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 ...
Soooo, to save the world for future generations... we must kill off all the 'breeders'.
She's advocating the extermination of all Muslims!
And that's *RACIST*!!!
She’s a co-conspirator with Paul Ehrlich? I was wondering how anyone talking about how we’re all doomed would fail to remember the history of Paul Ehrlich and his predictions, but she’s a government-funded tool looking to fleece taxpayers for her idiotic science.
The AUTHORS of this article: Mary Ellen Harte is coauthor of "Cool the Earth, Save the Economy." Anne Ehrlich is a senior research scientist at Stanford University. John Harte and Paul Ehrlich contributed to this piece. All are biologists involved in the study of climate change and sustainability.
Overpopulation was an early concern and interest. In a 1969 article, [John P.] Holdren and co-author Paul R. Ehrlich argued that, "if the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come." In 1973 [John P.] Holdren encouraged a decline in fertility to well below replacement in the United States, because "210 million now is too many and 280 million in 2040 is likely to be much too many."
In 1977, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and [John P.] Holdren co-authored the textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment; they discussed the possible role of a wide variety of solutions to overpopulation, from voluntary family planning to enforced population controls, including forced sterilization for women after they gave birth to a designated number of children, and recommended "the use of milder methods of influencing family size preferences" such as access to birth control and abortion.
John P. Holdren CURRENTLY: John P. Holdren serves President Barack Obama as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
....and the handicapped, the elderly, the sick...
Of course, they will not be subect to their own doctrines of death. Just as they are with everything else.
Not too many people, but too many parasites...don’t breed em’ if ya can’t feed em’....
Ask them how many states in the USA such a group would cover.
Make sure you videotape their response when you tell them the answer.
In the 70’s, TIME magazine told me that the only way to stop the “EVIL POPULATION BOMB!” was by allowing unrestricted abortions.
What do I have to allow THIS TIME for it to go away?
Death Camps?
Radical Berkeley/Chicago Socialist Dictatorship?
Carousel? (obscure Logan’s Run reference)
But....but, they’re only thinking about us, lest we suffer needlessly at the hands of this present creation.
They mean well.....don’t they?
What’s that saying about good intentions?????
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
“Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them”
And the last:
“I made a speech by that title [A Time for Choosing] in 1964. I said, “We’ve been told increasingly that we must choose between left or right.” But we’re still using those terms — left or right. And I’ll repeat what I said then in ‘64. “There is no left or right. There’s only an up or down”: up to the ultimate in individual freedom, consistent with an orderly society — or down to the totalitarianism of the ant heap. And those today who, however good their intentions, tell us that we should trade freedom for security are on that downward path.”
Ronald Reagan
I like the extension. Yes indeed.
I liked Reagan’s long quip on intentions also.
It’s good. I’ll have to remember that one.
Then why don’t all these morons at the LA Times and others just put their money with their mouths are and shoot themselves in the head?
Until they do they can just STFU!
It’s the same attitude that tells women their goals and dreams are more important than the life of their unexpected unborn child.
I’ve seen women rationalize - well....if they had gone through with the pregnancy, they never would have gotten that degree (really? never?), or never have been able to marry the man they eventually wound up with, and so on...
I’m always left wondering....that child certainly never got to do anything.
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