thats just wrong. And if you do have more than 1 you have to get an abortion. But what about peoples religion. Some religions say you cant get an abortion. Then what???
yoyey Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - lets go to irak and kill some humans
pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To brendenc93:But what about people's religion? Good question, for it shows that people of a particular religion, atheism/communism/evolution, have little or no respect for other religions, and yet what evidence have they provided that their religion is true, or for everybody? They don't even admit it to be a religion?There should be no imposed limit on how many babies push out of people's bodies. It's completely natural process, much like breathing. People want to pop up denser? Let them!
riciard55 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - oh no p-lease no more not enough food to go around we a f u c --------d
stuntcat666 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - one species is causing a mass-extinction and trashing the world faster every day. I feel sorry for the babies I see. I'm not looking forward to what I'll see in the next 40-50 years I'll live. I cry every day about what we do to the rest of the animals, we're raping this whole world.
pronatalist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - To ManicEightBall:Thanks for the compliment.But why do you cling to the old tired argument of the pop phobics? If we don't control our #s, nature will. Wrong. Nature won't. Why do you think we're so numerous now? Nature adapts and prefers the "new balance." Humans especially ADAPT. They bring that old quaint arugment up, like beating a dead horse. They don't even want to go forwards, but to force us backwards. But as they say, "There is no going back."We will not be confined here forever.