Ted MacCready on Population Growth

Excerpt from a talk at TED 2003
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/176

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• population
• Ted
• MacCready

[776281]

Don't use contraception to control the words population, let mass starvation do it.

One way or another balance will be restored, natures answer is the least pleasant way.

[CorollaKing]

Well you have to improve education and health and I think the population goes down right? A mass holocaust in the future by elites is very real to control population.

[Ryzler13]

Some idiot chef here in this country (ashamed to name it) is on a commercial asking for funding to help stop the asians eating cats and dogs but he happily slices and garnishes a steak for you.

Whats the difference.

Dont say pets and livestock are different all animals right.

Also you (buy on commercial) F$%^ing idiot think of the BS products for pets that cause more landfill waste and crap that we have. F#%ING SELL OUT.

[esther19741974]

During a speech to the Texas Academy of Science in March 2006, biologist Dr. Eric R. Pianka advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the world’s population through the airborne ebola virus. The reaction from scores of top scientists and professors in attendance was not one of shock or revulsion – they stood and applauded Pianka’s call for mass genocide.

[cmcdonough2]

Currently the 6billion people on earth can share Texas with 1000 sqft each. So what in 100 years we share Texas x2. This is sad. do the math yourself.

[controlpopulation]

great video.

[mgilbo1]

dont listen to pronatalist, he/she consistently argues that the planet earth will not be a happy place until every square foot of space is taken up by a person. Its obvious religion has fractured he/his skull in many places is isn't thinking logically.

[pronatalist]

To ShalomYal:

Who's talking of getting rid of life? The anti-people population phobics? God intended that life, especially human life, to be-come ABUNDANT.

Read the part in the new book, "Climate Confusion" by Roy Spencer, about the Climate Modelers Versus the Meteorologists, pages 86-87. The latter is more inclined to view the climate (or nature?) as self-regulating, not trying to force nature into simplistic flawed "models" and then having over-arrogance and over-confidence in flimsy models.

[ShalomYal]

try again on the bible - yes it says that we have dominion over the earth but then it says to keep/guard nature. If you could read hebrew then you would realize that this is the same word/language that is used to describe the keeping of sabath/shabbat

[ShalomYal]

A balance has nothing to do with equal #'s --- it has to do with not causing mass extinction of the earth's species. (and God saw all that he created and God said it was very good!)

You also don't seem to understand that we can not survive on a planet that is void of life. Nature does 100's of billions of dollars worth of services for free - we would go bankrupt if we try to reproduce natures services. (go learn about this)

[gurujohnie]

Global elete fund our schools to push this crap. Tax people who breath and we need to kill everyone to save the world crap. You don't see this guy killing off his family to save the world. Like Ted Turner who had 5 kids and wants everyone else to have one or no kids. These people are crazy do the research and find the truth. It is about tax and population control.