Please take a look at the scientific research of Dr. Jack Alpert at wwww.skil.org or email him at alpert@skil.org. He breaks through a great deal of confusion about the science of absolute global human population numbers. His work is an antitdote to the ubiquitous examples of faulty reasoning that follow.

Reasons What You Think Is Right Is Wrong>>>OR possible excuses for not understanding the natural dynamics of human population numbers.

http://www.healthbolt.net/2007/02/14/26-reasons-what-you-think-is-right-is-wrong/

Always,

Steve

Thanks so much for your comments. I am confident we are in complete agreement; however, I want to be clear about something. Speaking personally, please note that I am not for the extinction of any species. The preservation of the species of Earth and the sensible fulfillment of the meaning of the word, stewardship, by human beings is what I have in mind.

If individuals choose freely not to have children because of an appreciation of the situation we are discussing here, then I would not call the determination not to bear a child an exercise in voluntary extinction. Given the scale and growth rate of absolute global human population numbers, that choice is a step toward human species preservation, I believe. Would you not agree that human beings can reduce their absolute numbers without extirpating the human species?

As members of our species share broadly an understanding of the distinctly human-driven predicament we are observing, people will most definitely do the right thing. By that I mean simply and plainly that we acknowledge and accept limits to the currently UNBRIDLED growth of global consumption, production and propagation activities of the human species.

We are not talking here only about the necessity for reducing human numbers worldwide. We are urgently asking human beings everywhere who are conspicuously consuming more than a fair share of resources to consume less, thereby reducing the size of the human footprint. We are also calling upon the powerbrokers of the world economy to begin immediately to progressively limit the INCREASES of global production activities. In so doing, industries will end the drill of dissipating Earth’s store of natural resources and will radically change the daily practices of emitting thousands of tons of pollutants now compromising the integrity of frangilble ecosystem services.

The members of the human community, from the rich and powerful to the poor and weak, have meaningful challenges to consider and good work to do.

With every good wish to Lindsay, Greg Mikkelson and friends everywhere on this day after the birthday of one of our greatest exemplars, Rachel Carson,

Steve

Door number three is even less likely, but I think it’s the best: voluntary extinction of our species through non-breeding. We’re causing so many other species to go extinct that it’s only fair we go as well. Our phase-out will allow all other life a chance to survive, unlike the second chioce Stever has presented.

Each time we choose to not create another of ourselves we preserve wildlife habitat. If we live in the US, we avoid converting 24 acres of biologically active land to human habitat for 75 years. No small contribution to diversity. Our footprints may be determined at: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=national_footprints

If there were fewer of us each day rather than more, sharing equally would be much easier.

For a better world,
Les U. Knight

What a wonderful subject, even though it is remarkably difficult and daunting to discuss BECAUSE the current scale and growth rate of the population of the human species indicates the human species leaves less and less living space and resources for the survival of other species surrounding us in this wondrous world that God has blessed human beings to inhabit with them.

Let me suggest something simple here: EITHER the human species discovers a ‘law’ of nature that people will learn to share resources with one another and other species OR the human species risks mass species extinction, including human extinction, even within the 21st century.

Sincerely,

Steve