Subject: Re: [Homestead] The latest meat eaters' dilemma
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:04:47 -0700
There are too many people on the
planet..unsustainable...of course, we all agree there, I think.
I'd have sworn that's what they were saying 30 years ago..
Paul Ehrlich started talking and writing about human overpopulation
and predicting subsequent famine and other disasters in the mid-
sixties. He persists today. His predictions proved overly dire. Which
is to say, he predicted massive starvation in the seventies and
eighties which of course did not occur. Later derided for being
overly pessimistic he said he had presented, not predictions, but
scenarios.
He may well have stretched the model, but he has served the useful
purpose of getting people thinking about what growing human
population will do to Earth. That agricultural advances have staved
off massive starvation does not hide the fact that homo sapiens is
destroying its habitat.