‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/us/18poverty.html?_r=1 Cognitive disconnect.
The local gentry were horrified when they learned that the wogs, oops, I mean, the population of Earth had passed the one billion mark — over 110 years ago — and got all worried about the Malthusian nonsense again. That nonsense never quite goes away, but it’s entirely ex cathedra (that is, not based on actual data) and politically driven.
If we’re going to make sustainable changes in the population growth and pollution, we need to annihilate the billion or so Moslems and just get it over with. The population growth among Moslems will *double* their suicide-bombing coercion-minded single-party-state-loving population in less than forty years, during which time around half of the population of the industrialized world will have died of old age and natural causes.
The one-child population policy of China will be 70 years old in forty years (closer to 80 years old), and has already produced the forty million or so “surplus” men who will have no family to care for them (no siblings, no nieces or nephews, no children or grandchildren); aging parents will have to be cared for by just one child, and that will begin even sooner. Elder care will be an enormous growth industry in China, and much of that labor will probably have to come from war-torn Moslem countries or Asian countries where similar reverse-pyramid population patterns have had less severe consequences.
Consumption Dwarfs Population as Main Environmental Threat
13 Apr 2009: Opinion
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/consumption_dwarfs_population_as_main_environmental_threat/2140/
http://www.overpopulation.org/faq.html
[snip] If fertility remained at current levels, the population would reach the absurd figure of 296 billion in just 150 years. Even if it dropped to 2.5 children per woman and then stopped falling, the population would still reach 28 billion. [end]
Peak Oil, Carrying Capacity and Overshoot:
Population, the Elephant in the Room — Revisited
Posted by Gail the Actuary on September 8, 2010 — 10:30am
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6924
http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Population.html
http://www.vspop.org/htm/article01.htm
Big Era Eight
A Half Century of Crisis [get that? A crisis that lasted most of a human lifetime?]
1900-1950 CE
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/eras/era8.php
‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/us/18poverty.html?_r=1