2 thoughts on “Slate’s Brendan I. Koerner On Colbert Report”
I know I shouldn’t take this seriously but…”You’re driving down the highway…”
So there’s the problem. Not A/C or Windows – it’s the fact that you’re driving.
Environmentalism is really so easy – as a rule of thumb just do and use less of everything – it’s only made complex because companies and politicians *want it to be complex*. Confusion prevents action and means nothing will change – that’s what the system wants.
Will SLATE or Mr. Stephen Colbert ever discuss the global challenge posed by the human overpopulation of Earth with the kind of concentrated and sustained attention this looming threat to humanity deserves?
The widely shared and consensually-validated belief in the overall decline in absolute global human population numbers in our time, leading to population stabilization worldwide in 2050, is simply and straightforwardly a specious, inadequate product of preternatural thought as well as a colossal misperception. Many too many powerbrokers inside and outside the manmade global political economy have actively supported the unrealistic belief in population stabilization because it has proven to be politically convenient, economically expedient and supportive of their selfish interests.
According to new, unwelcome, unchallenged and apparently unforeseen scientific evidence of the human overpopulation of Earth, we can understand the growth or decline of the population numbers of the human species primarily as a function of global food supply. This means that human population dynamics of the human species is essentially common to, not different from, the population dynamics of other species. From a global or species perspective, more food equals more people; less food equals less people; and, in any case, no food equals no people.
Please consider this request. Could someone at SLATE or Stephen Colbert ask top-rank scientists to carefully and skillfully examine the emerging science of human population dynamics and report their findings?
I know I shouldn’t take this seriously but…”You’re driving down the highway…”
So there’s the problem. Not A/C or Windows – it’s the fact that you’re driving.
Environmentalism is really so easy – as a rule of thumb just do and use less of everything – it’s only made complex because companies and politicians *want it to be complex*. Confusion prevents action and means nothing will change – that’s what the system wants.
Will SLATE or Mr. Stephen Colbert ever discuss the global challenge posed by the human overpopulation of Earth with the kind of concentrated and sustained attention this looming threat to humanity deserves?
The widely shared and consensually-validated belief in the overall decline in absolute global human population numbers in our time, leading to population stabilization worldwide in 2050, is simply and straightforwardly a specious, inadequate product of preternatural thought as well as a colossal misperception. Many too many powerbrokers inside and outside the manmade global political economy have actively supported the unrealistic belief in population stabilization because it has proven to be politically convenient, economically expedient and supportive of their selfish interests.
According to new, unwelcome, unchallenged and apparently unforeseen scientific evidence of the human overpopulation of Earth, we can understand the growth or decline of the population numbers of the human species primarily as a function of global food supply. This means that human population dynamics of the human species is essentially common to, not different from, the population dynamics of other species. From a global or species perspective, more food equals more people; less food equals less people; and, in any case, no food equals no people.
Please consider this request. Could someone at SLATE or Stephen Colbert ask top-rank scientists to carefully and skillfully examine the emerging science of human population dynamics and report their findings?
Sincerely,
Steve
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population, established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php