The only amusing thing about this followup statement is how closely it resembles the semi-non-apology Rush Limbaugh offered his listeners last year a week after he proposed that I kill myself if I really
think human population growth is bad for the planet.
Not exact matches
But I personally
think such a future would diminish us all, so I would like to see more people listen to Steve Salmony, Jack Alpert, and other voices in favor of slowing
human population growth now in a humane way.
What we need to be careful of is
thinking that a majority of our fellow
humans agree with us on such crucial issues as the need to slow or even reverse
population growth or the need to decrease our use of fossil fuels.
I'd also like to add that as a tree - hugger myself I
think it is a desperate shame that CAGW has displaced saner environmental problems that we could be dealing with namely around pollution, biodiversity loss, loss of habitats and everything else brought on by
human population growth
Their work can be seen as the latest installment of an old debate between people who perceive hard ecological limits to
human population and economic
growth, as these authors do, and people who
think innovation will ultimately save the day, as it has done so often in the past.