Dallas:

Ah, another of the typical redneck responses. "If you don't like it, then leave." Did you know that the Rockefeller Foundation (a very right wing think tank in the U.S.) recommended to the president of the U.S. over 10 years ago that they halt population growth there? How is that a "step to the left?" This has nothing to do with left or right, but everything to do with caring about future generations and trying to mitigate what some see as a coming disaster. And for that you criticize people viciously? What kind of person are you?

"No honesty or truth with these succulents,only publicly funded policy schemes dressing up fear to reduce human endeavour, scientific and technological advancement. "

Dallas, nowhere in this discussion has anyone on the side of population control suggested that we should abandon human endeavour, scientific and technological advancement. We have merely indicated that these measures are not going to be sufficiently effective in giving succour to the coming hordes that you lot are advocating. Once again, as have others before me, remind you that we live in a world of finite resources. Once we have used them up, that will be it and the human population will go the way of the dodo. God is not going to find a way.

David

Hi Dallas,

Your concern for "human endeavour, scientific and technological advancement" is enhanced by stabilisation, along with treasuring the wonders of the natural world.

My previous post tells you how. "......those billions being spent on pollution ie. real estate infrastructure.....could have been spent on education, health and emerging technologies for export ".

Cheers,

Ralph

Thank you Ralph Bennett,and may your children multiply!

I expect that Ralph's children have a greater understanding of mathematics than just multiplication. For example, there is the exponential growth function,and a lack of understanding of that function is haunting the human race right now.

Dallas, Cheryl et al.

For a simple (?) explanation of exponential growth function, go to

http://math.usask.ca/emr/examples/expgrtheg.html

David