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LA TIMES: The world's biggest problem? Too many people.
Los Angeles Times ^ | July 21, 2011 | by: Mary Ellen Harte

Posted on 07/21/2011 12:12:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: driftdiver
Muslims countries are having lots of babies, as are most latins.

Soooo, to save the world for future generations... we must kill off all the 'breeders'.

She's advocating the extermination of all Muslims!

And that's *RACIST*!!!

61 posted on 07/21/2011 5:06:21 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’s a co-conspirator with Paul Ehrlich? I was wondering how anyone talking about how we’re all doomed would fail to remember the history of Paul Ehrlich and his predictions, but she’s a government-funded tool looking to fleece taxpayers for her idiotic science.


62 posted on 07/21/2011 5:10:29 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Authors' connection with President Barack Obama:

The AUTHORS of this article: Mary Ellen Harte is coauthor of "Cool the Earth, Save the Economy." Anne Ehrlich is a senior research scientist at Stanford University. John Harte and Paul Ehrlich contributed to this piece. All are biologists involved in the study of climate change and sustainability.

Overpopulation was an early concern and interest. In a 1969 article, [John P.] Holdren and co-author Paul R. Ehrlich argued that, "if the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come." In 1973 [John P.] Holdren encouraged a decline in fertility to well below replacement in the United States, because "210 million now is too many and 280 million in 2040 is likely to be much too many."

In 1977, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and [John P.] Holdren co-authored the textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment; they discussed the possible role of a wide variety of solutions to overpopulation, from voluntary family planning to enforced population controls, including forced sterilization for women after they gave birth to a designated number of children, and recommended "the use of milder methods of influencing family size preferences" such as access to birth control and abortion.

John P. Holdren CURRENTLY: John P. Holdren serves President Barack Obama as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy

63 posted on 07/21/2011 7:39:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Other authors of piece above: Mary Ellen Harte is a biologist; John Harte is an ecologist >>>> Any coal state congresspeople who do not support funding for job retraining should be identified as obstructionists to their constituents. And coal executives should be protecting their shareholders by developing a plan to transition their companies from coal to clean energy, while they have the revenues to do so. Phasing out coal gradually will allow industrial transformation. Just as President Obama has stated that Congress must rise above partisanship for the good of the country, so, too, must industries recognize that they have similar obligations -- and ultimately, it is in their economic interests to do so. <<<<
64 posted on 07/21/2011 7:50:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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65 posted on 07/21/2011 3:34:09 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Puckster
And/or will they segue this “important” issue into a call for liberalization of the abortion process even more?

....and the handicapped, the elderly, the sick...

66 posted on 07/26/2011 2:03:44 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((((unite))))
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To: muawiyah
Most of the world would be much better off with fewer Leftwingtards around. They are so tiresome.

Of course, they will not be subect to their own doctrines of death. Just as they are with everything else.

67 posted on 07/26/2011 2:06:27 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((((unite))))
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Not too many people, but too many parasites...don’t breed em’ if ya can’t feed em’....


68 posted on 07/26/2011 2:08:53 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The next time some liberal tells you there are too many people on the planet. Tell them we should get all the people in the world together for one of those aerial group shots.

Ask them how many states in the USA such a group would cover.

Make sure you videotape their response when you tell them the answer.

69 posted on 07/26/2011 2:11:56 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

In the 70’s, TIME magazine told me that the only way to stop the “EVIL POPULATION BOMB!” was by allowing unrestricted abortions.

What do I have to allow THIS TIME for it to go away?

Death Camps?
Radical Berkeley/Chicago Socialist Dictatorship?
Carousel? (obscure Logan’s Run reference)


70 posted on 07/26/2011 2:12:37 PM PDT by tcrlaf (PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMISTS FOR OBAMA2012!)
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To: He Rides A White Horse

But....but, they’re only thinking about us, lest we suffer needlessly at the hands of this present creation.

They mean well.....don’t they?

What’s that saying about good intentions?????

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”

“Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them”

And the last:

“I made a speech by that title [A Time for Choosing] in 1964. I said, “We’ve been told increasingly that we must choose between left or right.” But we’re still using those terms — left or right. And I’ll repeat what I said then in ‘64. “There is no left or right. There’s only an up or down”: up to the ultimate in individual freedom, consistent with an orderly society — or down to the totalitarianism of the ant heap. And those today who, however good their intentions, tell us that we should trade freedom for security are on that downward path.”

Ronald Reagan


71 posted on 07/27/2011 12:19:11 AM PDT by Puckster
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“Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them”

I like the extension. Yes indeed.

72 posted on 07/28/2011 8:07:40 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((((unite))))
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To: He Rides A White Horse

I liked Reagan’s long quip on intentions also.


73 posted on 07/28/2011 8:53:18 PM PDT by Puckster
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It’s good. I’ll have to remember that one.


74 posted on 07/28/2011 9:06:03 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((((unite))))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Then why don’t all these morons at the LA Times and others just put their money with their mouths are and shoot themselves in the head?

Until they do they can just STFU!


75 posted on 07/28/2011 9:08:20 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'm done with political parties. The GOP is useless. Anarchy is perferable to this CRAP!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

It’s the same attitude that tells women their goals and dreams are more important than the life of their unexpected unborn child.

I’ve seen women rationalize - well....if they had gone through with the pregnancy, they never would have gotten that degree (really? never?), or never have been able to marry the man they eventually wound up with, and so on...

I’m always left wondering....that child certainly never got to do anything.


76 posted on 07/28/2011 9:17:13 PM PDT by Scotswife
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