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Until everyone learns to keep physics, chemistry and the ultimate laws of Nature in mind, all logic and therefore hope is futile. No amount of praying to god will stop Nature and physics from occurring.
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A true government is of the people and by the people. In the beginning of humans, there were tribes with a tribal chief. When the population got huge, then governments got huge. Do you really think that huge populations can exist without governments? There is no way not to have governments in our lives and cameras on every corner when we have 7 Billion walking around. Sorry folks, government will be sticking its nose into our private lives and if it is doing its job, it will mandate birth control. I don't like that, but what else are you going to do? Without mandated birth control, we are lost. Paul Erlich's wise words fell mostly upon deaf ears.
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And BOYS need to be deprogrammed into not assuming the entitlement of sexual conquest that says "boys will be boys" etc.
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Laura needs to read more about what the Union of Concerned Scientists have documented. They have real figures. They are current.
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If '"told" numbers of women' were properly educated not to produce so many mouths to feed then 'untold numbers' would not have to endure forced abortions and could choose elected abortions instead.
"saving the planet" really means: saving the quality of enjoyable human life upon it.
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I have been preaching adoption since the early 1970's. Sure hope it has had some effect. How will I ever know?
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Consider honoring and protecting abortion doctors and clinics everywhere and donating time to volunteer for them. Protect them from the madmen Pro-Lifers with guns who try to murder them. Look at that phrase. "Pro-Lifer with a gun".
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Remember the movie Soylent Green ! ! !
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Another thing, don't assume that you can ever stop looking at your own community and point to others instead. As long as there is even one unwanted Teenage pregnancy in an American town, there is work to do right here at home; in a country with the most wasteful consuming population on Earth! That's YOU and ME. Get a group of friends together and bombard our Leaders by phone and letters with the term Zero Population Growth.
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ZPG disappeared for several reasons but one is that people like you and me stopped talking about it every day.
Remember, the Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance
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Jenifer knows how to say it. The rich and super rich will start to decay and may suffer like Tzar Nicholas in 1917 when the cart begins to tip over. Who is to say WHEN the cart will begin to tip or the straw be placed to break the camel's back? I don't know, but I do know that it has been beginning to happen since scientists began noticing things in the late 1950's. We have been warned and warned again and the rabbits keep on multiplying. One of my solutions is that every senator and congressman have by his or her side a 'scientist mentor' to consult with before making any speeches or decisions, and that scientist will NOT be purchased, but will be appointed by the Union of Concerned Scientists. No matter how 'sci-fi' my ideas appear, at least I am thinking them and putting them out there.
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Kitty Roca, you better stop being "tired" and get with the program. We child free by choice people are helping ALL of humanity. Many of us DON'T feel superior ... some feel SAD that we cannot have a child purely by wanting one because we responsibly are being part of the solution by NOT having one. Many of us do not eat meat. Many of us take public transportation. Many of us do not buy anything except food and get our clothes at second hand shops. We also use baking soda and white vinegar for cleaning agents in the house. Many of us grow our own vegetables. You better be aware of whom you are talking to. There are many, many solutions to the main problem and some of us are addressing many at the same time.
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Anybody remember SOYLENT GREEN, the movie?
With all of the ignorant baby breeders pushing their strollers around and expecting the "seas to part" just because they are pushing thier precious bundles down the sidewalks, I also do not expect much to change soon enough.
The general population all over the world is at a very low level of intelligence and like lemmings, they will end up pushing those baby strollers right off the cliff and into the ocean. Unfortunately, I will be watching the show if I am still alive.
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Yep...... think globally, act locally. Wasn't that a motto of the 1970's ?
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scottmil---- seems to think that 'greed' can be eradicated from the human species. He does not know it is a reptilian reaction in the lower brain which existed far longer ago than recently. It existed before there was an overpopulation problem. He does not understand that with less humans, there will be less greed. Greed exists in all animals, including insects. It can be observed easily. It is an intrinsic animal reaction for survival. It is exacerbated by exponential growth of individual consumption.
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And after having two abortions and a tubal in the '70's, I was continuously accused of being "selfish".
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I remember the first EARTH DAY in 1970. I was so happy that the world seemed ready to pay attention. Boy, was I wrong! 40 years later and Earth Day never became what I thought it would.
What's it gonna take, people ! ?
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I, personally, find men kind of sexy who have had the wisdom to commit to a vasectomy out of their own volition.
Bravo to you, for getting one!
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Has anyone ever pondered a 'moratorium' on child birth? A scientist and statistician and economist who all believed in a reduction of world population would be the best to actually figure out what that would look like! I have often wondered.
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Education level of WOMEN ? How about you rephrase that to say "children". That gives BOTH genders the equal chance to be informed. But don't forget that RELIGION prevents lots of education in this world. And don't forget about how RAPE, all over the world affects population growth and unwanted children, especially during wars. My belief is that all people, world wide, should have 4 year college degrees in the study of Child Rearing, Child Nutrition, Child Psychology, Raising and understanding Teenagers, Adoption and Birth control (including all the different reasons and methods of Abortion) BEFORE they are allowed to make an application to get permission to gestate a child. What, you say? Not enough colleges? Well, then, let us people of the world make education the very first and most important thing in the world to promote and bring into being. Build colleges and pay teachers with tax dollars, rather than fuel war machines. Then we can have a chance at being intelligent about managing our species, don't you think? I also believe that all rapists should be shot on sight. That would surely be a deterrent to further rapes all over the planet, don't you think?
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