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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 04 2008 | environment, population
    The Elephant in the Room: Overpopulation : TreeHugger

    Not that I consider myself any sort of expert in sustainability, but I do understand the magic of compounding interest. Applied to population growth, where we're going is horrendously frightening and I wish more people would talk about it.

    Quoted: According to Andrew Chung of the Star, Alan Wiesman of The World without us says we have to "limit every human female on Earth capable of bearing children to one." "I'm not trying to be sensationalistic or controversial," he says in an interview. "I'm trying to get us to think very hard about what the whole situation is." If we don't control ourselves, nature will do it for us. Every species that eats itself out of house and home experiences a population crash."

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    • akabagel - Apr 04 2008

      I have an idea. Let's colonize space. Lots of room out there.

    • eric - Apr 04 2008

      Good idea. I grant you the rights to reproduce at frightening rate with any number of partners as soon as you colonize space. Voila. Problem solved. Until then, keep it in your pants Bagel!

    • akabagel - Apr 04 2008

      Sweet, babies for everyone at the asteroid belt.

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