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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere do you go with this statement from the Duggars?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/duggars-overpopulation_n_1387640.html?ref=mostpopularI don't even know where to begin.......
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)I suppose by increasing the relative education/knowledge of the US in general, there will be more social peer pressure on this sort of thinking, but that's all I can think of.
lukkadairish
(122 posts)that gets me is the statement that the population of Earth can fit into J'ville FL......I am being exceedingly kind and guessing she has never been to Hong Kong or Mexico City...
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)It just depends on how high you stack them.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)It is also the observation of an air-head.
--imm
MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)That visual cracked me up!
tsuki
(11,994 posts)calimary
(81,305 posts)Useless even to try, methinks.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)She's subservience personified.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Over 6 billion people can "fit" inside of Jacksonville, Florida?
Yeah...sure... That says it all for me: she's wacko!!!...
Arkana
(24,347 posts)eight million kids they're used to that.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)If you remove all that useless space between our individual atoms.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)quakerboy
(13,920 posts)Wikipedia says 7.004 billion people. Figure that people are at least 2x1.5 feet, when standing up, so 3 sf/ person. 21 billion square feet.
A square mile holds 27,878,400 square feet. Jacksonville has 767 square miles. 21 billion square feet.
Technically, she is correct. If you tore out all the buildings, and no one were larger than average or had to sit down. But I am pretty sure that no fire marshal would approve Jacksonville for 7 billion occupancy.
I wonder if that density of people would result in people in the center suffocating, even if it were all open air.
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)For one thing, the city limits of Jacksonville, FL basically encompasses the entire county - which by land area makes Jacksonville one of the largest cities in the country.
Taking that into consideration, it might be possible to squeeze 6 billion people inside Jax. But that's it. There's absolutely no way in hell that 6 billion people could live inside Jax - just the very thought of that should be ludicrous.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)If God wants us to have as many kids as possible, he would never make the earth too crowded with people.
Therefore, overpopulation is a lie.
This is totally their logic.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)things to read about than the tabloid drivelings of a pseudo-celebrity.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)That's the thing about beliefs... they do not have to be based in fact. I doubt anyone could change her mind. She lives in a bubble where that is what she has been taught.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)And on edit, since somebody is going to ask for said studies, I'll just link to the entire wikipedia page on the subject-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)and they have a show on cable
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)Taitertots
(7,745 posts)If everyone did, we would starve on a mountain of shit and dead bodies.
The problem with overpopulation is that we need to feed everyone, take care of their waste, provide health care, support quality of life, and all of that takes resources.
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)it's their kids that are being home schooled.
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)By all evidence, she didn't get any of the history lessons the rest of us learned at school.
Raine
(30,540 posts)she sure got nothing out of it.
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)They actually believe that women should be pregnant at all times and that husbands and wives only have sex to procreate.
Their women are basically cows and the older children raise the younger ones.
They are discouraged from any form of critical thinking and almost always home schooled. News and information from the world outside their church and family is almost completely filtered.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Generally people in a cult will defend it, even while they are still victims of it.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)If all those animals fit into the ark, you know all the people on Earth could fit into Jacksonville. Seriously, they even had to get dinosaurs on the ark, didn't they?
kentauros
(29,414 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)the problem is we don't have the resources for a growing population, not enough clean water, or air or food or fuel. Land, yes there is enough land. That is what people think of when they think of over population. That is what I used to think when I looked around here in rural Arkansas and only saw 1 person for every 10 or 15 miles. Sure we could fit 1000 times more people here, could we feed them or give the clean water to drink, or provide fuel for their cars?
Nope.
provis99
(13,062 posts)The morons are rapidly outbreeding the thinkers.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Who cares what they say?
spanone
(135,844 posts)stupid is as stupid does
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Michelle Duggar is only about three kids away from her "ah, get that, would you Deidre?" moment. (Watch the "Every Sperm is Sacred" sketch in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life." Either that, or she's going to die during childbirth, which is God's way of saying "when I said to go forth and repopulate the Earth, I didn't mean you had to do it all by yourself."
There's really nothing you can say to Michelle Duggar to convince her God didn't really mean for her to have 22 kids or whatever it is now, so I don't worry about it.
arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)Mother Teresa, how about a "Duggars Go To India" episode.
Then maybe she can rethink that Jacksonville statement and
get a clue as to what overpopulation and poverty can look
like.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Instead of doing anything to alleviate it, like advocating for birth control, she made a business out of it.
Snake Alchemist
(3,318 posts)EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)made in the article.
She also grew up the daughter of a wealthy doctor and never knew a
day of the circumstances those she supposedly advocated for knew.
I'm no fan, trust me.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)It would be hard for me to disbelieve any ignorant, off base thing the woman says, especially when it comes to population control issues.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Who are the litter makers parasiting off now?
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Seriously, what else is there to say?
Johnny Rico
(1,438 posts)They can say whatever they like...
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I saw the graph on Up With Chris Hayes this morning. The number has gone from about 35% to 50%, more or less. If a scientific finding doesn't fit their dogma or belief system, Conservatives just reject it.