Posted on 12/19/2007 10:43:56 AM PST by goldstategop
Interesting. Will they try to also force Muslim families into this model, or will they be exempted for multicultural reasons? After all, it is the Muslims who are driving this increase in births in Britain; it certainly isn't the native Brits.
Have you read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six"? It's all about the 'Druids', as one of the protagonists calls them.
I stopped reading Clancy after they started making movies of his books...
“I’ve (stupidly) tried reasoning with some people who seriously advocate reducing the population by 90%...”
One of the many things that the liberals and their fellow travelers, the environmentalists, don’t realize is that if we want all of the comforts and accommodations of modern life, including all of the high-tech things like computers, the Internet, communications satellites and GPS’s (to name but a small handful), then we need literally needs billions of human beings. Think of the millions of man years required to just advance computer technology to its current state.
This cannot be done with even a billion people. Too much specialization is required in too many areas by people who’s lives are dedicated to nothing but these very narrow areas of specialization. There also has be a very large low-tech sector to support these people. So, that’s the trade off; 6 billion human beings and the Internet and modern medical science or a former pastoral life that was truly “solitary, nasty, brutish and short.”
The global warming nuts can reduce the population today, and be thanked for it by the rest of us. Oops, I forgot. Their rules do not apply to them. Just to the rest of us.
Actually it is a Partial Human Extinction Movement. There must be 50 million or so humans left alive as stewards of the planet- to be made up of themselves, of course. Having no understanding of how wealth is created and maintained they believe that they will be able to off almost all of the human race and be able to live on their plush estates with their bicycles and high tech homes scattered about the planet leaving no “footprint.” Many of these people believe they can simply decree pollutionless technology for themselves by passing a law or by government fiat. They wish to live in the techno equivalent of the medieval world, as lords and ladies in their castles but without the peasantry and the tradesmen. It is all consistent for people that believe reality to be a mental construct.
No guns. Too many will see that can do more good by shooting someone else and eliminating others who do not think right instead of themselves who do think right.The booths should just have a needle hookup or plastic bags for those who want to go to the comet.
Ever see the movie "Twelve Monkeys?" That's exactly what happens.
Nationalizing healthcare will certainly begin the reduction in life expectancy for Americans.
I am surprised the US global warming types have not seized on immigration, legal and illegal. With 1.2 million legal immigrants entering annually and another 500,000 to 1 million legals per year, the US population is soaring faster than any developed nation on the planet with an annual population growth of .89%. We have added 100 million since 1970 and will add another 167 million by 2060. In fact, in just 23 years, we will add another 62 million [roughly the size of the UK], by 2030. And just imagine the carbon foot print an America of half a billion people will present.
We won’t have to worry about population decreases anytime soon. The world will be adding 57 million people [the size of Italy] a year thru 2050.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940211/posts
Dishonest Political Tampering with the Science on Global Warming
“...My fellow-participants, there is no climate crisis. The correct policy response to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing. Take courage! Do nothing, and save the world’s poor from yet another careless, UN-driven slaughter.
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Well. The real issue with the Left, at all times, is the magnification of government control and the dissolution of individual liberty. The ideal of the Left is not so much a people-free planet as it is a planetary ant-hill. With themselves as the queens of course.
One serious obstacle to this goal is the family, a counter-center of allegiance and therefore arena of individual power. Marx and the Communists sought avidly to dissolve the family once and for all, failing of course, because human nature doesn't change with the political winds. The Left doesn't change its spots however, no matter what history says, so they persist, this time seeking to wrest control over the family and neutralize it by subjecting it to government control. If you want to see the future of the human family under the Leftist dream, look at the fate of parallel traditionally based institutions: public education today; the mainline protestant churches.
Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
Oh, you’ll probably enjoy “Rainbow Six”. VEY satisfying ending. ;o) Kinda like Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear”.
*start reciting
[... if some whackjob went around saying that murder was “wrong,” why we’d
all be forced to read the Westminster confession tomorrow at gunpoint...]
LOL!!!
Actually I was referring to the 72 virgins
promised to muslim martyrs. If there was a
ranking for human eco-kills, you could incent
the murdeing slimes by adding a few camels
and sheep to that heavenly herd of rewards.
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