Posted on 07/22/2007 6:32:07 AM PDT by liberallarry
The new head of the Science Museum has an uncompromising view about how global warming should be dealt with: get rid of a few billion people. Chris Rapley, who takes up his post on September 1, is not afraid of offending. 'I am not advocating genocide,' said Rapley. 'What I am saying is that if we invest in ways to reduce the birthrate - by improving contraception, education and healthcare - we will stop the world's population reaching its current estimated limit of between eight and 10 billion. That in turn will mean less carbon dioxide is being pumped into the atmosphere because there will be fewer people to drive cars and use electricity. The crucial point is that to achieve this goal you would only have to spend a fraction of the money that will be needed to bring about technological fixes, new nuclear power plants or renewable energy plants. However, everyone has decided, quietly, to ignore the issue.'
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
Oh NO, not this old saw again. Nothing new under the sun, indeed.
Denude the planet as well because plants give off carbon dioxide at night.
Oh, I don't know.
The movie "Logan's Run" raised the issue decades ago and didn't get much discussion either.
I agree. My first question to a blathering Watermelon is, "How many kids/'planet-killers' you got?"
This schtick is so... 1970’s, where is Paul Ehrlich when we need him ?
To paraphrase Mark Steyn :
According to the greenies the best thing you can do for your kids is not have any....
I have an Idea, cut our birth rate to zero growth and bring in workers from Mexico to pick up the slack in the labor market.
Tell it to the Muslims.
I’m all for a stable population but for America, cutting the birth rate isn’t the answer. Americans need to have enough children to keep a stable rate and we need to stop importing the 3rd world to drop babies.
Sadly the mindset of the greenies is that this would pave the way to Utopia for our kid's...
I actually don’t have a problem with stabilizing the population. At some point, too many people will have a detrimental effect. Unfortunately, you have unchecked population growth in the Third World. At the same time, you have negative population growth in the Industrialized world (not just the West).
The result is that the Third World is increasingly trying to come here instead of making their own countries better. Of course, business loves this cause they want new consumers to grow at any cost. For the rest of us, it just means degraded quality of life.
I also fault our consumerist culture for the failure of white people to adequately reproduce themselves. We have become so career focused, materialist, and self indulgent, that we have lost sight of what is really important.
We all died in the world wide food famine that came in the 1970's. Which was right before we all died in the Ice Age of the 1980's.
So chill out, we're really not here.
(btw Mr Rapley, I'm pretty sure someone laced your stash with LSD.)
I’ve got my five and I feel like having some more after reading the poop from the brains who think they have all the answers.
Chris would you be good enough to go to the nearest high bridge and kindly jump off. Then, we only need a few billion less one left.
You jackass.
The birth rate has declined in every country as that country has developed a modern economy.
Only parts of Africa and a few muslim countries have what would be considered a high birth rate today and even those are falling every year. Saudi Arabia, for example, is down to 4 children per woman versus 7 just a decade ago.
The world population is estimate to peak out at 8.6 billion (not 10) which is not much higher than today’s 6.6 billion.
Is that true? Can you cite your sources?
Cut back population in Africa and Arabic countries.
That’ll work.
The Sacrament of Abortion is a gift to Gaia.
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