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SheilaT

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3. I am now the first in line to get a copy when one of the four

Reply to Skarbrowe (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 29, 2014, 12:22 PM

Oct 2014

the library has is returned. I'm sorry to hear that it's depressing, but somehow I'm not surprised.

It's been my contention for several decades that the essential problem is that there are too many people on this planet, that a truly sustainable level is no more than a billion people, and probably more like 100 million. What it would take to reduce the population isn't very pretty. But if our overall numbers went low enough, quickly enough, there is a distant hope.

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I just bought Naomi Klein's new book "This Changes Everything" to read on the plane tomorrow [View all] arcane1 Sep 2014 OP

She was on Amy Goodman SheilaT Sep 2014 #1

I just finished it today. Skarbrowe Oct 2014 #2

I am now the first in line to get a copy when one of the four SheilaT Oct 2014 #3

Population control is also doomed. :( Skarbrowe Oct 2014 #4

The thing is, the population growth simply cannot continue over the long run. SheilaT Oct 2014 #5