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This article sure goes against the grain of conventional wisdom. Well, not really. It is probably a denier document. But quite convincing in some respects.

Overpopulation is Not the Problem

What is interesting is that it does not mention warming or climate change.

It does tell me that I am clever enough to get over the problems we have and that cities can grow unabated without any limit. Population can keep on going, increasing forever. There will be enough food for everyone.

Even though there is not enough food for everyone now.

It pretty much assumes that living on top of one another might even be enjoyable.

I don't know.

It was in the NYTimes, right?

I thought to myself that they have to be even handed if only a little bit. Perhaps this is a bow to that impulse.

I have been a believer in the need to limit population long before it reached the level it is now. It is pretty hard to swallow a lifetime of data and belief.

It is interesting to see this reasoned article and then have a "Huh?" reaction.

Huh?

Don't ever say that this blog is one sided.

Labels: population explosion

NO WONDER ITS SO CROWDED AT THE MALL

I found these graphs fascinating.

But not surprising.

It does show that we need to quit living so close together.

But what we really need is less people.

I have ranted on this before but when I was a kid and young adult there was incredible stress on the "population explosion". The bomb.

There was a lot tried here and there to get people to tie it off.

Failed.

The RCs don't want it, the biggest enemies of birth control. Other factors, mostly the agrarians who need bodies. The ignorant and exploited.

Only China took it to heart and to the system. But no one thinks they want that kind of tough love.

And the Chinese do have a flair for the cruel mandate.

But what about the cruelty of poverty and all the rest.

The population bomb went off a long time ago. Early death and disease and now pollution will do randomly and much more cruelly what we have failed to do ourselves.

And look at me. In the middle of that time and place with all the screaming going on, we had five kids, not one of whom I could imagine doing without.

Labels: birth control, population explosion