Addressing Global Warming

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> At 09:29 PM Monday 4/28/2008, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
>   
>> Ronn!'s argument seems to imply that the environmental movement requires
>> some sort of eugenics to succeed and I find the implication offensive.
>>     
>
>
> And what I find offensive is the implication I often get from members 
> of the environmental movement that accomplishing their goals requires 
> some sort of eugenics, with statements like some of them have made 
> like "the carrying capacity of the Earth with people practicing a 
> sustainable lifestyle is at most something like half a billion 
> people."  And not just because certainly I and everyone else who has 
> any sort of health problems or otherwise are not in perfect health 
> and physical shape will be among the 90%+ who will find themselves 
> considered part of the "surplus population" under such circumstances . . .
>   
But then what *is* the sustainable carrying capacity of the Earth? And 
is uncontrolled breeding by human beings really feasible as a long-term 
policy? The fact that you don't like the implications does not, in 
itself, make their argument bad.

Regards,

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Kevin B. O'Brien         TANSTAAFL
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