Are We Breeding Ourselves to Extinction?
Cutting back on fossil fuels, shutting down our coal plants, and building seas of wind turbines, will be useless unless we nip population growth. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Environment, Global Warming, Pollution, Climate Change
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Population Explosion, ecosystem
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Posted by Dwight Rousu - Mar 11, 2009 - 5:29 PM PDT
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Dwight Rousu - Mar 11, 2009 - 5:29 PM PDT
Hedges focuses on the need for population control to constrain climate change and the current great extinction, and the failure of advocates and press coverage to address the issue.
All efforts to stanch the effects of climate change are not going to work if we do not practice vigorous population control. More »
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This is an insightful and important article because it address an important topic that's not getting much attention. If this author is correct, we likely have too narrow a focus that won't allow us to handle this problem with the intelligence it deserves.
The idea of put limits how many children people can have isn't pleasant, but it's something we may need to seriously consider.
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