two child max, two billion tops

 Two child max, two billion tops!

human overpopulation atlas

Video about the Human Overpopulation Atlas by its author, Portuguese Ph. D. candidate Joao Abegao. This is a comprehensive discussion (in PDF form at present) of the literature on human overpopulation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJzp1gJ4GZo&fbclid=IwAR1T_2WqV4tofA_JGvF_-Ys6Lt0drsNAJvXTjyVFEylQe-SqWaB8j8Xl8Xc

prince harry: two child max

One of the few things Harry and Meghan have got right! Prince Harry must be channeling me. When asked by primatologist Jane Goodall for British Vogue how many children he and Meghan planned to have, he replied, 'Two, maximum,' for the sake of the planet.

A prince after my own heart. Of course, I can't claim to have influenced him on this, but it stands to reason that he must be a regular visitor to this blog to have come to this conclusion, right? I'm humbled.

your dreams will never be achieved

On a planet with almost eight billion human beings on it, chances are your dreams will never be achieved-- particularly if you consider yourself honest and well meaning. In a world where we have too many people chasing too few resources, it's the people with the sharpest elbows, the ones who skip to the front of the line, who will come out on top.

the 'caravan' and overpopulation

Of course the mainstream media would never admit to this, but a big reason why these people from Central America are heading toward the States is that their countries are overpopulated. I heard an interview with a young man from El Salvador in this 'caravan.' He was complaining that there weren't enough jobs in his country. No, the problem isn't that their aren't enough jobs; the problem is that there are too many people! These countries are overpopulated, but that's their problem, and it's a problem they should recognize and try to do something about. These countries are simply trying to export their surplus populations, but we have no ethical responsibility to accept them-- and we shouldn't.

population sanctions

US foreign aid to 'developing' nations should be conditional upon their creating some kind of population policy to bring their population growth under control and maybe even reversing it. We're already starting to see the results of this overpopulation in the attempt by 'economic migrants' to get the hell out of the third-world shitholes they live in and try to make it to the US or Europe. If these people turn out to be basically ineducable, we don't need them. Since the economies of these countries are based largely on subsistence agriculture (if not hunting and gathering), their populations should be reduced to a level that can support people in that kind of economy.

fossil fuels and population

If we're serious about cutting down on fossil fuel emissions-- and I'm not sure we are-- it seems to me there are only two ways to go about it:

1. Technological innovation in clean energy.

2. Lowering the human population so that, even if our individual emissions remain the same (or even go up slightly as nations develop), our total emissions will nonetheless go down.

The IPCC tells us we need to cut greenhouse emissions 50% by 2050, a very tall order indeed. The human population of this planet has tripled in my lifetime. Ergo, if the human population had simply remained stable over this time, our greenhouse emissions would be roughly a third of what they are today. Problem solved.

We shouldn't put all our eggs in the basket of clean energy. Lowering the human population substantially should also be a primary goal.