Scientists studying the carrying capacity of the earth—that is how many of us can live here sustainably—have fluctuated massively. Wild-eyed optimists believe it’s close to 2 billion. Dour pessimists say 300 million. The point is that—and I’m going by the best of those figures—we need to lose 4.4 billion people and we need to lose them fast.
–Author Steven Kotler, writing at Psychology Today. His solution to overpopulation: everyone, everywhere should stop having children for five years. That would chop a billion off the planet’s population. What about the other 3.4 billion we “need to lose…fast”? He doesn’t say, so your guess is as good as mine.
(Via Mark Shea–follow the link through the Center for Free Inquiry to get the rest of Kotler’s dopey nonsense.)
April 24, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Um, right. Is he volunteering to be the first one to jump off a cliff?
April 25, 2009 at 2:02 pm
This man is a psychologist and not qualified to make such a statement. What he writes is a typical green pseudo-scientific mythic methane emission.
His statement reveals a lot about himself and his colleagues in the green political party – shows they believe human life is expendable and can be evaluated and allowed to live on the basis of some kind of formula: productivity, minus what it ingests added to the space and energy it requires.
Shows how unfeeling and inhumane this ‘movement’ is.
As someone said, the greens are the old reds, a socialist veneer over an oligarchy core.
April 27, 2009 at 11:36 am
Maybe this folks can prove their point by leading by example. They show the unwashed, by their elimination how the earth will be saved. Don’t think that will happen soon.
April 27, 2009 at 1:11 pm
And how does he propose to handle the MASSIVE baby boom that follows those 5 years? I imagine that would put quite the strain on all resources, environmental and man made.
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