The overpopulation 'myth' is the real myth. We are populating the planet at an exponential rate, there is absolutely no debating that whatsoever. The agricultural revolution permitted a massive spike in population growth which has yet to decline, except in the "first world"...
Ultimatley yes, population will be an issue, even if we were to live in total balance with nature (many would argue if we did this it would never become an issue in the first place, that we would never populate to a dangerous extent). The earth can support 20 billion people who are living in harmony with it. Living in harmony entails not suppressing technology from developing freely, which instead has paved a skewed and thus parasitic evolutionary path.
In short, and as John and Yoko state (and as we at FS's have always claimed), its not the quantity of human beings thats an imperitive issue, its the quality of those human beings. Sure enough Alex Jonestard is trying to use Lennons comments to his agendas advantage, Lennon would likely laugh at the hypocritical phoniness of Jones and his army of insecure run of the mill infowhores who want nothing more than a tax cut and freedumb. The overpopulation argument is used to suppress growth within the third world, as "1st" world fertility rates (thanks to industrialization) have plummeted below the point of return in some cases... Just like the anti-nuclear/ liberal nonsense creates a stigma against using that which would benefit the third world (which isnt to say more adaptable technologies havent also been suppressed), while villifying countries who want to use it as terrorists.
So its not that we are overpopulating, its more that there is an attitude and a mindset that is overpopulating... All one has to do however is look to nature to see that alike the economy, human population CANNOT grow indefinetly, at least not while confined to this planet. The planet is going for broke in its creation of us, since the era of the dinosaurs Gaia has had to revisit the drawing board several times before building something that is capable of spreading its force throughout the cosmos, unfortunatley parasitic elements within the population will ensure that we never reach that potential, well... not us anyway...
Ultimatley yes, population will be an issue, even if we were to live in total balance with nature (many would argue if we did this it would never become an issue in the first place, that we would never populate to a dangerous extent). The earth can support 20 billion people who are living in harmony with it. Living in harmony entails not suppressing technology from developing freely, which instead has paved a skewed and thus parasitic evolutionary path.
In short, and as John and Yoko state (and as we at FS's have always claimed), its not the quantity of human beings thats an imperitive issue, its the quality of those human beings. Sure enough Alex Jonestard is trying to use Lennons comments to his agendas advantage, Lennon would likely laugh at the hypocritical phoniness of Jones and his army of insecure run of the mill infowhores who want nothing more than a tax cut and freedumb. The overpopulation argument is used to suppress growth within the third world, as "1st" world fertility rates (thanks to industrialization) have plummeted below the point of return in some cases... Just like the anti-nuclear/ liberal nonsense creates a stigma against using that which would benefit the third world (which isnt to say more adaptable technologies havent also been suppressed), while villifying countries who want to use it as terrorists.
So its not that we are overpopulating, its more that there is an attitude and a mindset that is overpopulating... All one has to do however is look to nature to see that alike the economy, human population CANNOT grow indefinetly, at least not while confined to this planet. The planet is going for broke in its creation of us, since the era of the dinosaurs Gaia has had to revisit the drawing board several times before building something that is capable of spreading its force throughout the cosmos, unfortunatley parasitic elements within the population will ensure that we never reach that potential, well... not us anyway...
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