Posted on 07/21/2011 12:12:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Our unsustainable population levels are depleting resources and denying a decent future to our descendants. We must stop the denial.
A 2009 NPR story on U.S. pregnancies reported that half — yes, half — of all U.S. pregnancies are unintended. That's a lot of unintended consumers adding to our future climate change.
And that's what the right calls the "liberal" side of the mass media. The politically conservative U.S. mass media cover unsustainable population levels even less.
That pretty much reflects the appalling state of U.S. public education today on population. The U.S. approach to population issues across all levels of government, in terms of such things as education, attacks on family planning and tax deductions for children, is an exercise in thoughtlessness. The ramifications, however, are far more insidious and brutal. Women are culturally conditioned daily to welcome the idea of having children — plural, not one or none. How to support those children economically is not discussed. The latest available statistics from the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan tell the story: 1 in 5 American children lived in poverty in 2008; 1 in 3 if they were black or Latino.
Access to contraceptives and reproductive freedom are rights, not luxuries, that ultimately benefit all of humanity. Vote for leaders who vigorously promote those humane solutions. And demand that media start educating the public every day on the role played by the unsustainable human numbers behind environmental degradation and human calamities — and start covering the solutions. The public needs a constant message: "It's time to stop growing and become sustainable."
We can do many things to solve environmental, economic and social problems, but each is a lost cause if we cannot bring our populations down to sustainable levels.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Hmmm, I was trying to figure out a good movie to see, I know now what it will be, 2012, full of catastrophe!
"And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil." (John 3:19)
"Because what is known of God is manifest among them, for God has manifested it to them, --for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, --so as to render them inexcusable. Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened: professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles." (Romans 1:19-23)
Does anyone have a Master list of all of these "rights"?
They sure seem to be expanding daily.
With central air, running water, electricity, big screen TVs, vehicles, and cell phones, we have the most obese poor on the planet.
Yes, America, there are a few real dirt-floor poor people out there, but most of them don't count because they are not from the 'right' ethnic background.
Now for questions.
How many of the Latino 'poor' are here illegally?
How many of the black 'poor' have grown up in two-parent homes? Have graduated High School? (I'm not smug about that, either, because 'white' kids are getting to be in the same bind. Give it a generation.)
Why do we subsidize a lifestyle for those who are unwilling to provide such for themselves, as if doing so would provide any incentive for them to do something for themselves to imporve their situation?
How many of the officially 'poor' are making money off the books which would actually place them in an income bracket above 'poor'?
There is plenty to go around, plenty of wealth to be generated, if people will do that--and if government will get out of the way.
It's a very small step from vigorously promoting those solutions, to mandating those solutions when you yield moral authority to the state, which is what socialism does. Since the media has already taken on the role of the propaganda arm for the state, we already have one foot in the door. All that's needed now is a suitable legislative framework that can morally proscribe such solutions legally, and we have that in the health care bill. We are truly in dangerous times, and we've seen similar thinking like this before in history and it didn't turn out well. Although I'm sure some of them do, I often wonder just how many of these idiots actually understand what they're advocating....
Well then who will work for all those wonderful Government programs
Does that mean the Social Security checks wont go out?
Bump #45
Bingo!
Same old Malthusian shit.
It's akin to saying,"gravity is the world's biggest problem."
All are biologists supported by taxpayer largesse.
Most of the world would be much better off with fewer Leftwingtards around. They are so tiresome.
Liberals should immediately go and commit suicide doing them and us a big favor. It also will reduce global pollution.
I think she meant to say there are too many liberal socialist bastards.
P.J. did a great job of destroying this argument but I can't help but think of that great bit by Sam Kinison:
I’m like anyone else on this planet — I’m very moved by world hunger. I see the same commercials, with those little kids, starving, and very depressed. I watch those kids and I go, ‘F–k, I know the FILM crew could give this kid a sandwich!’ There’s a director five feet away going, ‘DON’T FEED HIM YET! GET THAT SANDWICH OUTTA HERE! IT DOESN’T WORK UNLESS HE LOOKS HUNGRY!!!’ But I’m not trying to make fun of world hunger. Matter of fact, I think I have the answer. You want to stop world hunger? Stop sending these people food. Don’t send these people another bite, folks. You want to send them something, you want to help? Send them U-Hauls. Send them U-Hauls, some luggage, send them a guy out there who says, ‘Hey, we been driving out here every day with your food, for, like, the last thirty or forty years, and we were driving out here today across the desert, and it occurred to us that there wouldn’t BE world hunger, if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT! YOU LIVE IN A F–KING DESERT! NOTHING GROWS OUT HERE! NOTHING’S GONNA GROW OUT HERE! YOU SEE THIS? HUH? THIS IS SAND. KNOW WHAT IT’S GONNA BE A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW? IT’S GONNA BE SAND! YOU LIVE IN A F–KING DESERT! GET YOUR STUFF, GET YOUR SHIT, WE’LL MAKE ONE TRIP, WE’LL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE FOOD IS! WE HAVE DESERTS IN AMERICA — WE JUST DON’T LIVE IN THEM, A–HOLES!”
People (people in a free society, anyway) are net creators of wealth.
This dimwit believes that economy is a zero-sum game. It isn’t.
There’s nothing that can fix the overpopulation problem better than a good ol’ war.
Here’s an idea. Let’s nuke Los Angeles. Put the warhead right on the LA Times building. That will remove a few grubby human parasites.
You forgot to add:
It's for the children of our world. Think of the children.
“Too many people.” ?
No so. That’s the old, old Malthusian panic, a forerunner of Y2K and Global Warming. This one is a direct slap at God, who said to go forth and multiply.
If you housed people as they are housed in New York City, all the people in the world would fit in Texas.
There is more than enough food, but when you try to get it to hungry people, politicians sell it and put the money in their Swiss bank accounts.
Finally, The Los Angeles Times is an official organ of the New World Order, a mouthpiece for those who are taking over the world and its governance, wealth and power.
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