Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/09/2010 5:18:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv
More than 40 years ago, American biologist Paul Ehrlich sketched a doomsday scenario for planet Earth in his book The Population Bomb.
Adding more people to the planet would inevitably lead to mass starvation and ecological disaster.
Since the publication of the book, the global population has nearly doubled but most of its gloomy predictions have not come true. However, this has not stopped its author from campaigning against further population growth, this time in Australia.
As he prepared for a series of lectures to the Environment Institute at the University of Adelaide, Ehrlich warned that Australia was full.
As always in Ehrlich's predictions, a bigger population equals disaster. No doubt, he is striking a chord with many Australians who believe that there are enough of them. At least this is what an Australian National University poll suggests...
It is remarkable that people now regularly put "nature" and "the environment" ahead of all other concerns. Historically, this is an oddity because not long ago taming nature and overcoming a hostile environment were humankind's priorities. In this sense, the ANU survey does not reveal an Australian eccentricity but it is very much a sign of our times. The new misanthropists are everywhere.
Across the globe, environmentalists are preaching that nature is always good and humanity always a problem. People are seen as some kind of pollution; a book that imagines "the world without us" has become an international bestseller.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
Simon–Ehrlich wager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
The question is, why does ANYBODY listen to the environmental gloom-and-doomers anymore, after they have been wrong for so long and so often?
Rachel Carson has caused more deaths than You-Know-Who-Is-Der-Faderland. DDT would have saved millions of lives, but no, the birdies were going to die! That was proved wrong, but DDT is still banned.
And now Erlich: we have BILLIONS more people than in his time, and people around the world are better fed than ever. Wherever there is free market capitalism, or something like it. But Obama's science czar wrote a book with Erlich, where they wanted to put sterilants in drinking water. This guy has the President's ear!
And we still listen to the environmentalists?
Their artificial standing in court should be removed. NOW.
Populate and perish? Modelling Australia’s demographic future
http://www.apo.org.au/node/22804
http://www.apo.org.au/research/populate-and-perish-modelling-australias-demographic-future
http://www.cis.org.au/images/stories/policy-monographs/pm-112.pdf
“Population targets are unrealistic. We cannot plan our demographic future... Politicians should stop pretending that they can control what Australia’s future population will look like.”
s/b
Politicians throughout the world should stop pretending that they are in fact trying to control that. :’)
Mugabe’s Zimbabwe is exhibit A for what Ehrlich and his ilk wants.
You mean I can’t invesnt in Soylent Green futures yet ?
Hmm, would an environmentalist afflicted with Guinea worms or river blindness still proclaim that nature is always good?
Maybe we’ll ask the bastard just before we shove him into the live wood chipper.
Figuratively of course.
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