Ravenwood - 09/28/07 07:00 AM
As a preview to it's "Planet in Peril" series, CNN offers a story entitled, Overpopulation could be people, planet problem.
Consequences of overpopulationThis all sounds a bit familiar. Oh yeah, party like it's 1968.
Overpopulation occurs when a population's density exceeds the capacity of the environment to supply the health requirements of an individual, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.Environmentalists have long been concerned about the resources threatened by rapidly growing human populations, focusing on phenomenon such as deforestation, desertification, air pollution and global warming. But the worst-case scenario for people experiencing overpopulation, according to Lawrence Smith, president of the Population Institute, is a lack of fresh, clean water.
"If the water goes, the species goes," he said.
The Population Bomb (1968) is a book written by Paul R. Ehrlich. A best-selling work, it predicted disaster for humanity due to overpopulation and the "population explosion". The book predicted that "in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death", that nothing can be done to avoid mass famine greater than any in the history, and radical action is needed to limit the overpopulation.
The solution to fresh water shortages is gobs of electricity for desalination plants. In other words, nuclear power plants generating electricity. The cursed French have been getting the vast majority of all their electrical power needs from nuclear power.
Unfortunately they have not invested in desalination plants to provide bathing water as well.
THe solution to overpopulation is to start by starting a contraception program that is forced in Sub Haran Africa and INdia, Mexico and all developing nations that have too many children. No more than two children per female, and that is it. As a matter of fact,I think worldwide that should be forced. Desalination plants would mess with the oceans which we have screwed up enough already.
The quality of life goes down for everyone with too many people being born. Also those that come in to a hospital pregnant and drunk or high on drugs should be sterilized the same should go for child abusers.
Just how does a child in subsaharan Africa affect my quality of life?
Posted by: Ravenwood at October 1, 2007 7:44 AMWhat overpopulation?
Even the UN and WHO have noticed declining fertility and aging populations. Here’s a quote from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division report, "World Population Ageing 2007":
"Because fertility levels are unlikely to rise again to the high levels common in the past, population ageing is irreversible and the young populations that were common until recently are likely to become rare over the course of the twenty-first century."
Of course, fertility rates vary and even though the decline is global, Africa and the Middle East are coming off very lofty peaks. http://www.un.org/esa/population/pubsarchive/fer/fermap.htm
Should make for some fascinating demographic flux in the coming decades. Fasten your seatbelts, interesting times ahead.
Let's see. Choice for abortion, but no choice for sterilization. There ya go, babe. You've come a long way.
"Desalination plants would mess with the oceans..."
WTF. Just how do you figure that? Removing salt from sea water is harmful in what way??
Posted by: mikem at October 2, 2007 6:33 AMMore lies from CNN and BIG BAD WOLF BLITZER and more poppycock bulll kaka from over population wack PAUL ERLICH who wrote his poppycock book THE POPULATION BOMB and THE POPULATION EXPLOSION how about if they tried euthinasia and start with erlich himself and all those other over populationists wackos
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