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2019-11-07 Science & Technology

The Scientists Are Muttering About Population Control Again

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-07 02:04|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Fine. Sterilize all the people in the world’s sh*t holes immediately.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 02:58|| 2019-11-07 02:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Betcha the same "scientists" are all for unrestricted immigration & humanitarian aid

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-07 03:17|| 2019-11-07 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Bet implies chance. That's more of a fix.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 03:38|| 2019-11-07 03:38|| Front Page Top

#4 "A real gambler only bets on a sure thing" - Gordon R. Dickson (Lulungomeena)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-07 04:21|| 2019-11-07 04:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Keep pushing socialism & communism and population will begin to decline without much additional effort.

Posted by Airandee 2019-11-07 06:09|| 2019-11-07 06:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Tom Clancy wrote that book.

Billionaire leftist creates bio-weapon Ebola strain to kill almost everyone while he and his go to special hideout in the Amazon......Rainbow Six.

Posted by AlanC 2019-11-07 07:31|| 2019-11-07 07:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmm... so Global Grifters tell us we need to take in MRI this country tens of millions of additional peasants from Mexico & Central America because, per sages like NYT's Bret Stephens, of all that empty space he sees when looking down from 30,000 feet upon the flyover country.

But these same buffoons tell us there are too many people, making too many problems, as Phil Collins sang.

Not enough serfs. But too many people. Right.

It's all so very... confusing.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 07:41|| 2019-11-07 07:41|| Front Page Top

#8 "But, doc, I'm concerned!" Came the answer,
"Just let out your belt and your pants, sir.
Your burden is light...
Quick injection... All right?
You've got plenty of room for more cancer!"

Posted by Bigfoot Crereger4396 2019-11-07 08:01|| 2019-11-07 08:01|| Front Page Top

#9 "See you next April!"

Posted by Bigfoot Crereger4396 2019-11-07 08:02|| 2019-11-07 08:02|| Front Page Top

#10 I would be more impressed with their arguments if they all committed mass suicide a la Jonestown.

Usually people who say there are too many people mean there are too many other people.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-11-07 08:15|| 2019-11-07 08:15|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm okay with population control, as long as all of them go first.

Posted by Raj 2019-11-07 08:31|| 2019-11-07 08:31|| Front Page Top

#12 It's just them having angst over the artificially high numbers of people in cities due to the way incomes are taxed rather than land title.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-07 08:52|| 2019-11-07 08:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Sterilize all ~~the people in~~ the world’s sh*t holes immediately.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-07 09:53|| 2019-11-07 09:53|| Front Page Top

#14 AlanC, I thought that book was too far beyond reality when I first read it. Not so much now.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-11-07 10:02|| 2019-11-07 10:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Say what you want about Thanos, at least his method was random.

These people want to kill those who do not agree with them.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-11-07 10:36|| 2019-11-07 10:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Fine, as soon as these brave scientists lead the way by being first to step into the suicide booths, we'll consider it. Til then, they need to shut the hell up.

We'll even make it painless, flood the booth with N2, drop the corpse into refrigerated pod for transport to the organ banks. See, we're recycling!"

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-11-07 11:26|| 2019-11-07 11:26|| Front Page Top

#17 Until the people that push this bullshit kill themselves to show their dedication, I'll continue to ignore it.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-11-07 11:27|| 2019-11-07 11:27|| Front Page Top

#18 Exactly. The only reply worthy is "apres vous".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-07 11:30|| 2019-11-07 11:30|| Front Page Top

#19 Reminds me of Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book "The Population Bomb." It was the first "the sky is falling" book on population control that I recall. The book pushed birth control and abortion as a means of population control. Now, it seems like the recommended solutions are becoming crazier and crazier.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-07 11:32|| 2019-11-07 11:32|| Front Page Top

#20 ^ The Club of Rome effort in 1970 was the original global alarmist clownshow. IIRC they predicted the planet would run out of food in a decade or two.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 12:10|| 2019-11-07 12:10|| Front Page Top

#21 Getting rid of these 11,000 people would really give the earth a lot more time.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-07 12:11|| 2019-11-07 12:11|| Front Page Top

#22 Its the same with all of the socialism/communism/"green" bullshit. None of the "elites" REALLY want to do away with limousines, private airplanes, firearms, etc--they merely want to do away with OTHER people's access to those things. They'll never lead by example.

Posted by Crusader 2019-11-07 15:47|| 2019-11-07 15:47|| Front Page Top

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