Thanks for this post and thanks too for the others you have posted here on S&M of late. All interesting, lively topics.
As someone who doesn't believe in the overpopulation theory, rather the corrupt, malign and stupid culture and government theory, it's easy to laugh at these dribblers.David Suzuki is another world class hypocrite. I'd take him more seriously if he didn't have five children, and spend so much time flying all over the world to lecture us about carbon dioxide reduction. but then again for most of these types it's do as I say, not as I do. When they talk about population reduction it is about others, not them.
It doesn't surprise me to see Paul Ehrlich's name pop up. A monumental fail with his book "The Population Bomb" where he predicted widespread deaths worldwide from famine but said that we must "harden our hearts" as that was just nature's way of sorting things out, which says more about him than anything else.Turned out he was as wrong as can be, with India becoming a net food exporter not long after that prediction. I wonder why anyone takes him seriously especially after he famously lost that bet on resource scarcity with Julian Simon. He has since spent his time trying to somehow suggest that his warnings though proved wrong somehow averted the disaster by alerting everyone to the "problem", instead of humbly admitting that he got it so wrong. Another world class dribbler. There seems to be a whole class of people out there who want to work out their megalomania on a world wide scale.That would be a great research project to find out why anyone takes these types seriously after being shown to be either such hypocrites or wrong in their predictions or both. They seem like the green version of televangelists.
