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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (18115)12/9/2007 12:19:53 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
Wrong again: <I was the one stating that population control is preferred to control via suffering. You were the one in favor of continued population growth. > If you read the fine print, you might have seen the expression Peak People. You will find the date 2037 if you do an SI search.

You obviously failed to understand my posts. I am in favour of population growth and have been working at it myself [successfully - not leaving it up to others]. But as I explained, a few times, Peak People is a certainty. So despite my efforts in producing descendants and CO2, we will have a decline in population and CO2 emissions.

You might have read about contraceptives and pitter patter of little feet. You obviously didn't "get it".

You thought Africans dying would solve "their population problem". I thought that was a hideous and malevolent idea and their main problems are things like AIDS and political repression and confiscation, not too many people.

You seem unable to test your assumptions against what people actually choose to do <Assume the generation is about 30 years (most likely being generous here), then about 9 generations or 270 years takes Zim from its current pop to 6.5B, the current world pop. You think Zim can support 6.5B in 270 years? > You seem to think Zimbabweans are like mindless ants who will just go on reproducing until they are stopped by nature red in tooth and claw. In case you don't know, some of them have brains and can even think a bit. Women in Zimbabwe might even decide that contraception would be a good idea. Your assumptions might be bung Neo - in 200 years, I think some Zimbabweans might make different choices from those choice made in recent decades.

You have obviously learned some simple arithmetic in your day, maybe even have heard of exponentiality. That works for chemical reactions and reproduction of mindless organisms, but it doesn't work for humans who have brains. Perhaps you don't know that Zimbabweans have brains and are [for the most part] human. [Current leadership notwithstanding].

Mqurice [Okay, that's definitely it = fingers moaning; evolution designed them for only a certain amount of typing]
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