As we used to say in Primary School, "ain't no prizes for second".

Then your primary school taught very bad grammar.

And they say the standards of education are declining.

The anti-pop articles are by far my favourite on OLO. No where on any other posts will you find the fascists, the flat earthers, misanthropes, anti-immigrationists, Stalinists and mysoginists all together. It's a psychological wonderland.

My dad used to call these people cranks and he was spot on. They're either single lonely men (or Sandra Kanck) - same thing, or they work in the eugenics (genetics?) departments of universities. They're great at working out the genetics of blue eyed boys but considerably less adroit at handling public policy issues such as population.

Population is declining in most western nations (and it has peaked in China and India). Contrary to some posts here, we have more food than we need to feed everyone now and into the future.

If you want to reply to this post anti-pops, would you please refrain from using your 'earth is a closed system - we're all doomed analogies'. They have been defeated time and time again

The Cheryl virus:
This specific brainpox is a chimeric virus that attacks the human brain. The pathogen that causes it:codenamed "Cheryl". It is a recombinant virus made from the nuclear polyhedrosis virus of a flea, the Gillard rhinovirus, and smallpox.

It starts like a common cold, but then it invades the nervous system. It spreads like the common cold: by contact with immigrants. It can be dried into powder and it can get into the air. An early symptom is a blistering process stuck in eternal peak hour traffic & the need to have babies in toilets.

It's neuroinvasive—that means it drives citizens insane with overcrowding, petty aruments and sub rosa racism whilst making trigubuffian oligarchs, media-men and property developers rich and pollutitians powerful. It congests & travels along the backroads to avoid the tolls and invades the free forums to plead for the removal of free speech and sensible population management. It replicates only in the brain for it is barren. The virus makes crystals in the brain cells that force you to see a slowing in all nation's population growth when in reality the 9 billion projected for 2050 has now been revised to nearly 10 billion.

It damages the brain stem of society, the areas that control emotion and violence and feeding. People start to feel petrol-transport will last forever in exponentially increasing populations and that there will always be an overabundance of food, water and free space. CherylBrainpox eventually causes people to attack themselves and to eat their own flesh. Caused by damage to a single gene, it results in a bizarre manifestation of aggression directed toward other people. The combined Cheryl& Gillard viruses knock out the gene for an enzyme named hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT), and that somehow leads to believing slavery is a rewarding form of reducing unemployment.

The virus engages in a massive burst of propaganda, immigration &baby bonuses. The last burst almost melts the human brain, triggering a wild change of behavior in the hours leading up to the death of the human race.

"CJ, that was a rather stupid and ignorant comment."

Hahahaha. Yes indeed Yabby. Just what we've come to expect from kindergarten-kid Morgan!

Oooow, isn't our Cheryl a might whacky!!

If she keeps that up, she'll be giving Morgan a run for his money!!

Thank goodness the number of abject loopers has declined in recent times and the population issue can now be generally discussed in all sorts of media and fora without the defamation and chronic bullsh!t factors hijacking or killing off the discussion.

Incidentally, Morgan has stated his agreement with me over the population issue on numerous occasions. But of course rather than express like-mindedness here, he just has to find something to pick at. What a sad soul!

[posting from luvly Brunswick Heads. You still here KK? I'm sitting in the video shop. Come on down and say hullo (:>)]

The pro-populate mob really are quite radical and brings out the looney on these threads.

If you want to undermine the sustainable population argument just mention abortion, euthanasia and Malthus or even Nazis to detract from the many valid argments made many times on OLO. Some people might even be suckered by these irrelevant diversions.

There is no hope really in rational argument, we have been down this path before. There are those that believe the environment will always provide no matter what and that resources are limitless, and the poor get poorer while populations continue to flourish, and that we in the West can continue the cycle of consumerism to the detriment of the rest of the world.

I am not sure of the psychological profile of these people as I am not a psychiatrist but it is fun watching them think the sky will fall in if we actually discuss the issue of population and the fact that some resources are finite and others are only renewable if they demand does not outstrip supply.

Perhaps it is a stick a head in the sand approach and hope it will all go away.