A while ago a friend of mine and I spent some time discussing our ever-growing planet-killing population. We parted as perplexed as before, but he continued to mull the problem and came up with something to talk about—more a sort of “thought experiment” than a plan anyone could actually put into operation. Suppose, he said, that someone developed a highly deadly, highly contagious air-borne virus and was able by some means to spread it very rapidly throughout the world, reducing the human population to three or four billion. If a decimation of our population could be achieved by such means, would you endorse it? Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Population Control| Read More
No societal system can be sustainable without population limits. I assume you agree. Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Famine, Population Control| Read More
On 1/11/13 the national academy of sciences released a draft report on climate change that’s open to public comment for three months. This could be a good time for Ishmael.org to inform people about this. What I found interesting was there policy on agriculture. Chapter 6 page 228 line 1 specifically talks about efficiency in increasing agriculture production in climate change. How can it be that they do not see the danger of increasing food production. Is it greed? Or they just don’t know? Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Population Control| Read More
With nature having its way to create balance, why has Guam become imbalanced with now an overpopulation of snakes? Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Population Control| Read More
How can you be so cold-blooded as to oppose sending food to the starving peoples of Africa? Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Famine, Population Control| Read More
In the book Ishmael, when talking about population growth, Ishmael points out that one woman and a hundred men is going to mean just one baby a year, but one man and a hundred women is going to mean a hundred babies a year. By pointing this out, he seems to be blaming women for population growth. Categories: I Have a Question About the Books/the Characters|Tags: Ishmael, Population Control| Read More
I recently read about Peak Oil. The theory states that we will soon (within ten years) run out of cheap oil, which is the basic resource for everything in our modern society and most importantly, our modern agriculture. The result of the oil-induced collapse will be (literally) billions of deaths. What is your opinion on this? Is it too late to save the world now? Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject|Tags: Agriculture, Extinctions, Population Control| Read More
After reading My Ishmael, it has come to mind that there are a few questions about things that don’t make sense. In the history of our culture, we were told by Daniel that the ones deemed as the managers of the food decided to lock the food up. In this decision, they have abandoned the law that states that a tribe will do what is best for the tribe. What has made them do such a thing when this law has been tried, tested, and true for millions of years? Would they not realize their error and the detrimental effects this is causing the tribe? As well, after locking up the food, wouldn’t the tribe come together as a whole to extinguish these efforts for the good of the tribe? Those who would be hired as guards would obviously be only part of the community that they would need to convince that this is a good way to work things. How could they convince a whole tribe, albeit a large tribe, that locking up their food is a wonderful idea without any resistance or tribal community? Categories: I Have a Question On a Specific Subject, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Extinctions, Population Control| Read More
Do you have an opinion about genetically modified foods? Categories: Here's My Opinion; What's Yours?, I Have a Question On a Specific Subject, I'd Like Some Advice|Tags: Agriculture, Population Control, Technology| Read More
What biological mechanisms would allow humans to keep their populations at levels compatible with food supply? Categories: I Have a Bone to Pick with You!, I Need Some Clarification|Tags: Population Control| Read More