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on The "P" Word and Climate Change
A friend says and I quite agree: there is a one-word diagnosis for ALL the world's ills and that word is OVERPOPULATION. There is a one-word cure for all the world's ills and that word is EDUCATION.
When every life is precious and not considered disposable while fighting over increasingly scarce resources, there will be a reduction in war, sickness, poverty and starvation.
Facilitating overpopulation leads to exploitation by the few for the few of those too poorly educated by default or desire to fight back.
2012 can't come quickly enough, in my view, because frankly I don't think the problem CAN be fixed. There are too many vested interests of the exploiters, the powerful, the rich and superrich. Imagine! One of today's BIG stories was how well some exploiters did during the Great Recession (Second Great Depression). Imagine! Making BILLIONS for your hedge fund while people are starving, sickening and dying everywhere. Imagine! Our government handing essentially a health insurance company bailout to bloated unethical corporations with obscene profits while those unable to afford medical care die at the rate of tens of thousands per year.
Like I say - when there is less population then every life becomes precious.
We are an earth inhabited by babymills.
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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Well all this is quite nice, Scottmil but - weren't you the one in the previous Comments section that dealt peripherally with this issue (child free by choice) that advocated killing yourself if you didn't want to have kids, by some strangely reasoned mandate? I hope it wasn't you. I hope I am mistaken. At any rate, I suppose if everyone who didn't want to have kids killed themselves I guess we could be considered excellent martyrs for the cause.
The reality is if even ten percent of the world's (over)population took the no-kids pledge then in just a few years we'd have a really REALLY good start on the global food/climate/resources problem.
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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I would like to add that the producers and participants in television shows glorifying mass reproduction should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Having eight, ten, twenty kids is just plain irresponsible.
I also think that "Octomom" - as a start - should be billed every single month for the size of her litter's carbon footprint, not to mention the money taxpayers are having to contribute to the support of said litter. I don't feel there is any reason good enough or any excuse sound enough for having this many offspring.
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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I think most people do not want to be told they need to limit how many times they reproduce themselves. "Right to life" doesn't just describe abortion issues. Right wingers do not want anything getting in the way of making more babies hopefully for The Church so as I'm sure anyone who has read any international news over the past ten or twenty years knows, birth control is a very big no no for foreign aid. From food security to overcrowding and the vicious abuse it brings to global warming, overpopulation is key. But you better be veeeerrrrryyyy careful who you say that to! Those of us who are closet ZPGers have figured out that the majority do NOT want to hear about anything getting in the way of their having more and more AND MORE babies. Some people who are against population overgrowth are that way because they are very weary of seeing their tax dollars going to support those who have offspring they can't themselves pay the way for. Others are watching with frightened intensity the global effects of just...too...many...people.
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