Bruce wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duggar_family - more specific example
Someone needs to tell them it's a uterus, not a clown car. :-p
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bruce wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duggar_family - more specific example
Someone needs to tell them it's a uterus, not a clown car. :-p
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bruce wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duggar_family - more specific example
Someone needs to tell them it's a uterus, not a clown car. :-p
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At 07:44 AM Thursday 9/18/2008, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Bruce wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duggar_family - more specific example
Someone needs to tell them it's a uterus, not a clown car. :-p
I guess that all depends on whether the kids join the circus.
. . . ronn! :)
On 17/09/2008, at 8:52 AM, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
Deciding who does and does not get to have children (or deciding how
many they're allowed to have) is in the same class of problems as
deciding who lives or who dies.
But noting that in affluent, educated societies, birth-rates fall (and
At 05:37 PM Tuesday 9/16/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
No, it's just what I ask _everybody_ who suggests that approaching 7
billion (or whatever the current world population happens to be) is
too many people: where _specifically_ do you
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Bostwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The fact that deciding which of the existing 6-7 billion should be
allowed to live is an extremely thorny ethical and moral question (and
one I wouldn't even begin to be qualified to answer) doesn't take away
from the fact
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
There is a third
option, if viable enough habitats can be created elsewhere in the
solar system -- ::eyes Mars enviously::
Opening new frontiers is never a solution to overpopulation. The
reason is that emmigration will only reduce the home population
by a tiny
On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:28 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 05:37 PM Tuesday 9/16/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
No, it's just what I ask _everybody_ who suggests that
approaching 7
billion (or whatever the current world population happens
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Bruce Bostwick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(It also doesn't address the fact that certain subcultures within that
population are deliberately breeding children at a greatly
*accelerated* rate, specifically as a long-term strategy to promote
their own ideologies
At 03:30 PM Tuesday 9/16/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
I said that we can't feed the world and dispense with
agribusiness, but i hope we can dispense make food production more
productive and less destructive to habitats. we are approaching 7
billion people and little sign of reaching zpg.
On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:46 AM, Wayne Eddy wrote:
From: Bruce Bostwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The fact that deciding which of the existing 6-7 billion should be
allowed to live is an extremely thorny ethical and moral question
(and
one I wouldn't even begin to be qualified to answer) doesn't
On Sep 17, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Bruce Bostwick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(It also doesn't address the fact that certain subcultures within
that
population are deliberately breeding children at a greatly
*accelerated* rate,
No, it's just what I ask _everybody_ who suggests
approaching 7
billion (or whatever the current world population
happens to be) is
too many people: where _specifically_ do you
suggest that the
needed reductions be made, and if you personally are not at
the head
of that list, how
On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:01 AM, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 17/09/2008, at 8:52 AM, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
Deciding who does and does not get to have children (or deciding how
many they're allowed to have) is in the same class of problems as
deciding who lives or who dies.
But noting that in
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Bruce Bostwick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 17, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
Cite?
Come on, you knew that was coming. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull - only one example, but
rather representative
On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Bruce Bostwick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 17, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
Cite?
Come on, you knew that was coming. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull - only one example, but
At 03:55 PM Sunday 9/14/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
I'd like to see some numbers on how we could feed the
existing mouths
at a price they can afford to pay if the latter
restrictions were enforced worldwide. Do you have any?
. . . ronn! :)
hell no!~) i said that we can't feed the
I said that we can't feed the world and dispense with
agribusiness, but i hope we can dispense make food production more
productive and less destructive to habitats. we are approaching 7
billion people and little sign of reaching zpg.
So what selection criteria do you suggest be used?
On Sep 14, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
Any solution yet to the problem that any sort of advance in the
efficiency of growing and producing crops is immediately countered by
a corresponding increase in population and thus demand for the
I said that we can't feed the world and dispense with
agribusiness, but i hope we can dispense make food production more
productive and less destructive to habitats. we are approaching 7
billion people and little sign of reaching zpg.
So what selection criteria do you suggest be used?
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
I said that we can't feed the world and dispense with
agribusiness, but i hope we can dispense make food production more
productive and less destructive to habitats. we are approaching 7
billion people and little sign of reaching zpg.
So what
At 03:30 PM Tuesday 9/16/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
I said that we can't feed the world and dispense with
agribusiness, but i hope we can dispense make food production more
productive and less destructive to habitats. we are approaching 7
billion people and little sign of reaching zpg.
On 17/09/2008, at 8:05 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
No, it's just what I ask _everybody_ who suggests that approaching 7
billion (or whatever the current world population happens to be) is
too many people: where _specifically_ do you suggest that the
needed reductions be made, and if you
On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
No, it's just what I ask _everybody_ who suggests that approaching 7
billion (or whatever the current world population happens to be) is
too many people: where _specifically_ do you suggest that the
needed reductions be made, and if you
On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 17/09/2008, at 8:05 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
No, it's just what I ask _everybody_ who suggests that approaching 7
billion (or whatever the current world population happens to be) is
too many people: where _specifically_ do you suggest
I'd like to see some numbers on how we could feed the
existing mouths
at a price they can afford to pay if the latter
restrictions were enforced worldwide. Do you have any?
. . . ronn! :)
hell no!~) i said that we can't feed the world and dispense with agribusiness,
but i hope we can
On Sep 14, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
I'd like to see some numbers on how we could feed the
existing mouths
at a price they can afford to pay if the latter
restrictions were enforced worldwide. Do you have any?
. . . ronn! :)
hell no!~) i said that we can't feed the world
Jon said:
You have it bass ackwards, Rich.
Fair trade makes poor people less poor.
Some poor people less poor in the short term, anyway. Are you in
favour of subsidies in general? (Not that fair trade is quite a
subsidy, but it's close.)
What is GCU Way?
I was just commenting on being
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