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echo: environ
to: ANDREW HOGE
from: PAUL MUEHLBAUER
date: 1996-08-16 00:55:00
subject: survival

AH> If someone can effectively and with sound judgement, logic and
AH> facts explain to me how we can contiue to overbreed,
AH> continuing to take all the resources this planet has at the
AH> expense and often extinction of other life forms (our brothers
AH> and sisters-like it or not, we all come from the same origin)
AH> I will be your student for life.
Ok, you've outlined a problem. :)
My problem with your message - what is the solution? You asked for some kind 
of action, but I'm unclear as to what you want done, exactly. 'Less humans on 
the planet,' obviously. :) But, how do we acheive that?
Humans come in 2 flavors -> 1. Low-negative growth, affluent, high-consuming 
humans, or  2. High growth, poor, low-consuming humans.
Now, how do you fix the problem? You can't reach the high growth humans until 
you educate them. And you can't educate them until you build roads, schools, 
mass media, etc. This, of course, turns them into high-consuming humans.
Often, I'm told, folks like us Americans are the root of all eco problems, 
because we are affluent, high-consuming humans. And as you now point out, 
continued human population growth (from the low-consuming humans) is also a 
problem.
Short of gunning a whole bunch of people down, I don't see a workable 
solution to this. But then, I'm not looking real hard, either! :)
I'd be interested in hearing what, exactly, you propose should be done about 
the problem. :)
(See, I just saw a tagline in another area that went like this: "Earth 98% 
full. Please delete unnecessary people." Comments like this scare me _at 
least_ as much as over population scares you!!! :)
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