[GonzoGOP]

One thing these Malthusians always miss is that population in industrialized nations is not exponential. In fact in many industrialized nations population is in decline except for immigration. If you want to save the world the best thing you could do would be to eliminate the dictatorships and thugs and get the place industrialized as quickly as possible. Not gonna happen because the Malthusians like the third world just the way it is.

Only a rich nation can afford to be environmentally conscious. A rich nation can set aside land simply for the beauty of it. Poor nations much use every resource available. Rich people with full bellies can worry about saving endangered species, poor starving people put them into the stew pot. Destroy the economies and the ecology goes right along with it. But the greens and the socialists refuse to see it.

[Red Badger]

People in wealthy industrialized nations have leisure time to pursue personal interests and self-fulfillment.

People in poor countries do not have such luxuries, so the have sex...............

[ghost of nixon]

Rich people with full bellies can worry about saving endangered species, poor starving people put them into the stew pot.

LOL! I've seen this personally in the third world - most critters are tasty if you are starving.