[flyingtabby]

I love these so-called "studies" that are done, and trotted out to the masses as serious stuff. Note they never tell how the "studies" were done, nor do they include the data sets, the controls, the variables, you name it. They think by merely saying "studies were done" it somehow bears weight and import. BLEAH!

[lastchance]

Malthus was wrong and he is still wrong.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Pure FUD.

One of the best debunkers of this crap was economist Julian Simon. You can read his book online for free The Ultimate Resource II:People, Materials, and Environment

"Simon gives extensive evidence that, contrary to environmentalist predictions, "length of life and health are increasing, supplies of food and other natural resources are becoming ever more abundant, and pollutants in our environment are lessening." He shows that "the world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom."

[John Will]

How much for a match between the WWF leader and the big show?

[giznort]

First of all, Flyingtabby, I'm disappointed that you don't have a home page to fit your sceen name. Dang! As for this article, it is the typical claptrap from the Al Gore type idiots who think that what we do in the course of normal human events ruins the planet. Did God not say "be fruitful and multiply"? Surely He who created the earth and all that is in it can give and take things away from us. At His will. Of course, we are to be responsible stewarts of that entrusted to us. All in all, this is another chicken little article by some hemp-wearing toe-jam sandle freak thinking that we ought to limit our population ala the Chinese method and save the world. I just don't buy it. It's a shame because Yahoo is eating this up big time.

[Centurion2000]

Meanwhile Kim Jong Il has released "studies" that show he was the inventor of the automobile, the airplane and the nuclear weapon. Other "studies" from Norkland revealed that NK standards of living are far above the rest of the planet.

These are actually BELIEVED in Norkland.

[Left2Right]

WWF = Malthus XCXVII

[Waco]

No solutions permited!

[BlazingArizona]

If this is true, then why does the US have more of its acreage in preserves and parks than any other country? As we demand more resources to feed our lifestyle, our technology improves to plug the gap. Now that China is industrializing, it's becoming the "super-America" of resource utilization, causing this human process of pushing technology even faster.

[John Lenin]

Wrong Again

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. -- Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)

The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer -- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 -- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion -- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)

This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century -- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it. -- Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

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[Old Professer]

Calling the earth a planet is a clever use of words, it somehow makes the world as we know it a much smaller and malleable place.

Makes you want to cuddle it and soothe its sores.

[TChris]

support a consumptive lifestyle

OK, time out!

Someone in the WWF please define this-obviously highly charged--term "consumptive lifestyle".

Please show me a life form that does not consume?

[bandleader]

The "basis"of all these"studies"is the same thing!And that is that human beings are the greatest threat to the survival of mother earth!!Everything was hunkey dorey before we got here!!!It's the same old SH*T!!!!!!!!!

[Stultis]

The radical left tries to foist this same lie on every generation. Namely: We're all DOOMED, unless we accept socialism.

Yet on average the world is a little more free, capitalist and prosperous each generation. (Excepting of course the years of the Carter administration.)

This is what really bothers the left. More and more societies on the globe are developing a level of prosperity that allows individuals to make effective choices about how to order their own lives, and provides them the resources and motivation to defend that freedom. So the doomsday lie becomes more desperate and fanatically inflated with each iteration.