The Sentinel

When Will the Recession End?

To Socialism cannot compete!

While technically true that the globe can support much more tha 6 billion people, it is practically NOT true. Your comment that most impoverishment and hunger globally is due to repressive regimes is also technically true but your dismissing of the assumption that the planet cannot support that number shows you have a quasi-utopian view that if we could just get rid of repressive regimes things would be much better and the world could support more people. True enough....just show me where in history there was a period of time when there wasn't a preponderance of repressive regimes.

Otherwise, you have to deal with the facts at hand, not what you wish.


On Nov 06 05:22 PM Socialism cannot compete! wrote:

> @perceptions_now: Out of a very lengthy, rambling comment containing
> much speculation not backed by facts, I need to pick on one lie in
> particular:
>
> "Now, at over 6 Billion people, we are starting to exhaust the earth’s
> capacity to support human species."
>
> Absolutely false. The reason so many are malnourished in the world
> has MUCH more to do with the political regime they "live" under,
> not the lack of capability to produce enough food. Most people are
> not aware that the main reason for the population boom in the last
> century is simply that lifespans saw a big increase due to unprecedented
> advances in medicine -- vaccines, antibiotics, organ transplants,
> etc. Things unheard of before the 20th century. We are not likely
> to continue increasing life expectancies by the margin that we did
> so in the last century. The UN predicts increases to continue through
> about 2040 (with the pace of increase slowing), and then begin a
> population decline. Not because of food shortages or the inability
> of the Earth to support more people...but because citizens of industrialized
> countries are having fewer children. They are in school longer and
> marry later, delaying the start of family life.
>
> If anything, we will find ourselves in a situation where we do not
> have ENOUGH people in younger generations. This is *already* the
> case in many European countries, which are giving tax credits...and
> even one-time lump sum payments to couples when they have a child!!
> We are currently in a situation in the U.S. where Social Security
> and Medicare are increasingly underfunded due to the swell of retirees
> (with the boomers just starting!) vs. the smaller base of workers
> paying in!!
>
> Paul Ehrlich and his radical anti-birth associates have long since
> been discredited. Move along.