Comments on: Population Control – Is Anyone Willing to Talk About It?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:41:31 +0000

Is the Proposed Trans Global Highway a solution for population concerns and global warming?
One tremendous solution to future population concerns as well as alleviating many of the effects of potential global warming is the proposal for the construction of the “Trans Global Highway”. The proposed Trans Global Highway would create a world wide network of standardized roads, railroads, water pipe lines, oil and gas pipelines, electrical and communication cables. The result of this remarkable, far sighted project will be global unity through far better distribution of resources, including including heretofore difficult to obtain or unaccessible raw materials, fresh water, finished products and vastly lower global transportation costs.
With greatly expanded global fresh water distribution, arid lands could be cultivated resulting in a huge abundance of global food supplies. The most conservative estimate is that with the construction of the Trans Global Highway, the planet will be able to feed between 14 and 16 Billion people, just using presently available modern farming technologies. With a present global population of just under 7 billion people and at the United Nations projection of population increase, the world will produce enough food surpluses to feed the expected increased population for the next 425 years. Thomas Robert Malthus’s famous dire food shortage predictions of 1798 failed to take into consideration modern advances in farming, transportation, food storage and food abundance. Further information on the proposed Trans Global Highway can be found at http://www.TransGlobalHighway.com .

By: T J Carter

T J Carter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:34:24 +0000

It is very simple to me. You are going to have to control the population or end of the human race is certain. I have seen the world change in my life time. Springs and creeks drying up. Streams that have to be stocked with fish or they would be lifeless. Animals already disappearing at an alarming rate. I think even harsher measure than China has implemented should go in place. It is time that selective breeding is considered. I would rather this than the end of the human race and mass extension of most animal species.

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By: Jim Renner

Jim Renner — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:37:19 +0000

As with many issues, vocabulary is important. Phrases like "population control" are guaranteed to incite some knee-jerk, unreasonable reaction. Is there a substitute term? If there is, perhaps it leads us to a broader set of alternative solutions. The problem of soiling our own nest is rooted in unchecked population growth and might be diminished by population control, but it's also rooted in ever-increasing consumer demands and seemingly limitless technology to supply the demands. Unfortunately, proposing limits on consumer demand are almost as politically suicidal as proposing population control, but I suspect we have more options, some of which can operate in the marketplace (such as increased rates for increased water consumption). So while we work on the agonizingly slow cultural changes that may lead to population control, we should also expend do whatever we can to reduce consumer demand. If you are a couple with one kid and you live in a 5000 sq ft house, it's not sustainable, no matter how much insulation you have.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:39:31 +0000

Even unreasonable people have to admit there is a point when there will be too many people. Would you consider it if there were 1 trillion people? Or should we let nature take its course and we consume ourselves into extinction with the rest of the natural world?

By: mickeycz

mickeycz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:08:58 +0000

US Census projections postulate a 0.5 % rate of growth by 2050, down from the current rate of about 1.2%.

(http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldgrgraph.html)

Who knows, maybe we will have another century such as the 20th, where wars and repressive political systems took out a spare 100 million or so.

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The Energy Net » Top 100 Energy Stories (March 23rd - 29th) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:22:01 +0000

[...] Population Control – Is Anyone Willing to Talk About It? : Red, Green, and Blue Scott Cooney of Red, Green, and Blue recently wrote a thought provoking post about the need for population control as a fundamental and necessary tool to deal with a wide range of environmental crises. He refers to population control as the elephant in the room when it comes to policymakers. This is certainly an apt description of the issue, and it may even be considered an understatement. I would go so far as to say that population control is regarded as political suicide and a topic that is seemingly avoided at all costs. [...]

By: John

John — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:30:04 +0000

Stephen and Scott,

You guys should take the lead to abort your children and kill yourself and your family in the name of population control. And maybe you can also ask war criminal Henry Kissenger if he would also like to volunteer as he has advocated millions of deaths in 3rd world countries using food as a weapon per State Department Memorandum 200.

By: Scott Cooney

Scott Cooney — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:28:58 +0000

Stephen,

Thanks for the post and the reference to my earlier article. I think, as with many topics that are too hot to touch for politicians, population issues need to be addressed outside the political realm as much as they are within the political realm. While policy is important, as I discussed in my post, it's also crucial for each of us to support the issues we care about in other ways, such as supporting Planned Parenthood, advocating for economic opportunities for women in developing countries, and even encouraging our friends and family to think about the broader concepts of population and finite resources.