It would be hard to find a better example of the self-loathing so characteristic of the Green movement today. Just what have humans done to get Julian's knickers in such a knot, I wonder? Looked after our own interests to the detriment of other species? Well, that's been going on since the beginning of time. Foxes do it, lions do it, mistletoe does it -- but as far as I know none of them take deliberate and active steps to ensure that the species they prey on don't die out. Other species don't have our population problems, to be sure: but that's because they starve, get sick, get eaten, or die of the wounds they acquire in the process of getting enough food to live another day. (Well, I DID cut my finger on a tomato slicer yesterday, but that hardly counts).

So what is it about our tremendous success that makes you so angry, Julian? Why are you so upset that we can feed, house, clothe and educate billions of others of our kind -- the only kind, as far as we know, that can read, write, reason and create beauty?

Just why do you hate people?

What an interesting thread.

I don't actually believe that the weight of the responses so far is typical of our population, but if it were...

What a sad bunch of no-hopers we have turned out to be!

I'd guess there is more optimism for the future in a small village in India, one that exists on subsistence farming and where the water supply comes from a single communal tap, than in the well-heeled rural townships of Australia. Let alone among the tut-tutting urban latte-sippers, doing their bit for the environment by putting off buying Lucy a car at the end of year twelve...

Sorry, I refuse to be browbeaten into depression by the guilt-ridden, lookit-me Greenie brigade. Especially those who are so smitten by the smug-bug, that they automatically recoil from such proposals as nuclear power, or coal-seam gas extraction, or genetically modified plants.

I'm willing to bet that if they had to choose between dying of hunger, and eating GM products, they would choose to eat. In which case, what right do they think they have to tell others less fortunate, that they are required to die, in line with the fads and fancies of Australian food fashionistas?

It's arrogance beyond imagination.

Pericles,

Why is it that it's always a choice between 'dying' and GM crops, pesticides, debt for small farmers, over-fertilisation and water depletion.
That village in India has most likely suffered more from multinational "Green Revolution" interference than it may have done without it. The landscape may be poisoned, eroded and degraded, the depleted water table may now not supply that single tap. Small farmers cannot access enough river water due to the multinational-owned sugar crop situated a little closer to one of India's thousands of dams.
That village, like many, has lost many of it's inhabitants to urban centres and hopelessness because they could no longer make a go of subsistence farming after the initial "success" of the Green Revolution. For many Indian peasants, suicide and hopelessness is now their lot....homo avarus has robed them of their tradition and their knowledge.

"The end is nigh" should be the title of this article.

And all the usual fearmongers and alarmists jump aboard the latest academic survival fear campaign.

Damn it's so cold ... where's global warming when you really need it?
Lol

Oh dear here we go again.

Another fear merchant preaching the end of the world. And it's all our fault. Maybe more and more money for research and maybe a new tax will reduce the effects upon the environment.

Give us a break.

This article is tantamount to an admission the fearmongering global warmists got it totally wrong!

I'd bet this bloke still is a closet warmist and a member of the warmist rump.

This article is as bad as some that have been written proclaiming the Clean Energy Future. I'm sure this academic has hordes of peer-reviewed articles all lined up ready to scare the crap out of our gulible idiots and our oldies and our kids ... again.

When will these dumbo's get off our case and our public teat and try producing something positive instead of windbagging on and on and on... again.

Squeers

the latin for "idiot savant"? is global warmist.

...And another “Homo” favoured by many..Homosexual