[Oldeconomybuyer]

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.

[nickcarraway]

She sounds like a racist misanthrope.

[driftdiver]

“Our unsustainable population levels are depleting resources and denying a decent future to our descendants.”

Ahh the irony

[LukeL]

Almost all children are unplanned, the only difference is 50 years ago people would get married then have their little accident (knowing they wanted a family, just weren’t exactly planning for it or thouht they were done having children) Today people hook up, get knocked up and live off the dole.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Our unsustainable population levels are depleting resources and denying a decent future to our descendants.

So kill yourself. Talk as many of your friends into it as well.

[Ronin]

Gosh darn it! She’s right!

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.

[esoxmagnum]

But I thought the US had a shortage of people? Isn’t that the argument I hear about immigration? We need more people?

Plus more people = more folks to tax!

I love it when liberal worlds collide.

[Norm Lenhart]

Strange how all these ‘overpopulationists’ have no desire to reduce their own personal impact on the planet. I’m sure that they have the cash for a Dignatis ‘clinic’. Why don’t they walk the walk? Gee...I wonder.

Imagine all the trees and power that could be saved with less of them in the world.

[cranked]

Leave it to those damn academic elitists....from the left.

Give it a week or two and she will be advocating that the US should be giving all women free birth control pills.....like they are advocating here in the US. =.=

[Winstons Julia]

The only solutions were put forth by Obama’s science advisor John Holdren when he was at Berkeley.

We need birth control in the water supply.

[antceecee]

The author should follow her mantra and kill herself already.

[freedumb2003]

>>that half — yes, half — of all U.S. pregnancies are unintended. <<

They should probably tell people what causes pregnancy.

I suggest the Quarter Solution. Women should put a quarter between their knees when they are feeling aflushed. It is a 100% prophylactic against unintended pregnancy.

[ExGeeEye]

Any time you hear someone say that "there are too many people", you may be sure that they mean "there are too many other people".

[Olog-hai]

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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.

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Missing barf alert.

[goat granny]

If all the leftist and liberals just died to save the earth, we would have a lot less people and problems..After all, its for the children.

[Gondring]

Does nobody recognize the name Paul Ehrlich?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Too many of the wrong people. LOL!

(sometimes i kill myself)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Civic and living standards make more difference in quality of life than sheer population.

[SpaceBar]

P.J. O’Rourke deconstructed the liberal “over population” line years ago. They use Calcutta India, or Dacca Bangladesh as examples of too many people, but seem perfectly happy at crowded cocktail parties with other likeminded liberals, ergo they only want to limit the earth of people unlike themselves.

[verklaring]

"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."

A propaganda piece that fails to deal with actual demographics, which is declining. The world population is more likely to decrease in the next twenty years, due to the failure to reproduce, abortion and "birth control".

The media have been promoting this idea for decades. The do not need to increase their propaganda. What is needed is some facts, that most of the demographics of the world are below replacement level. That it is impossible with an inverted population pyramid to sustain care for the elderly and there can be no real economic growth without population growth.

We have had periods where the human population stayed the same or decreased, the black death in the middle ages and the Spanish flu after WWI are examples.

For some, out of religious belief, (not just Islam), children are viewed as a blessing, barrenness an affliction, and "blessed is the man that has his quiver full of them."

When the writer's god, the government, cannot take care of them, puts them in a nursing home or plans to eliminate them, and there is no one to visit them, they will be the most pathetic of the elderly in the world.

[Publius6961]

That's a lot of unintended consumers adding to our future climate change.

I had to stop reading right there.
Adding condescension to ignorance makes for a very unpromising discussion.

Nothing sabotages interest in a meaningful discussion as assumed agreement on a critical part of a discussion, where none exists or can possibly exist.

Climate change has always been with us, will always be with us and the population is irrelevant. The fittest will survive and the useless will die. Nature has neither heart nor conscience.