Words don't mean much. Action counts. We humans like to pretend we're hot stuff, the children of God. But actions speak loudly and clearly as to who we really are.
Click the post title to go to an article describing the garbage dump our rivers have become for toxic pollutants that are evidence of our disdain for even our own existence, let alone the existence of others. Not even a dog craps in his own yard.
We can do so much better.
We have to stop killing one another. Killing one another, whether inflamed with the chest pounding righteousness of religious war or for convenience or passion, is wrong. Do we want to continue down the path we are on, which is the path to total devastation, self-wrought? We're marching that path eagerly. Some people just love marching it and decry anyone who questions.
We have to stop overpopulating the earth with humans. This should not be a touchy subject. Churches make it a religious subject, which I don't even come close to understanding. Overpopulation kills living people. I figure churches who promote reproduction, like Mormons and Catholics (I have dubbed these "the breeder religions") are just promoting this to create lots of new little church members. Because if morality were the consideration, even these two notorious breeder religions would be promoting birth control.
And, we have to stop crapping in our rivers. We need clean water to drink and clean air to breathe. These truths are self-evident to all but the really really stupid and to the really really greedy.
Well, that's my sermon for the night. Going to bed.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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"We humans like to pretend we're hot stuff, the children of God."
ReplyDeleteYou and me less so than a lot of people, I'll wager.
"Not even a dog craps in his own yard."
Hey, you learned that from my blog!
"I figure churches who promote reproduction...are just promoting this to create lots of new little church members."
Yeah, me too. If you can convert people to be Mormons and Catholics, then, by god, breed them at home.
Now that's the sort of sermon I'd be willing to hear.
ReplyDeleteRampant population growth threatens our economy and quality of life. I'm not talking just about the obvious problems that we see in the news - growing dependence on foreign oil, carbon emissions, soaring commodity prices, environmental degradation, etc. I'm talking about the effect upon rising unemployment and poverty in America.
ReplyDeleteI should introduce myself. I am the author of a book titled "Five Short Blasts: A New Economic Theory Exposes The Fatal Flaw in Globalization and Its Consequences for America." To make a long story short, my theory is that, as population density rises beyond some optimum level, per capita consumption of products begins to decline out of the need to conserve space. People who live in crowded conditions simply don’t have enough space to use and store many products. This declining per capita consumption, in the face of rising productivity (per capita output, which always rises), inevitably yields rising unemployment and poverty.
This theory has huge implications for U.S. policy toward population management. Our policies that encourage high rates of population growth are rooted in the belief of economists that population growth is a good thing, fueling economic growth. Through most of human history, the interests of the common good and business (corporations) were both well-served by continuing population growth. For the common good, we needed more workers to man our factories, producing the goods needed for a high standard of living. This population growth translated into sales volume growth for corporations. Both were happy.
But, once an optimum population density is breached, their interests diverge. It is in the best interest of the common good to stabilize the population, avoiding an erosion of our quality of life through high unemployment and poverty. However, it is still in the interest of corporations to fuel population growth because, even though per capita consumption goes into decline, total consumption still increases. We now find ourselves in the position of having corporations and economists influencing public policy in a direction that is not in the best interest of the common good.
The U.N. ranks the U.S. with eight third world countries - India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ethiopia and China - as accounting for fully half of the world’s population growth by 2050.
If you’re interested in learning more about this important new economic theory, I invite you to visit either of my web sites at OpenWindowPublishingCo.com or PeteMurphy.wordpress.com where you can read the preface, join in my blog discussion and, of course, purchase the book if you like. (It's also available at Amazon.com.)
Please forgive the somewhat spammish nature of the previous paragraph. I just don't know how else to inject this new perspective into the overpopulation debate without drawing attention to the book that explains the theory.
Pete Murphy
Author, "Five Short Blasts"