Population Growth "Alarmism" as a Deep Political Control Device

[Magda Hassan]

If the resources needed by humans are truly being tapped beyond sustainability, then perhaps it is just time for us to go extinct. That's the way it is for other species, why not us, too? The idea that we can somehow manage and preserve a Malthusian "unsustainable environment" by killing each other is simply absurd, in my view.

But, what if there are other choices? What if...?

I think Timothy Leary was pondering these same ideas,and,eventually came to the conclusion that Space Migration would be a good "other choice". :bolt:

I know you were jesting Keith but I think Leary was genuine. He was really keen on all that space travel stuff in his later years. I find it a bit hard to comprehend as I quite like my home and don't see the attraction of venturing off into a vacuum looking for some where else to start all over again and real space travel seems such a let down after all that inner space travel. But as I some times mutter to myself "If they can send one man to the moon why can't they send them all?" I can think of a few I would volunteer for a one way rocket trip.

Sorry Greg, to divert the thread. I actually think there is enough resources for the planets as it stands. It is a matter of distribution on a matter of need. Education, particularly of women, results in smaller familes. But i don't see the resources going into education. It seems to be that the new economy is based on war production with regular human sacrifices.