January 22, 2013

Good call - you first!

Talk about someone who has overtayed their welcome -- from the UK Telegraph:
David Attenborough - Humans are plague on Earth
The television presenter said that humans are threatening their own existence and that of other species by using up the world’s resources.

He said the only way to save the planet from famine and species extinction is to limit human population growth.

“We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now,” he told the Radio Times.
This is just the sort of Malthusian codswallop that has never ever been proven right but has cost the world no end of problems. More:
“We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves — and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s going to get worse and worse.”
No you fscking moron -- the Ethiopians could be exporting food if they had the energy to pump water and the sanitation to keep healthy. Any "aid" that goes to them gets siphoned off by the oligarchs in power and nothing goes to the people who need it and yet, we nod our heads and cut their "dear leaders" a bigger check in the sincere hope that the "dear leaders" will not take it all. They do and ask for an even bigger check. As for overpopulation, you could move the entire population of Earth into the state of Texas and have a population density one third that of New York's borough of Manhattan. Posted by DaveH at January 22, 2013 1:29 PM
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