Letters Oct 4, 2012 at 4:00 am
Hey look! Someone sent an actual letter.

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Re: JG Miller's comment
Which population? The average American consumes 370 times as much energy as the average Ethiopian, whose centuries' old intricate and sustainable agricultural system was totally destroyed by its government, not by "nature." And it's silly to blame people who have children for this problem, since every objective study shows Europe is aging, which means fewer and fewer young people are available to support its social welfare systems. Meanwhile, the Chinese are now facing huge problems related to their one-child policy, which translates into "kill girls, favor boys." Most of our global warming problems would be solved by a transitioning away from fossil fuels. Population isn't the problem, it's wasteful resource consumption. If we truly became a recycling society (including turning our human waste into fertilizer, a technique that has been pioneered in Haiti), legalized the growth of industrial hemp, invested in solar and wind power, etc., and harnessed the genius of the alternative energy, food and medicine worlds, the population controllers would be shown for what they are, needlessly alarmist at best, sinister totalitarians promoting gendercide at worst.
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"My only criticism is that you didn't hammer home more forcefully the consequences of human population size on all of this; any thoughtful person can infer it easily, but most people think they have a divine right to breed anyway, and that their children and grandchildren will surely have better lives than they did, by some magical process."


THIS letter truly has a valid point here. When most humans feel as thought they have the god-blessed, jesus-approved ABSOLUTE divine right to breed as much as they damn well want and that each of their individual spawn have such an equal right to breed as much as THEY want, it can spell nothing but utter disaster for us all!

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