Richard Grossman: Half a century later population is still the issue

The Durango Herald ^ | Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020

[nickcarraway]

Kind of a fact free article. I guess they haven't heard how fast populations are aging, and fertility is below is dropping everywhere in the world, and is below replacement rate almost everywhere.

[Secret Agent Man]

well they get to pick either side and make it the new crises du jour...

[Uncle Miltie]

This article is impossible because they promised we’d all be dead by now.

[Uncle Miltie]

[Uncle Miltie]

Pubished in 1968, fully 52 years ago.

[Uncle Miltie]

While you were reading those words four people died, usually by socialist murder.

[House Atreides]

The fertility rate, total (births per woman) in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2018 was 4.7. African population continues to explode.

[Regulator]

Oh No! Another ‘60s retread doc living in the mountains of Southern Colorado who hasn’t heard that Ehrlich was nuts!

Unlike the rest of the world.

Guess Grossman is getting concerned about all the tourists coming to Durango and Pagosa now, can’t figure out where they’re all coming from since he’s been isolated there for the last half century reading his old Whole Earth Catalog back issues.

[DeFault User]

As I recall, earlier studies maintained that we would have exhausted the world’s food and fuel supply by now. Therefore, we are all dead.

So it doesn’t really matter anymore.

[a fool in paradise]

Margaret Sanger was ANTI-Choice. After WWII she insisted to the West, NO MORE BABIES for a period of 10 years and didn’t care if any women WANTED to become mothers or not and didn’t care if they would be unable to bear children after her band was lifted.

“No More Babies!” - Expert Calls For Ban on Childbirth (1947)
British Pathe Newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChCjgYGTL4Y

[Regulator]

African population increase is never to be criticized.

The Overpopulationist is only concerned with Too Many Evil Whiteys.

All others are sacred.

[a fool in paradise]

Don’t worry, Papa Doc Bill Gates says that if we get vaccinated, we can help reduce the world’s population by 15%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkcZTh9peI4

[libertylover]

“Either we reduce the world’s population voluntarily or Nature will do this for us, but brutally.” – Maurice Strong

I guess this Maurice Strong fellow didn't get the memo about global warming, i.e., that man is more powerful than Nature.

[Persevero]

It’s just misanthropy. Swaddled in a scientific cloak.

[dsc]

They show a bomb with a burning fuse, and the caption is “The population bomb keeps ticking.”

Morons.

[Flick Lives]

WW3 will take care of the “problem “.

[noiseman]

Try driving from Denver to Reno, as just one of many examples, and then tell us how overpopulated the world is. Someone published a calculation a few years ago in which they determined that every person on Earth could fit inside the state of Texas, with a reasonable amount of space per person (don’t recall that figure at the moment). Of course, the intent wasn’t to claim that they could live practically like that (except for democrats, who apparently can’t get enough of being packed together like sardines), but simply to point out how little relative space the entirety of humanity occupies.

The problem isn’t population, it’s how much of that population lives a primitive lifestyle. Western civilization, with constant technological advances in food production, energy production, sanitation, transportation, etc. enables us to support far more people efficiently on less land than do the primitive cultures of most of the rest of the world. For example, liberals’ vaunted “organic farming” (just a trendy name for primitive farming) takes huge amounts of land to produce the same crop yields that modern farming techniques can produce on a much smaller field.

The solution to growing population is to produce MORE energy, to use advanced food production techniques, including planting drought and disease-resistant hybrid crops, and to modernize primitive cultures.

[SamuraiScot]

“Many regard overpopulation as the supreme dilemma of our age ...”

You first, buck-o!

[Widget Jr]

I thought there was some exponential or logarithmic function which explained that population growth eventually tapers off to a equilibrium. Also, since the post WW-II era, food production has largely risen to match population.

[HKMk23]

COVID is close to being vanquished!
The vaccine is getting out there!

QUICK!

Somebody gin up a crisis so we can keep the public fearful and controlled!