Population Growth "Alarmism" as a Deep Political Control Device

[Greg Burnham]

What role do they play, Mark? Termites destroy trees. Humans destroy trees, too. Roaches scavenge the food of other species. Humans rarely, if ever, do that.

Termites play an important ecological role by recycling dead plant matter, especially in the rainforest environment.

You seem to be arguing from an entirely human growth perspective. You're almost fanatical about that.

Carpeting the planet with human beings will decimate other species and eventually lead to our own demise. There won't be any food for a start.

Perhaps I argue from a human perspective because I am human. Look, I don't encourage pollution, hunting a species to extinction, proliferation of nukes, irresponsible reproduction of human life, and many other things that you probably discourage as well. However, the "alarmism" around Malthusian over population models tends to PROMOTE war, not abate it; tends to promote the hunting of species to extinction, not preserve it; tends to produce government policies wherein the conglomerate farming corporations are paid by the government NOT to grow food in order to increase the value of the shareholders stock; tends to spend billions of research dollars in pseudo attempts to cure diseases that are secretly believed to be needed in order to control population growth in third world countries; and on and on and on and on.

If we believe that population growth is an unsolvable problem--or is a problem worth ALARM--we will tend to go along with the existing program that does NOT work. We will do this if for no other reason than we will continue to fail to think for ourselves and fail to think outside the box.