Op-Ed Contributor
Overpopulation Is Not the Problem
By ERLE C. ELLISPublished: September 13, 2013 New Your Times
The op-ed above just was presented to me to demonstrate there are individuals out there that don't believe over-population is an issue in today's world. I am always interested in this topic and every once in awhile someone will kick this round. Admittedly, I am always alarmed by this thinking even though I have come to realize the topic is rather moot in that no one is really even talking about it because there seems to be no solution for it. The population just keeps going up by some 75-80 million a year. That would be equal to the US population every 4 years!
While 90% or so of futurist, most noticeably Albert Bartlett physicist from Colorado University, feel that every single major issue we have is directly related to too many people, there are still a few spouting the Julian Simon diatribe that man can solve everything because we are so smart. Bartlett's most famous statement is, “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
The new York times piece by Ellis is largely a faith based statement where he pontificates that our great social systems and always-advancing-technology allows us to live outside the confines of other creatures behavior. In other words, we are superior to all other animals and therefor we will prevail. It seems to have absolutely no concern for other living things and appears to believe that the entire earth can be occupied by humans.
Ellis says, "We transform ecosystems to sustain ourselves. This is what we do and have always done. Our planet’s human-carrying capacity emerges from the capabilities of our social systems and our technologies more than from any environmental limits." That is his BIG statement. Yes, we do transform our ecosystem! Jesus Christ man we do transform the ecosystem and that doesn't bother you? It is called destroying it. Basically, he is saying because we do it it is right. We are God, screw the rest of the planet.
If I didn't know better, I say this guy works for the Koch brothers. He sure is hell is a shill for the corporate state. Grow, grow, grow, develop, develop develop.
Sweet Jesus give me a break. The really sad part of the article is that it appears to be going uncontested. These jack-asses have taken over the narrative, a narrative that should not even be spoken--fortunately in most of Europe it is not, nor is it in the intellectual class but it runs wild in the political class, and in the world of economics.
"The only people who believe we can have never-ending exponential growth in a finite world is the complete mad man and an economist."
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