Population Growth: unnatural, unnecessary, unsustainable

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Population growth is the expanding elephant in the living room of environmental and social decay. Today's biggest headlines, including climate change and oil wars, are driven by human numbers more than anything. Crowd size amplifies crowd behavior. Decades after "alarmist" predictions were partially delayed with technology, population growth and its champions are still plundering the foundations of life and calling it progress. More people demand more land and resources each day. Oil has perpetuated an illusion of plenty amongst widespread scarcity. Thomas Malthus, superficially discredited by growth pushers, was never lacking for logic. Biological limits have only been stretched temporarily by fossil fuels, with diminishing returns. In a finite world there is no escape from ourselves. Billions cannot be shipped to other planets to avoid the crush. If everyone had their priorities straight (survival first, luxuries second) the population problem would make daily headlines, rather than tangential issues like money and politics. Music: "Prophecy Theme"

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Uploaded: September 16th, 2007 @ 12:46 am
Author: acavideo

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Tags: capacity carrying ecology economic environment greed growth immigration oil overpopulation sprawl sustainability

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