From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 09 Dec 2002 - 18:45:52 GMT
> Joe said:
> >Yep, pollution (including ozone layer depletion and global warming),
> >natural resource depletion (including deforestation) and species
> >diversity loss all have as their common denominator human
> >overpopulation. Until this root cause is responsibly addressed, we
> >will be stuck with its disastrous effects.
> >>
> I disagree Joe. The so-called developed nations are not too badly
> overpopulated but they are the most harmful. IMO it is greed that is
> the cause of depletion and pollution. Jeremy
>
No, our pushing the environment to make so much more food and allow
populations to increase beyond their land's natural starvation/famine
limit, and our ability to thwart disease epidemics (the animal equivalents
of periodic forest fires), has caused many areas to be overpopulated to
levels many times their human load in all of recorded history, and still
the breeding continues. When the new, greater limits are themselves
breached (as Malthus assures us they always will be), the results
appear even more disastrous, because there are many more living to
die.
>
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