Put 2 & 2 together. We are both anguished at the world situation.
The roads are lined with immigrants competing for the type of low pay work that musicians and actors take when there is no professional work....
Overpop is a major driver of mass migration.
I'm getting very impatient with the discussion here because of the reality that I know and experience daily. It seems that no one is interested in hearing what is going on out here and how dire it is...
Agree
Americans can get very short about taking care of everyone elses children...
If religion and stupidity weren't so prevalent, aid for family planning and health could reduce unwanted babies & reduce migrations as well.
(<10% of what the rich nations give as aid would easilly cover it)
The problem with War is that it is addictive and we are all once more wrapped in the simplicities of life and death. ...
One of the 4 horsemen. We are part of nature, and culling will not be slowed (my opinion) except by rational reduction of births.
It may be the lesser of the Evils in a very fanatical and miserable world that is getting more so but that is a miserable excuse for a society and a philosophy...
Market economies aren't equivalent to mega scale consolidation of wealth and power. We don't have free trade, and I doubt it is possible beyond local small scale societies.
Why do you and so many others persist in saying scale doesn't matter?
Steve
-- http://magma.ca/~gpco/ http://www.scientists4pr.org/ Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.—Kenneth Boulding
