Perfect explanation.
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John Lennon also asked us to imagine NO HEAVEN, NO COUNRTIES, NO POSSESSIONS, NO RELIGION too.
And he hopes someday we’ll join him so that the world will live as one...
I liked John Lennon, loved him actually.
Erlich on the other hand I can’t stand. He’s a fraud and a dangerous lunatic.
There is no over-population.
Ehrlich is a complete fool.
Every prediction that he’s had is wrong.
His miserable “machine gun” quote is disgusting.
He hates humanity with a burning passion.
I doubt that he could predict whether or not he’d be able to make it to his own dentist appointment...
Ehrlich apparently never took the interstate through Illinois, Iowa or Kansas.
Some years ago, PJ O’Rourke observed that liberals will stand around a crowded room with their fellow kind drink in hand, discussing their recent trip to India or Bangladesh, and wax eloquent about the horrors of over population, yet they seem to be fine with crowds of like-minded liberals shopping at whole foods or at a gay parade. Deconstruction reveals that they just don’t like people unlike themselves. Period.
Remember when we all died about 10 years ago like Ehrlich predicted?
...neither does anyone else!
America is overcrowded and was destroyed by this last 100 million people, and liberals, and Catholics want to import 100s of millions more.
There is more to having a wonderful, clean, nation than whether science and high rise building can keep up with the food and shelter needs of a population.
America was wonderful in 1970, today it is all starting to look like a crowded city, and we are starting to seem more and more like productive factory farm animals that work and live, and spend our off time, all on concrete and indoors.
There is no good in America having a population of a 1000 million people.
You can easily fit the entire world’s population standing up in our Grand Canyon.
If you want the entire world’s population to have 4 or 5 to a home, driveway, and streets, you only need Texas to hold the entire world’s population.
World overpopulation is a joke.
Freedom and capitalism, not socialism of libtardism, enabled advanced countries to escape the Malthusian trap.
Just the other night I was flipping through channels and saw that an old "Man from UNCLE" was on and decided to see what it was all about, not having ever watched one. The premise was that a scientist for the bad guys was on a train carrying a vial of some virus that made people infertile. The hero, Napoleon Solo, asked his chief "so you want me to obtain it and bring it in?" and the chief was vehement. "No, you must destroy it immediately!"
I thought "wow, that will upset the leftists who created it to wipe out humanity so the earth could live free"
.... Along with Ehrlich, [Stewart Brand, a former disciple of Ehrlich's who’s now a critic] led a movement of Americans who took to heart his call for “a system of incentives and penalties,” to reduce childbearing, even “by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.” Ehrlich and his followers proposed “responsibility prizes” for childless marriages, a steep tax on families with more than three children, even a “blacklist of people, companies, and organizations impeding population control.”
But it was in other parts of the world where the idea behind Ehrlich's book really took root. Throughout the 70s, the Indian government undertook a program of population control that saw more than eight million women surgically sterilized. Untold numbers of these procedures were forced, and many resulted in death. The patients, in the words of one Indian family-planning official, “were treated like cattle.” And China, with its infamous One Child Policy, took even more drastic measures.
None of this defused the population bomb, though. What did, argues Brand, were advances in agriculture and economics in developing nations—advances Ehrlich could have never foreseen, and which his worldview precluded. And so today, despite an increase of four billion people, fewer people today suffer from extreme poverty or hunger than when Ehrlich wrote the book. Explaining Ehrlich's failed prediction, Indian Economist Gita Sen told The Times, “There's a tendency to apply to human beings the same sort of models that may apply for the insect world.” The difference? We’re not insects. “[H]uman beings are conscious beings, and we do all kinds of things to change our destiny.”
Thanks for posting this, wagglebee!
Bingo. So while Ehrlich was spewing his hatred of humanity, capitalism and people like Norman Borlaug were busy proving Ehrlich to be the moron he is. All these years later, society - thanks to our failed system of public education - is familiar with the likes of Paul Ehrlich and Rachel Carson, but knows little about capitalism, and nothing about men like Norman Borlaug.
A sad commentary indeed.
[[John Lennon was right about overpopulation]]
BS- you can fit the world’s population in Texas and STILL have room to spare- These ‘the world is overpopulated’ idiots are LIARS! Not even 1/10’th of HABITABLE land is taken up by people The world has roughly what? 9 billion? So that means we can fit almost 90 billion more on earth and STILL have enough room for crops, businesses etc
The ‘the world is overpopulated morons will likely come back with soemthign like “Well ok, but my goodness but the CO2 will skyrocket” Yeah- it might get all the way up to .01% (Man’s contribution to total atmospheric CO2 stands at just 0.00137% now (atmosphere has 0.04% CO2- man is responsible for just 3.4% of that piddly amount, meaning man is only responsible at present for 0.00137% total atmospheric CO2- Explain to us please how just 0.00137% can cause ANY change at all lefties!