Dr. Doom speaks his mind AN OVERPOPULATED EARTH?

Houston Chronicle ^ | 8-27-06 | LISA SANDBERG

[NewJerseyJoe]

> "Now we're going to have to go into a collapse. It's going to be very painful. The death rate is going to have to exceed the birth rate, we're going to have famines, civilizations are going to fall apart."

Sounds like Kodos the Executioner from Star Trek.

"The revolution is successful. But survival depends on drastic measures. Your continued existence represents a threat to the well-being of society. Your lives mean slow death to the more valued members of the colony. Therefore I have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered, signed Kodos, Governor of Tarsus IV."
-excerpt from Kodos' speech to the 4,000 people he murdered

[Rawlings]

Of course he's an idiot! This is like "greeting from the fever swamp" type of stuff. This whacko enviro-lefty business is ridiculous and no pro-family conservative can even entertain such junk.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

This is the sort of twisted philosophy that could only develop in overcrowded large cities. I lived in Canada's far north for a long time -- there's more than ten square miles per person in the northern territories. Overpopulation isn't at the top of anyone's list of problems.

The population is too large to be sustained by hunting and gathering -- but, we have developed better technologies to feed ourselves. All these neo-Malthusian doom-sayers have failed to consider technology change; or to begin to imagine how adaptable humans can be.

[operation clinton cleanup]

I was referring to him not giving money to enviro whackjob groups.

[nomorelurker]

Bump to you Message

[rock58seg]

Do the Liberals first, then we won't have to listen to so much complaing and whining.

[hardworking]

O-O-O-O Kay..... I am an employer. Just what do you expect me to do with an 'Ecology, Environment and Society' trained person?????????

[NewRomeTacitus]

Nailed it.

[hardworking]

OK, listen up all Comrade Democrats. DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT have children. ABORT, ABORT, ABORT. (sarc.)

[KoRn]

Just off the top of my head I'd say 25% of the earth's population should be dead immediately due to them being bad people. Give or take 5%.

[goldfinch]

I am not that much younger than Dr. Doom and I have been hearing this same stuff my whole adult life. In the meantime, the part of the U.S. I grew up in is now classified as 'frontier' because it has fewer than 2 people per square mile.

There are only a few parts of the world where population growth is still out of control. Africa, for one. Most Muslim countries as well. The rate of population growth is way down in most of South America and even in Mexico. I would not be surprised if Mexico's birthrate declines to a point that they start encouraging people to come back in a decade or two.

[hinckley buzzard]

Pianka, a 67-year-old lizard expert

Why not? Paul Ehrlich, the last generation's Dr Doom, was a butterfly man. (He said all the same things about the "population bomb" apocalypse forty years ago). Amazing how one's expertise proliferates to the far horizons as soon as he gets tenure at some sucker academic outfit.

[hinckley buzzard]

For a guy with gloomy views, Pianka is quite pleasant to be around.

Why is that surprising? Reporters as a group hate the human race and so throw themselves lovingly at the feet of anyone who wants us all to die.

If I were being paid a lifetime sinecure of $110,000 per year for doing nothing, I would be a lot more pleasant to be around.

[KingofQue]

Why don't we start with the liberals?

[Heman11]

We could take the whole population of the earth today and everyone could have their own square foot in........Alaska?....no..in Montana?.......no....the answer is Rhode Island.

[DustyMoment]

"We should have done something about our population 25 or 30 years ago," the Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology said during a recent interview at his university office.

Still waiting for him to lead by example. That's the problem with jihadists and leftists - they want everyone else to kill themselves, but they sure as heck won't.

[DustyMoment]

I happen to agree with Dr. Doom. We DO have way too many people on this earth. Years ago, I wrote a college term paper in which I said that I would like to have seen the earth before man appeared. Surely, it would have been a more beautiful place.

Buh-bye!!!

[okie01]

Years ago, I wrote a college term paper in which I said that I would like to have seen the earth before man appeared. Surely, it would have been a more beautiful place.

Whoa there! Nature doesn't have a monopoly on beauty.

What would the Earth look like without soaring bridges like the Golden Gate, dazzling skylines like new York's, stunning monuments like the Pyramids, the bright green cornfields of the Midwest and assorted engineering marvels everywhere?

Man has produced a major share of Earth's beauty.

And, given our heritage, I ask you how is a field of golden wheat somehow inferior to a field of prairie grass?

[Sooner1938]

Have any of you naysayers considered the possibility that he may be right?

The biggest problem with the earth's population is that those who can least afford kids are having the most. And all those Third Worlders are invading the developed world.

Locate a copy of the book "Camp of the Saints". It'll scare the hell out of you.

[sharkhawk]

Paul Ehrlich, professor of population studies at Stanford University who in 1968 wrote The Population Bomb, a best-seller that warned of — some say exaggerated — the threats posed by the growth of human numbers, urged Pianka to hang in there.
Ehrlich, too, received his share of nasty letters, harassing phone calls and protests when his book was published. But that year the human population stood at 3.5 billion. With nearly 6.5 billion people now on the planet, the problem is infinitely more relevant, he said.

They are using Paul Erlhich as a source. The same Paul Ehrlich who predicted massive famine in Western Europe by the 1980's? The same guy who predicted food riots in the US? There's a source for you.