jon louis mann wrote: > what I find offensive is the implication I often get from members of > the environmental movement that accomplishing their goals requires some > sort of eugenics, with statements like some of them have made like "the > carrying capacity of the Earth with people practicing a > sustainable lifestyle is at most something like half a billion people." > And not just because certainly I and everyone else who has any sort of > health problems or otherwise are not in perfect health and physical > shape will be among the 90%+ who will find themselves > considered part of the "surplus population" under such circumstances. . > . > . . . ronn! :) > > i doubt that there are many environmentalists who actually advocate > drastic measures to attain sustainability. i think balance will be > achieved either through technology, or through collapse. > jon > I think that it is clear that nature will restore a balance if necessary. If we are indeed over-populated (and I suspect that is the case), the balance will be restored through the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in some kind of combination. Whether Ronn will find that less offensive I cannot say.
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