Even the Wall Street Journal buys into this human-caused global warming BS! What’s the world coming to!?!?!?
"..Limits to Growth attracted controversy as soon as it was published. Yale economist Henry C. Wallich labeled the book "a piece of irresponsible nonsense".."
The crew that wrote this crap have built their careers on this speculation. This is like global warming, but with even less data or rigor.
We can’t control the birth-rate in China, so we should immediately impose a command economy in the United States.
Similarly, we can’t control the emission of greenhouse gases in China, so we should transfer our heavy industry to China and impose a command economy in the United States.
Actually, its Sunday, and tomorrow’s Monday, so we should impose a command economy in the United States. When you’re a socialist, any reason is a good reason to impose a command economy in the United States.
Malthus has been proven to be full of cr@p. Population growth is absolutely necessary for there to be progress. Population allows for a greater division of labor, opens up new markets, and provides the needed labor to exploit new territories and opportunities.
“There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence”
—Ronald Reagan
The world population is set to stabilize relatively soon, and then begin DECREASING. Malthus turned on his head..
The US government doesn’t even know how many persons are living within this country.
Nonsense.
Think: desalination and aquaculture (fish farms, aquatic plant farming, etc.).
Poof. Problem solved. Just use non-greenhouse-gas emitting nuclear energy for desalination and you're home free.
Oh, please! You don’t have real shortages when have proven reserves you refuse to tap unless you’re talking about a shortage of common sense.
For those of you who find such hard to believe the total land area of Rhode Island is 1045 Square Miles (1,545 square miles including Water)
1045 Square miles converted to Square Feet is 29,132,928,000 Square Feet Divided by 10 Billion gives you 2.91 Square feet per person to stand on.
We are not anyway near close to Overpopulation.
What a load. Can’t believe the WSJ published this trash.
Desalination, fertilizer, genetically modified crop strains.
Looks like people are all over the world eating and living better. Always a problem for lefties.
... and if Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ is a failed premise, what then?
THE problem is unlimited growth of populations in violent, savage and uncivilized areas. Those people breed like bacteria and invade civilized countries.
Europe and the USA are not reproducing fast enough to replace the population. This provides an opportunity for the invaders to come in and take over.
"New technology could help ease the resource crunch. Advances in agriculture, desalination and the clean production of electricity, among other things, would help.
Master of the obvious?
Geesh, we have technologies today that can literally take crop growth indoors and take away much of the enviroment's damage on food production (Heavy rains, wind, hail, freezing, etc.)
Not to mention advances in fertilzation and preservation. Yet these people act like there maybe no "New Tech" on the way that will up the result of food production.
We have not even scrathed the surface of genetic manipulation yet.
But hey, "doom and gloom" sells news media, the problem is most people fall for the hype.
A number I periodically recalculate:
Dividing the land area of the planet by current population, we get a fair share of 5.6 acres per person ... 2.6 acres if considering that half the land is rank wilderness (effectively inhospitable). For contrast, consider that Monaco has 95 people per acre.
Between efficient housing and efficient farming, we’ve got a long way to go. Population dynamics tend to be self-correcting in the face of resource limitation and other issues; consider that Europe is currently facing a population _implosion_.
The Club of Rome is a front for the eugenicists.