Oil is essential to a WORTHWHILE existence, not to mere survival. Plus several forms of contraception are themselves petroleum based, so oil is essential to a...
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suza2875
Jan 30, 2012 3:00 pm
Yes, "that economy and technology is heavily based on oil", so the sustainable population is the natural formation rate of oil times the per capita oil...
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suza2875
Jan 29, 2012 10:04 pm
JT below uses the USA as a theoratical example of a nation beginning a population education process, but neglects to observe that India is already well under...
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suza2875
Jan 29, 2012 9:25 pm
JT has a point about religious groups that overpopulate and pass on their overpopulationg values, though I think he overestimates the ability of parents to...
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suza2875
Jan 29, 2012 9:01 pm
I object to two ideas here. One is that it is NOT decision makers who count, it is ordinary people. When the people lead, the leaders will be shoved aside, so...
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suza2875
Jan 27, 2012 10:20 pm
One important fact about India that I think you are missing; India is currently moving back towards more fertility reduction incentives, this time more...
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suza2875
Jan 22, 2012 8:30 pm
FINALLY!!!! This is the core of the population movement. Immigration and planning ar peripheral at best and irrelevent by comparison because niether...
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suza2875
Jan 21, 2012 4:52 am
I fully understand and agree with #2 below, but since regulating fertility is politically impossible, I don't bother advocating for it. But my main pint is...
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suza2875
Jan 20, 2012 6:36 pm
The problem with outright trashing California is that we have to simultaniously hold it up as a model of the bluestates' best contraception, abortion rights...
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suza2875
Jan 20, 2012 1:36 am
Actually, I'm not at all worried about the age structure and the only reason I picked 1.5 over 0.001 is that we can prove that a society can achive 1.5 because...
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suza2875
Jan 18, 2012 8:21 pm
1.5 is a better number than 2 not because it is lower, for example .08 is NOT a better number than 1.5. 1.5 is the best number because it has been achieved in...
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suza2875
Jan 18, 2012 7:59 pm
Firstly, the societal knowledge does exist outside of China, critically, it exists in certain US communities like Santa Cruz CA and Cambridge MA, and these...
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suza2875
Jan 18, 2012 7:12 pm
I think that 1.5 is a far more "magical" number than 2. It is a number that several nations have achieved, but not many. And many of the nations that have...
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suza2875
Jan 18, 2012 6:38 pm
The best population strategy is the same everywhere, in the first world, the third world and especially our home towns. It is to transfer tax and charitable...
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suza2875
Jan 18, 2012 1:32 am
You are way overestimating the political difficulty here. We need do nothing like such authoritarian actions as proposed to reverse population growth as...
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suza2875
Jan 16, 2012 6:30 pm
Far from ideal but it is an overpopulation song. Views expressed don't necessarily reflect etc. ...
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Jan 16, 2012 2:47 am
Dear Al, thanks for the comment. I agree with you. I am convinced that pronatalist abound in communist, religious, tribal, capitalist, environmentalist, and in...
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suza2875
Jan 15, 2012 10:34 pm
No I don't see it because so many third world anti-imperialists leaders are or were themselves pronatalist, like Saddam Hussain, Hugo Chavez, the Taliban...
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suza2875
Jan 15, 2012 10:03 pm
No I don't see it because so many third world anti-imperialists leaders are or were themselves pronatalist, like Saddam Hussain, Hugo Chavez, the Taliban...
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eco_h2o
Jan 15, 2012 6:27 am
Debts and their solutions. When a parent (or a nation) has an enormous debt, unpayable and growing, the "solution"; (for the creditors, and normally taken as a...
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eco_h2o
Jan 15, 2012 4:37 am
Maybe it is not evident to many people, but for me these "economic strategies", have a lot to do with overpopulation and the tabu to speak about it in many...
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suza2875
Jan 14, 2012 10:30 pm
Don't forget his pivotal overpopulation speech! http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/reverend-martin-luth er-king-jr-4728.htm Family Planning...
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suza2875
Jan 5, 2012 7:00 pm
I have heard that argument made by leaders in the field, but cannot point to any scientific studies. I start my counterpoint with the scientific maxim...
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suza2875
Dec 14, 2011 6:23 pm
Professor Roger Short has co-authored a paper in The Lancet <http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2961 746-7/fulltext?rss=yes> ...
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suza2875
Dec 10, 2011 2:57 am
Any and every other city can do this more easily than DC, but don't bother. DC is the ONLY city that must struggle this way to do what's right for the...
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suza2875
Dec 8, 2011 12:43 pm
He's very good in general, but makes a couple of very big errors. One is saying that population policies that can't be accomplished at the global level can...
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suza2875
Dec 8, 2011 12:43 pm
This is a bit of an absurd headline. Obvioulsy 1% of 7 billion is 70 million and 1% of a smaller population would be smaller. 1% of an optimum population of 6...
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Nov 8, 2011 1:48 pm
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