I just read in the Times online that David Attenborough is to be the patron of an organisation called the Optimum Population Trust, who campaign about the increasing problem of overpopulation of our planet. He has met some criticism from the kind of idiots who cannot see that the Earth has finite resources and is only able to sustain certain levels of human (or any other) population before food and land will become too scarce but personally I am glad to hear that such an organisation exists.
It is better to control population growth through education and birth control now rather than seeing large scale deaths due to disease and famine and a lack of resources in the future.
I believe that religion is a major factor in the problem of overpopulation, mainly due to the backwards stance of some major religions on contraception and the demented desire the religious seem to have to try and breed more followers of each particular religion in the hope that the increase in numbers will lead to some kind of world dominance.
Anyway, I digress. The article is here (beware there's a nasty picture of a scary 8-legged nasty on the same web page)
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it's a shame he's waited so long to bring it to public attention.. i've been chelping for years about disseminated primatemaia, but i'm not a national treasure or a politician so i have very little influence.
China knew their shit decades ago with their One Child policy.. it's just unfortunate that their culture makes having boys more desirable than girls, so after years of aborted girlies there are a lot of lonely guys out there..
The biggest obstacle we face in changing attitudes toward overpopulation is economists. Since the field of economics was branded "the dismal science" after Malthus' theory, economists have been adamant that they would never again consider the subject of overpopulation and continue to insist that man is ingenious enough to overcome any obstacle to further growth. This is why world leaders continue to ignore population growth in the face of mounting challenges like peak oil, global warming and a whole host of other environmental and resource issues. They believe we'll always find technological solutions that allow more growth.
But because they are blind to population growth, there's one obstacle they haven't considered: the finiteness of space available on earth. The very act of using space more efficiently creates a problem for which there is no solution: it inevitably begins to drive down per capita consumption and, consequently, per capita employment, leading to rising unemployment and poverty.
If you‘re interested in learning more about this important new economic theory, then I invite you to visit either of my web sites at OpenWindowPublishingCo.com or PeteMurphy.wordpress.com where you can read the preface, join in the blog discussion and, of course, buy the book if you like.
Please forgive the somewhat spammish nature of the previous paragraph, but I don't know how else to inject this new theory into the debate about overpopulation without drawing attention to the book that explains the theory.
Pete Murphy
Author, "Five Short Blasts"
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