02-07-2011, 09:07 PM
Mark and Albert,
What do you suggest we do to address the "problem" of over population? Shall we simply continue to allow governments the ability to fabricate pseudo-justifications for war? Or perhaps we should just manufacture justification for out right genocide in third world countries and call it that? Or maybe we can force third world inhabitants to undergo an American Sterilization Process (mandatory tube tying for females and mandatory vasectomies for males), whereby each and every one of these third world inhabitants will be prevented from producing off spring until they have repaid the money we have loaned to them plus interest? Or maybe, in a rare display of tokenism, we can sterilize them independent of the repayment of the loans to show our generosity?
Perhaps, Mark would just prefer to give up? Sounds like it. Perhaps Albert would like to blame the Republicans and then give up.
Wow.
The education of which I speak isn't all that difficult to accomplish. I am not suggesting "EDUCATION" as in brick and mortar attendance. I'm talking about sharing SIMPLE INFORMATION--stuff that we have known for a century--with those who need to know about it now. If we don't help them to learn how to make their water potable, how to voluntarily limit the size of their families, how to produce more food for themselves, how to be self sufficient and get off of the "debt wagon" that we very artfully taught them about years ago--if we don't do those things then their problems will be bound to become our problems. In my view, those problems are already our problems. We're just too afraid to do the right thing. We bought into Malthusianism over a century ago, coupled it with Darwinism and now live in fear of extinction.
Oh, and by the way: HUMANS belong on this planet. It is our home. Let's not be so self important as to believe we can destroy the planet. We cannot. That is delusional and self involved thinking. The planet has survived a lot of things many times more powerful than humans. If we screw up long enough the planet will destroy us, not the other way around.
What do you suggest we do to address the "problem" of over population? Shall we simply continue to allow governments the ability to fabricate pseudo-justifications for war? Or perhaps we should just manufacture justification for out right genocide in third world countries and call it that? Or maybe we can force third world inhabitants to undergo an American Sterilization Process (mandatory tube tying for females and mandatory vasectomies for males), whereby each and every one of these third world inhabitants will be prevented from producing off spring until they have repaid the money we have loaned to them plus interest? Or maybe, in a rare display of tokenism, we can sterilize them independent of the repayment of the loans to show our generosity?
Perhaps, Mark would just prefer to give up? Sounds like it. Perhaps Albert would like to blame the Republicans and then give up.
Wow.
The education of which I speak isn't all that difficult to accomplish. I am not suggesting "EDUCATION" as in brick and mortar attendance. I'm talking about sharing SIMPLE INFORMATION--stuff that we have known for a century--with those who need to know about it now. If we don't help them to learn how to make their water potable, how to voluntarily limit the size of their families, how to produce more food for themselves, how to be self sufficient and get off of the "debt wagon" that we very artfully taught them about years ago--if we don't do those things then their problems will be bound to become our problems. In my view, those problems are already our problems. We're just too afraid to do the right thing. We bought into Malthusianism over a century ago, coupled it with Darwinism and now live in fear of extinction.
Oh, and by the way: HUMANS belong on this planet. It is our home. Let's not be so self important as to believe we can destroy the planet. We cannot. That is delusional and self involved thinking. The planet has survived a lot of things many times more powerful than humans. If we screw up long enough the planet will destroy us, not the other way around.
GO_SECURE
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)