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  Overpopulation

  Great articles! A colleague at VHEMT.org shared this with the discussion group today. Just wanted to throw out a little more brain candy on this subject in the form of a few quotes:

  "The road to the future leads us smack into the wall and we simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. The wall is a demographic explosion that triggers social chaos and spreads death, nuclear delirium and the quasi-annihilation of the species... Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years."     -Jacques Cousteau (1910 - 1997)

  "The prevailing view holds that a stable population that does not tax the environment's "carrying capacity" would be sustainable indefinitely, and that this state of equilibrium can be achieved through a combination of birth control, conservation, and reliance on "renewable" resources. Unfortunately, worldwide implementation of a rigorous program of birth control is politically impossible. Conservation is futile as long as population continues to rise. And no resources are truly renewable."     -"Energy and Human Evolution" by David Price

  "Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."     -Pardot Kynes, First Planetologist of Arrakis

  "There not need be any more people in the world than one can get to know in a lifetime." - Unknown

  "I question whether technological growth can keep us ahead of the consumption wolf pack. Particularly if we're trying to export a consumption-based economy to the whole world. At some point we need to say enough is enough."  -Kurt Yeager, president and CEO of the industry-funded Electrical Power Research Institute

  "You're not actually mammals. Every mammal on the planet naturally develops equilibrium with their surrounding environment. You humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern, a virus. You're a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague and we are the cure."    - The Matrix (Film)

  "Relief for hungry children is nothing but a symptom of accelerated ignorance, unaware of how a world forecloses on invading circumstance." - Roy Harper's "Ghost Dance"On When it comes to having kids, this global citizen can't bear it posted 3 years, 10 months ago 13 Responses

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  Overpopulation

  Great articles! A colleague at VHEMT.org shared this with the discussion group today. Just wanted to throw out a little more brain candy on this subject in the form of a few quotes:

  "The road to the future leads us smack into the wall and we simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. The wall is a demographic explosion that triggers social chaos and spreads death, nuclear delirium and the quasi-annihilation of the species... Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years."     -Jacques Cousteau (1910 - 1997)

  "The prevailing view holds that a stable population that does not tax the environment's "carrying capacity" would be sustainable indefinitely, and that this state of equilibrium can be achieved through a combination of birth control, conservation, and reliance on "renewable" resources. Unfortunately, worldwide implementation of a rigorous program of birth control is politically impossible. Conservation is futile as long as population continues to rise. And no resources are truly renewable."     -"Energy and Human Evolution" by David Price

  "Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."     -Pardot Kynes, First Planetologist of Arrakis

  "There not need be any more people in the world than one can get to know in a lifetime." - Unknown

  "I question whether technological growth can keep us ahead of the consumption wolf pack. Particularly if we're trying to export a consumption-based economy to the whole world. At some point we need to say enough is enough."  -Kurt Yeager, president and CEO of the industry-funded Electrical Power Research Institute

  "You're not actually mammals. Every mammal on the planet naturally develops equilibrium with their surrounding environment. You humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern, a virus. You're a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague and we are the cure."    - The Matrix (Film)

  "Relief for hungry children is nothing but a symptom of accelerated ignorance, unaware of how a world forecloses on invading circumstance." - Roy Harper's "Ghost Dance"On Population activist David Nova took his message to the trail posted 3 years, 10 months ago 13 Responses

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  Overpopulation

  Great articles! A colleague at VHEMT.org shared this with the discussion group today. Just wanted to throw out a little more brain candy on this subject in the form of a few quotes:

  "The road to the future leads us smack into the wall and we simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. The wall is a demographic explosion that triggers social chaos and spreads death, nuclear delirium and the quasi-annihilation of the species... Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years."     -Jacques Cousteau (1910 - 1997)

  "The prevailing view holds that a stable population that does not tax the environment's "carrying capacity" would be sustainable indefinitely, and that this state of equilibrium can be achieved through a combination of birth control, conservation, and reliance on "renewable" resources. Unfortunately, worldwide implementation of a rigorous program of birth control is politically impossible. Conservation is futile as long as population continues to rise. And no resources are truly renewable."     -"Energy and Human Evolution" by David Price

  "Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."     -Pardot Kynes, First Planetologist of Arrakis

  "There not need be any more people in the world than one can get to know in a lifetime." - Unknown

  "I question whether technological growth can keep us ahead of the consumption wolf pack. Particularly if we're trying to export a consumption-based economy to the whole world. At some point we need to say enough is enough."  -Kurt Yeager, president and CEO of the industry-funded Electrical Power Research Institute

  "You're not actually mammals. Every mammal on the planet naturally develops equilibrium with their surrounding environment. You humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern, a virus. You're a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague and we are the cure."    - The Matrix (Film)

  "Relief for hungry children is nothing but a symptom of accelerated ignorance, unaware of how a world forecloses on invading circumstance." - Roy Harper's "Ghost Dance"On Is too few people the new "population problem"? posted 3 years, 10 months ago 13 Responses