[HungarianGypsy]

It's a good thing I'm not in his class. Just because I have five children, I am NOT going to feel guilty about it. I'd likely find myself getting into an argument and getting kicked out of that class as soon as he started this garbage.

[Sooner1938]

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.

[Brian Mosely]

SO! Such a man dares to take the name of... DOOM!!!

[Brilliant]

The solution is to send about 13 million of us back to Mexico.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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.

[taxesareforever]

I guess the University thought that it would look good if they employed a mental case professor. Doesn't matter what his credentials are a high school dropout could teach the same stuff he does.

[sauropod]

review

[umgud]

I agree with him and wish we could get rid of about 1.2 billion people (muslims).

[Rawlings]

We've got a guy like that at the University of Colorado, too. What an idiot. When he gave a lecture I was tempted to inform him that I intend on having six kids. Since he was an old guy I didn't want to give him a heart attack by telling him this. These nutters are looking at 1970s stats and projections. The truth is that the UN Population Council has dramatically downsized projections. In fact, the big demography story is that the 3rd world is having far fewer kids (Mexico's fertility rate is nearly below replacement level). Overall, the global fertility rate is only about 2.5 per woman.

Frankly, I think this country is overpopulated with dummies like this professor. We need more good conservatives and less hippy dippy professors. So we'll keep popping 'em out and the lefties will have their "one designer baby at age 38" (Mark Steyn)...and conservatives will soon rule the roost.

[BlessedBeGod]

In his most cynical moment while interviewed, he described people as "wicked..."

That tells you exactly where he's coming from: all people are bad, all nature is good.

[operation clinton cleanup]

One thing about Pianka: He's no purist. He makes $110,000 a year in his tenured position but donates little or none of it to environmental causes, saying the money would probably be misused.

He may be controversial, but he is not stupid.

[mc6809e]

If population grows, then either productivity must increase or what we have now gets divided up into smaller pieces.

If your child makes a contribution to production in the future, then great -- there's is no problem. But if your child grows up simply consuming what the rest of us produce, then that is a problem because there is less per person than before.

[MondoQueen]

Notice he said "I actually think the world will be much better off when only 10 percent or 20 percent of us are left".
What! "When 20 percent of US are left"?

"US"

I rest my case!

[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

[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.

[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?????????

[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%.

[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.

[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.