baird

An Unpleasant Comparison: Demographics and Deflation

All true from an economic point of view however the implications for environmental quality due to ever increasing numbers searching for the "good life" are sobering. And I'm not talking about the usual tree hugger issues of snail darters, etc but big time environmental degredation which will be painfully obvious to all of our children and future generations.


On Jul 09 01:52 PM DWStein wrote:

> This is a very important subject that only gets attention periodically.
> So, thank you for brining it up.
>
> Imigration policy is very, very important to the continued prosperity
> of our country. We need a comprehensive policy that deals both with
> security and population growth. We should be letting people emigrate
> to this contry, but only the people we want.
>
> Tired, hungy and poor is a wonderful policy, but it needs to be brought
> into the 21st century. We need to know who is coming through our
> borders, we need to get them into the system properly, and we need
> to fully enfranchise them. Let us also not kid ourselves. Let's
> be transparent and agree that people with real capital (educationaly
> and/or monitarily) should be given priority.
>
> There is nothing more dangerous, in the long term, than having a
> seperate society within a larger society. Large poplutions without
> a significant stake in the future of the broader society are inherantly
> unstable. Just look at Europe's struggles with their muslim population.
>
>
> As the boomers retire, we are going to need freesh blood, period.
>
>
> Any fraternaty/sorority alumni might recognize the phrase, "Give
> 'em a bid. We need the dues!"

Poisoning the Green Shoots

This incredible experiment on planet earth obviously has no precedent, we've had the pedal all the way down and now it's through the firewall. It ain't complicated folks there's way too many of us and that's growing quickly to what "final" number who knows. And everyone wants to live the "good life" not just the clueless in the developed countries. It's not complicated but of course we still don't get it, without question we're way beyond sustainability and far into defcon omega or whatever is the ultimate alert status. Very sad prognosis and worst is it didn't have to be.


On Jun 07 09:35 AM fran wrote:

> greed and excessive population growth do influence this earth greatly.
> huxley covered such a situation in his book-"brave new world". a
> model does exist to ameliorate the poison, but brings with it other
> ailments as tradeoffs[ SOMA, FEELIES, HATCHERIES, etc].
> come to think, we've almost socio-engineered our way there with little
> forethought. or is there more forethought/plan than we realize?
>
>
> could THE CLUB OF ROME still exist?