http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/12/population.cosumption/

-- Crys (crysgeyse@hotmail.com), October 13, 1999

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"Save the World - Kill Yourself"

-- Y2KGardener (gardens@bigisland.net), October 13, 1999.

There are reasons for our wealth! No good excuse for selfish greed however.

"Americans, while making up only four percent of the world's population, operate one third of its automobiles"

(Isa 2:7 KJV) "Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots (today we call them cars, Websters: a vehicle moving on wheels, carriage, cart, wagon, chariot):"

-- Mark Hillyard (foster@inreach.com), October 13, 1999.

quit believing all that "globalist" and "socialist" crap they are feeding you and check out the facts for yourself and you will see you are being manipulated and much of what THEY are saying is lies or at best partial truths.

the whole issue of too many people in the world, using too many resources, and ruining the earth is all part of the globalist agenda to enact all kinds of laws (environmental, population control, etc) that will strip away rights of citizens; create class warfare; allow the govt to truly emesh themselves in every aspect of our lives; change the mindset of the general population so we BEGIN TO DEVALUE HUMAN LIFE AND ACCEPT EUTHANASIA, ABORTION AND OTHER REPULSIVE FORMS OF POPULATION CONTROL, and MORE. They would especially love to force third world countries to have to have abortions (lots of money to be made), forced sterilizations or birth control which are very much against their beliefs.

True we are to be good stewards of the earth but you could fit all the people of the earth into the state of texas and everyone could have a front and back yard. Secondly, WHO SAID WE ARE IRRESPONSIBLE WHEN WE HAVE MORE THAN ONE OR TWO KIDS AS LONG AS WE CAN PROVIDE FOR THEM. CHILDREN ARE TO BE A BLESSING NOT A CURSE (AS WAS INDICATED ABOUT THAT POOR LITTLE BABY FALSELY LABELED AS THE 6 BILLIONTH PERSON FROM A FORMER YUGOSLAVIAN COUNTRY -- YAH RIGHT --STRANGE COINCIDENCE)

Lastly, the US may use 25% of the worlds resources, but we provide over 25% of the GNP for the entire world and more. So we are taking care of our needs and not stripping the earth. Plus for crying out loud--we provide much of the tax base and funding for helping the rest of the world!!!!!!

Just think--the same rich and powerful folks that are spouting this garbage are also the same that are trying to create a global government, the same folks that are actually propagating what they are speaking against (the oil companies, the manufacturers, etc), and the same that will profit from us abiding by the laws they enact.

READ THE DOCUMENTS that are readily available and you will see that an important tenant of communist (and the coming global) governments is population control. Wonder why they are lying through their teeth on the "AIDS efforts" they are doing while they are letting most of Africa become infected and/or die? Helps to decrease the population to their unbelievable target goal of 500,000,000.

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), October 13, 1999.

TT, I think you're in a serious state of denial. First of all, you've got the cause and effect backwards. POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC? We'll be having all these intrusive laws BECAUSE we have too much population. Without the incredible population increases we've experienced in the last couple of hundred years, there would be no need for so many laws, particularly about the environment.

Putting all the people in the world into the state of Texas, while useful as an attention getter, has no bearing on the things that are really limiting the ability of our planet to support an ever increasing number of people. Space is not the problem. It's food, water and other resources, plus an inablility of the earth to "carry away" all the effluent created, especially in the amounts that "first world" nations are producing.

You say, " Wonder why they are lying through their teeth on the "AIDS efforts" they are doing while they are letting most of Africa become infected and/or die"

Who is "They"? I think, regardless of who you think "they" are, you are being paranoid. No one is "letting" all the people in Africa die of Aids, just as no one is "letting" you catch a cold this winter, or "letting" your child break his in an accident.

Al

-- Al K. Lloyd (all@ready.now), October 13, 1999.

I thought y2k was going to kill a few billion people

-- (modest@proposal.malthus), October 13, 1999.