> The entire world population could fit into NYC and each person would still have more room than the average NYer. You can calculate it yourself if you like.
LOL You ever been to the Big Apple?
> And we're not low on resources.
So you enjoy paying $2.49 a gallon?
> The worry about running out of resources started prior to the agricultural revolution, and propagandists still like to use it as an excuse today.
Propagandists for whom and excuses for what?
> In all honesty, the best way to reduce to world's population is to educate women. Education leads to lower birth rates.
Birth control and family planning lower birth rates. Shhh don't tell anyone on Free Republic.
I'm from NY, love, but what does that have to do with the discussion?
So you enjoy paying $2.49 a gallon?
Do you honestly think petroleum is the only solution? There are numerous sources out there, and America is finally grasping that. Self-sufficiency is always the best solution, IMHO.
Propagandists for whom and excuses for what?
Since I was talking about the myth of overpopulation, naturally I was referring to advocates of population reduction and their continuous rhetoric about running out of resources.
Birth control and family planning lower birth rates. Shhh don't tell anyone on Free Republic.
So you’d rather simply hand out birth control and tear out fetuses of ignorant women than attempt to educate them first? Personally I can’t imagine birth control working that well unless women are educated. If they don’t have much of a future, then shooting out babies is one of the few contributions they feel they can make.
Silly argument. We're paying much less for gasoline now as a percentage of income than we were in 1955. And the more the price of petroleum goes up, the more attractive alternatives become. North America has hundreds of years of tar sands and oil shale, and 500 years of coal, just waiting to be exploited.