tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post711552807849128432..comments2024-03-20T16:30:09.690-05:00Comments on The Fifth Column: The Curious Case of World PopulationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-86148101900674864872012-06-11T09:44:04.515-05:002012-06-11T09:44:04.515-05:00Katy, the only thing that is unsustainable is the ...Katy, the only thing that is unsustainable is the materialist consumerism we indulge in. We have chosen things over people. We want more stuff, and fewer people to share them with. <br /><br />If you really want to understand the overpopulation movement, look at the motives they refuse to recognize. Few of them are volunteering to consume less stuff. In fact, of the few who do consume less stuff, they are quite arrogant about it. Near where I live, they consume expensive, inefficiently produced organic food so that they can look down on us slobs eating regular food. They ride bicycles that cost as much as a used car, and the bikes always look really funky so you can tell it's an environmentally conscious person riding it. Environmentalism is advocated for purposes of raising one's social status, not for actually protecting the environment. My family likely consumes less energy per person than most environmentalists because with 10 people we have very efficient economies of scale, yet my children are considered more of a danger to the environment that Al Gore's mansion that uses more energy than an entire village in the Third World, whose members are also considered a threat to the environment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-78345356402162116342012-06-11T03:39:26.789-05:002012-06-11T03:39:26.789-05:00I firmly believe with all my heart;
Babies are nic...I firmly believe with all my heart;<br />Babies are nice to hold. <br />Large families are fun.<br />We all die in the end. <br /><br />Does that mean I've a prisoner of <br />ideology? <br /><br />Find one joy filled elderly person of any culture or nationality, and ask;<br />"Would you have had more children if you could have?"Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03228323311972752793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-45281603871500689862012-06-10T10:14:11.325-05:002012-06-10T10:14:11.325-05:00Yeah, but I really haven't been convinced that...Yeah, but I really haven't been convinced that we know enough about these topics to create a model that is worth a darn. By anyone. At all.<br /><br />Folks are very much prisoners of their ideologies when it comes to making conclusions regarding population. <br /><br />Therefore, it's rarely informative when people tell me that there's a right answer, we know it, and it's simple.<br /><br />But I have and I will keep reading, nonetheless. I never know...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-24781544215116915162012-06-10T09:20:57.409-05:002012-06-10T09:20:57.409-05:00Katy,
As I pointed out, the more people the earth...Katy,<br /><br />As I pointed out, the more people the earth has, the less overpopulated it is.<br /><br />James Lovelock is simply wrong.Steve Kellmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509461318016670424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-57673584088638256852012-06-10T09:15:29.383-05:002012-06-10T09:15:29.383-05:00Without true Christianity, mankind has a built in ...Without true Christianity, mankind has a built in death wish. Instead of being fruitful and multipling, we have made ourselves barren and subtracting by rebelling against our Creators command.Steve "scotju" Daltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17864544146213840928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-9748068753442581062012-06-09T23:46:29.273-05:002012-06-09T23:46:29.273-05:00Population is a weird thing.
Climatologist James...Population is a weird thing. <br /><br />Climatologist James Lovelock says the Earth can probably permanently sustain a population of 100 million (NOT 7 billion), but it would depend on what those 100 million were doing. <br /><br />Like you said, poor people used to have fewer children - in part because they could keep fewer alive to adulthood. Our philanthropy might soon lead to there being 3 billion starving people on the continent of Africa instead of the 1 billion there are now - while 1st world pops stagnate or fall. <br /><br />Is that a good or bad thing?<br /><br />It boggles my mind... Seems like it ought to boggle everybody else's too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com