[Brian Kopp DPM]

ping

[GeronL]

there is no such thing as a UN expert, everything associated with the UN is a fraud... =o)

[txzman]

Quick - over there! It's the Global Warming Bomb! lol.

I want to be the first one to predict same story, different subject in about 5 more years. Byline will be "Al Gore Was All Wet".....

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Well, the population bomb may have fizzled, but the demographic bomb is ticking merrily away.

But you won't find any UN "expert" expressing any concern about that...

[dpwiener]

Why have only two children? Why not one? Why not none? What policymakers have discovered is they do not know how to get couples to put the brakes on fertility decline. They do not know how to stop couples from stopping having children.

The decline in birth rates is old, old news (at least to anyone who's been paying attention for the past several decades). Malthusian theorists believed that the population would inevitably expand geometrically, while resources could at most grow linearly (if indeed they weren't eventually exhausted). But it turns out that it is knowledge that expands geometrically, and the technological advances brought about by human knowledge and applied intelligence have vastly increased our effective resources. At the same time our greater wealth and standards of living and lifespans and health and leisure and education and other opportunities have resulted in a voluntary reduction in birth rates. So the Malthusian disaster scenario has gone Psssst.

If Mr. Ruse wants to increase birth rates, there's an easy formula for doing so: Destroy wealth and trade, suppress individual freedom, eliminate opportunity, substitute indoctrination for education, crush people's hope for a better future, and in general create a retrograde society in place of modern civilization. When poverty is pervasive and infant mortality is high and life expectancies are low, people may once again feel that they have to produce lots of children in hopes that at least some of them will survive and maybe even help support their parents in old age.

[RLK]

The population explosion hasn't exactly fizzed. Some of the things predicted have come true. AIDS and famine are wiping out the southern half of Africa. While there are political elements involved, the prevalence of disease and famine is a result of population density.

Mexico is strsangling on its own birth rate. Mexico needs to export 25,000,000 people per ten year period to stay even with its rate of deterioration.

China has solved its problem with imposed reproductive restriction and forced abortion. Were it not for that, China would have self-destructed.

[Maelstrom]

All animal populations without natural predators show a similar curve in raw numbers.

An exponential growth to a certain critical value and then a bend before a precipitous decline in numbers, sometimes leading to extinction (naturally), sometimes leading to a rebirth of the species.

That critical value isn't related to available resources.

[Dialup Llama]

>What U.N. population experts are now saying is that the fertility rate in a number of countries is substantially lower than thought.

The answer here is to stop listening to the UN.

[Grampa Dave]

This whole thing was just propaganda used by the Green Nazis to kill close to 100 million babies in their mothers's wombs.

The Elite Green enviral nazis, hate all humans except for themselves. So they pushed this bad science to justify their full blown hysterical support of abortion.

They are happy there are at least 30 million less Americans due to their abortion strategy. Then millions and millions more in the rest of the world.

Each aborted baby means that baby never grew up to be a human daring to be alive using oxygen, water, energy and food for survival.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"The U.N. Population Division, official statisticians for the U.N., hosted an expert meeting at U.N. headquarters a few weeks ago and announced their projections for population growth have been wrong. "

Hmm, what else might they be wrong about? Give these freaks no power. Take their toys away and make them go sit in the corner.