I'm so conservative, I make Jesse Helms look like a commie, but the destruction of the Amazon jungle is very troubling.
We need to hurry up and find a way to start colonizing other planets outside the known solar system, because the human population has reached critical mass here on earth.
Not only is human population out of control, but even the rapid advance of technology has not kept pace with what is necessary for humans to sustain themselves.
We ina' heapa' trouble, boy !
The Amazon needs to be protected but I think we need to be reasonable. We really fool ourselves into believing the most silly things about the world; the number one misconception being that the world the way it is, is the way was and the way it should always and forever be. People have been worried about overpopulation for so long and I wish I could be worried but I'm not. It is like worrying about whether it will rain too much. If it does it floods, if a population expands beyond its means people die.
Humanity responds with more innovation and so far the innovation has outpaced the doomsayers and it is abundantly clear from history that had humanity heeded the doomsayers, the dire prophecies would’ve likely have come true because the innovation, the eyes on the horizon, would’ve been sacrificed to the hording of scraps and perpetual poverty of communism. Just as you can not avoid a ditch by focusing solely on it one can not avoid disaster by dwelling on it.
Conservative or not we will not conserve the rain forest by telling poor indians they are better off without houses and running water.
Perpetual Dismay
We need not hope for the end of the world
And nor can we know the day
But to so fixate ourselves on doom
Can only lead our hearts to one place-
The empty comfort of perpetual dismay.
Echos of a liberal trying to justify abortion, homosexuality, pedophilia, etc etc etc etc etc etc
Where did you get this tripe? The entire population of the earth can be fit into the usable land space of Texas with 1,123 sq feet per man woman and child. The rest of the earth would be empty.
Complete hogwash. You make Cindy Sheehan look well informed.
See: http://www.ncforestry.org/docs/Latest%20News/articles/shaky_science_behind_saving_rain.htm
"The scientific evidence paints a much brighter picture of deforestation in the Amazon. Looking at the NASA Landsat satellite images of the deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest, about 12.5 percent has been cleared. Of the 12.5 percent, one half to one third of that is fallow, or in the process of regeneration, meaning that at any given moment up to 94 percent of the Amazon is left to nature. Even the Environmental Defense Fund and Sting’s Rainforest Foundation concede, among the fine print, that the forest is nearly 90 percent intact."
Fear not! God is not mocked!! Famine, wars, pestilence and disease are simple tools used to limit unsustainable population growth. Who is scaring you out of your mind like that? You need new and more rational sources of information before you become suicidal!!!
You've been snookered by too much liberal hogwash on TV and in newspapers then. There is no world population problem. Only those who live in big cities would think that. Large cities and some countries in the world have localized population issues, yes. But those are mostly economic and policy problems, when you really look into it. Drive across Texas or Wyoming -- where I live -- some time. There's lots of empty space on this planet!
The entire population of the world would fit comfortably in the state of Texas, in single-family houses.
Second, the total amount of forest land in the world is higher now than it was 100 years ago. The whole "save the Amazon" thing is much ado about nothing.
I say, torch the entire Amazon jungle to the ground. I am tired of it being used an excuse by enviro-lunatics to make our (U.S. citizens) lifes harder to live through enviromental regulations.