I did some volunteer work in Costa Rica helping out the Leatherback Sea turtles for about 6 months last year. One of the discussions that often came up when talking to other volunteers was that, the decline in Sea turtle population was due to a Over Population of the human species.
Now to an extent i believe that we have greatly impacted on nature, but what surprised me was some peoples opinions on what should be done about it. Some of their solutions were things such as viruses, international birth control and of course adopting kids form some third world country.
What really shocked me was the idea of using a virus to cull the world population to save the planet. I would have to say though, at least he included himself as a sacrifice to the greater good of the planet.
However i doubt most people who believe the world is over populated would sacrifice themselves and for the cause.
It's been a notion held by idiots and children for a long time, that the Earth was a good in itself and not a resource. My advice is to not to stoop down to arguing with such lunatics.
huxx:However i doubt most people who believe the world is over populated would sacrifice themselves and for the cause.
Hey, if he's willing, tell him to end it. Do you know how many people he will have been responsible for producing a few generations from now if he has even one kid now?
Jackson LaRose: huxx:However i doubt most people who believe the world is over populated would sacrifice themselves and for the cause. Hey, if he's willing, tell him to end it. Do you know how many people he will have been responsible for producing a few generations from now if he has even one kid now?
So very well said.
Years ago Tom Clancy wrote a novel called Rainbow Six. The main characters, a crack Special Forces team, was confronted with Left-Wing terrorists committing seemingly random acts of violence. As the plot unfolded it was discovered these terrorists were really used as a blind by an elite group of very wealthy environmentalists planning to "depopulate" the earth by means of a lethal, bio-engineered virus which was to be released during the Olympics. Of course they had a vaccine available as well as a fortified retreat in the middle of the Amazonian forest: they weren't very keen to die for the cause, you see . In the best Tom Clancy tradition the good guys managed to defeat the bad guys and save the day.
Tom Clancy didn't invent nothing new: environmentalists have been more or less overtly talking about "culling people" for a good forty years now without nobody objecting in the least. While they may be seen as harmless sociopaths please remember that in most of Europe you can end up at the bar for questioning the number of Jews killed by Hitler and his cronies. "Population control" has been one of the Elegant Left's petty fantasies for decades now. A couple of worrying episodes from the Philippines and Central America hint there may already be "undercover" population control plans in place. But when population naturally declines below "replacement" values, like it has happened in Japan and Italy, they are scared to death nobody will pay their nice fat, undeserved pensions...
The problem with the concept of overpopulation is that it doesn't include the reality that some countries are rich with arable land which it isn't utilized very well. It's not that there's not enough food, space, water, and other necessities to go around, it's that there's too few willing to invest in the time to develop it.
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huxx: However i doubt most people who believe the world is over populated would sacrifice themselves and for the cause.
People from 10,000 years ago who claimed the world was overpopulated didn't sacrifice themselves for the "fact" either.