Brilliant Population Growth Article Likely Ignored By Gutless Leaders

[stuntcat]

A quarter of known mammal species, 43 percent of amphibians, 29 percent of reptiles and 14 percent of birds are threatened. African elephants may be extinct within a decade.

A third of world fisheries are exhausted or degraded. Forty percent of coral reefs and a third of mangroves have been destroyed or degraded. Most species of predator fish are in decline.

Ocean acidification, a product of fossil fuel burning, is dissolving calcifying plankton at the base of the food chain.

A garbage gyre at least twice the size of Texas swirls in the Pacific Ocean.

“We’re changing the ability of the planet to provide food and water,” Harte said.

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2013/09/brilliant-population-growth-article/

original article - http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Population-growth-increases-climate-fear-4781833.php#photo-4030729

[elleng]

1. Nothing like 'progress.'

Humans are 'progressing' life to extinction.



Let's see what ELSE we can do with our minds, eh?

[pscot]

2. We're clever enough as individuals

but there's stupidity in numbers. In the mass, as a vast organism, the snake brain is running the show; eat, drink, reproduce.

[freshwest]

3. When we point a finger of blame at politicians, we still have four pointing at us. It ain't all them

What do people expect, an all powerful planetary ruler to cage up every human who refuses to act in a responsible manner?

The harsh methods once employed by the Chinese government to reduce their population didn't stop their industrial pollution.

We have the other side who want no regulations on anything, period, and that's not the view of the government and poltiicans except the ones they elect.

The world's religions don't seem to care about the health of the planet, either. After all, TEOTWAWKI is always on the horizon, just as it is for the purveyors of anarchy and apocalyptic visions.

A gun in every hand will be necessary in their world and it'll cull the population.

Only problem is the troglodytes will be the only ones left. The ones who believe in ending all politicians, government and breeding enough to sweep out the rest of the living, plant, animal and human. They love death and killing.

Gutless polticians aren't the problem. People are. But some are moving away from the destructive model, so we ain't all gonna die. Just sayin'

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. One mistake the article makes - the US is not the only rich country with rapid growth

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?order=wbapi_data_value_2012+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=asc

The World Bank figures for 2012 have, for annual growth, and over the last 5 years:
USA 0.7% ; 4.0%
UK 0.8% ; 3.7%
Belgium 0.9% ; 4.8%
Switzerland 1.1% ; 5.7%
Canada 1.1% ; 5.7%
Norway 1.3% ; 6.3%
Australia 1.6% ; 7.6%
Israel 1.8% ; 9.6%