I tripped across this posted by someone I once respected, but jumps to attach himself to every pseudo-science conspiracy out there. I guess to some, any blog post questioning conventional wisdom (or science) helps them prove their radical cred. He lost my respect denying global warming - now wants to push the idea that overpopulation, too, is a myth. UGHHH! I struggled through and read the whole thing. There are enough points of truth in the article to make it dangerous for weak minds, mixed in with unsourced, or worse, BLOG-post sourced (equally unsourced on their pages, truly) fallacy to make it sound almost credible. The point they make - that it has to be an either/or dichotomy misses the forest for the tree that just toppled on their pointy little head. It is BOTH - Capitalism and its enormously unjust distribution of wealth AND over-population that is killing the planet. While they extol how grain production could feed us all; they ignore what that size production kills ecosystems that sustain life on Earth. Under the sub-header about Arable vs Non-arable land? There was nothing. Nothing about deforestation, nothing about Ocean acidification, nothing about rising sea-levels, nothing about CARBON in the atmosphere. The fit in Texas scenario is just a mathematical straw man. At no point is individual consumption addressed: Beyond food, clothing, shelter, heat, light, and most of all WATER. At no point is waste addressed, beyond human excrement, the waste from all the consumption of the above. Trying to sell eco-houses is the main point I think - and of course, only the wealthy can afford them. Basically, it absolves people, and makes them feel good to keep breeding - after all, they can blame someone else - and take no personal responsibility. IOW - this really pissed me off. collective-evolution/2014/10/25/overpopulation-a-fact-or-myth/
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 13:08:27 +0000
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