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originally posted by: Baddogma
Those saying "But the U.S. has lots of room" are ignorant of the vast mess in Asia and other third world areas. It IS killing our ecosystem... well, it's really the deforestation and pollution from industrialization, but same difference.
3) What some presently view as "overpopulation" is more accurately described as crushing poverty amidst the potential for plenty and resources left unused. This is the result of despotism, corruption, economic ignorance, short-sighted greed and the inhumanity of man unto man - it is not a matter of counting heads
The Famine, or An Górta Mór, the Great Hunger, took more than one million lives, between those that died of starvation and those that left Ireland for a better life in America or elsewhere in the world. Those who were left behind in Ireland experienced a desperation that led to a massive change in politics and nationalism - it was only a few years later, in 1858 that the Irish Republican Brotherhood was founded.
The British government and the British and Irish Protestant landowners still required the Irish peasants and laborers to pay their rent for the land they could not work due to the blight and the hunger upon them. In a lush island surrounded by water teaming with fish and land that fattened pig and cattle alike, how could one failed crop cause a Famine? According to British law, Irish Catholics could not apply for fishing or hunting licenses.
Their pigs and cattle were sent to England to feed the British and to export for trade, while the landlords kept the fine cuts for themselves. Ireland was part of the British Empire, the most powerful empire in the world at that time - yet the British government stood by and did nothing to help their subjects overcome this hardship. In our time, an enforced famine such as this would be labeled genocide yet in the 1800s it was merely an unfortunate tragedy.
originally posted by: Gothmog
Will he be the first to launch himself head first into space ?
If you brought every single person in the world together into the State of Texas , there would be at least a 1' radius around everyone
Africa is 3% populated. Of that 3% , 97% live on or near the coast.
Some folks have no capacity at all to think rationally , much less logically
originally posted by: Hyperboles
a reply to: neoholographic
Yes the planet is overpopulated
originally posted by: 4003fireglo
originally posted by: Gothmog
Will he be the first to launch himself head first into space ?
If you brought every single person in the world together into the State of Texas , there would be at least a 1' radius around everyone
Africa is 3% populated. Of that 3% , 97% live on or near the coast.
Some folks have no capacity at all to think rationally , much less logically
DO NOT BRING ALL THOSE PEOPLE TO TEXAS. This is your only warning.
originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: neoholographic
speaking as a "bloody yank" ....who cares what the Duke of Cambridge thinks
originally posted by: EternalShadow
Your main point is limiting reproduction worldwide, or just in the "problem areas"?
That could be more aptly seen as a warning that a culling of life is "needed" or "necessary" and limiting birth as a suggestion is to lesson the truth that a major war with tremendous loss of life is needed...
originally posted by: Gothmog
Will he be the first to launch himself head first into space ?
If you brought every single person in the world together into the State of Texas , there would be at least a 1' radius around everyone
Africa is 3% populated. Of that 3% , 97% live on or near the coast.
Some folks have no capacity at all to think rationally , much less logically
we whooped his ancestors redcoat wearing asses
he should worry about his tiny island