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Originally posted by NoHierarchy
Many of you don't seem to understand the entirety or the science of overpopulation...
The science is clear- human population is EXPLODING exponentially...
We are exceeding the carrying capacity of the planet- agriculturally, ecologically, economically and even despoiling clean air/water...
A lot of you seem to be rabidly against notions of human overpopulation not with any hard scientific support but simply a weakly supported moral tirade against it...
...YES IT SUCKS! YES IT'S NOT EASY TO SOLVE! But like global warming, THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT'S NOT HAPPENING. Just because you don't want to deal with these massive and very real problems doesn't mean it's all a big hoax or conspiracy against you. It's time to get real...
The science is clear- human population is EXPLODING exponentially...
Originally posted by JR MacBeth
What I'm about to share next is probably going to require a pretty healthy dose of the recommended humility, but perhaps our readers here can try and suppress the programmed reaction, and if not, at least make note of it.
Human populations are actually falling, worldwide, and have been, for decades.
Reactions anyone? OK, now a good percentage at this point can probably go ahead and take your blue pill, and then go back to your televisions for further instructions. As for the rest, are you sure you want the red pill?
...seems like your rebuttals contain a lot of wordy hot-air that has been repeated over and over in this thread.
You seem to replace reality and scientific facts with vague counter-arguments, science taken out of context/scope, and notions of a giant conspiracy to teach us that humans are hurting the planet when we're really not.
But the reality is UNDENIABLE, humans are rapidly destroying the biosphere...
This INCLUDES overpopulation and all of its consequences, it INCLUDES the use of pollutive fossil fuels...
It's a hard pill to swallow I know, and it's not easy to escape this "Matrix" (if we are to continue the reference)... but it still exists and we cannot cover it up and pretend everything's alright by obfuscating the facts with seemingly equally weighted facts (when they're actually light as a feather) and moral indignation...
The moral/ethical crime of our time is not that we recognize the problems humans are causing but that there is a concentrated effort to DENY them and continue them at all costs.
Humility comes not from denying our destructive role (that's absolute Orwellian double-think) but to accept that we are all, to some degree, responsible for the destruction of ecosystems
people who have now settled in England who are not white
like to have as many children as they can pop out regardless
whether they can support them themselves or not.
where us white original English people have on average
2 or 3 kids
yes i know its possibly the worst written unstructured
piece of bad grammar etc but i cant seem to get the rite words
without sounding like a racist bigot.