Lower Mainland Sustainable Population Society
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"The good news is you won't have to drive so far to the beach."
Bennett
The Christian Science Monitor June 22, 2000

Global climate change can't be linked to population

On CBC Primetime recently(Apr 98) there was a piece on the tropical rain forest burning in Borneo, which of course destroys vegetation and produces huge amounts of greenhouse gases, which contribute to global climate change. Jungles only burn if they’ve been degraded, usually as in this case, by excessive logging. This logging results from the unlimited market for tropical woods because of today’s huge world population. Growing population leads to climate change in many other ways and this change could so change the weather that it could lead to human extinction, so in order to provide a sustainable future we must stop continued human population growth.

Are harsh realities needed to reduce the birth rate?

No. The Global direction, decided at the UN level is to just make more women work outside the home. To achieve this they will be facilitied to be more educated and more accepted into the corporate and governmental sectors.

What is the problem, everyone in North America could fit into an area the size of Texas?

This would not reduce their collective ecological footprint.

Canada has lots of open space?

It is used as a sink for polution from the existing population.

What are some signs that over population is a problem?

We must stop population growth to avoid increasing the problems of global climate change, reduction in food supply per person worldwide, looming shortage of fresh water and, of increased species extinction, all owing to human impact on the environment.

Immigration is not that relavent to over population

In a 1978 Sierra Club report to the US Congress: "US population growth is no longer due to above-replacement-level births to native-born women;...Today, nearly 75 percent of our growth derives from immigration and more importantly, births to immigrants, which swells the numbers of parents in the next generation". Many environmental and human rights groups now try to convince Americans that it was moral to advocate population stabilization in the earlier instance but immoral in the latter.

Last Update: May 6, 2001
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