They are concerned about overpopulation, which, to them, means only more mouths to feed.
The real problem is not overpopulation per se, but, more fundamentally, the lack of freedom.
In this first installment of an occasional series, I want to consider (briefly) overpopulation and resource exhaustion.
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Did you hear the joke about the father of four telling everybody that overpopulation is killing the planet?
Overpopulation, Brown says, is an issue so profound that all of us need to ask what should be done.
Yeah, this is definitely a way of solving the problem of overpopulation.
Senator Boxer, Reid will doom this country to unimaginable overpopulation, with further expenditures whereas 15 million legal workers cannot find a job.
Some researchers have asserted that traffic is inevitable, due to too many cars on the road, overpopulation, and lack of adequate infrastructure.
Due to the overpopulation in urban areas, African governments will not be in a position to possibly provide an efficient housing system.
Scholars have suggested, among other reasons, disease, political upheaval, overpopulation or drought.
With billions of biotechnology research dollars and drug profits involved, was the story about epigenetics hidden from public view for commercial gain and concerns about overpopulation?
Darned impressive list, too: There are terrorist-sponsored epidemics and dirty bombs, of course, plus AIDS, overpopulation, global warming and computers so talented that they ctrl-alt-delete their creators.
By keeping numbers down, they avoid overpopulation around coral reefs.
It is thought the outbreak was directly linked to Sierra Leone's past conflict, which caused a massive migration from rural to urban areas, resulting in overpopulation and poor sanitation.
Firstly, the idea that there was a need to thin the herd of elephants because of an overpopulation problem sounds like what a hunting operator would say, but it is not the truth.
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To avoid overpopulation, everyone has an electronic digital countdown tattooed on their arm, and when the clock runs out, the body shuts down (the rich, however, can buy extra time from the poor).
Dozens of years ago Hong Kong was one of the poorest pieces of real estate on earth, with a miserable per capita income, suffering "overpopulation" and utterly lacking in natural resources (it even has to import water).
More than 200 years ago, when the planet was inhabited by less than one-sixth the population it supports today, the pessimistic preacher posited the idea that Earth's big problem was too many people, that overpopulation made prosperity impossible.
In my lifetime there have been a large number of predicted nutritional apocalypses, caused by overpopulation, lack of biological diversity in our food supply, genetic engineering run amok, acid rain, too little ozone, too much ozone and, finally, global warming.
Meanwhile, as a mother polar bear somewhere wept over the desperate fate of her cubs (overpopulation), and despite the past 17 years of flat global temperatures, thousands of Keystone XL opponents braving near-freezing temperatures and biting winds, protested in front of White House gates.
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Unlike the original, which was set in the future both on Earth and on a Mars that's either real or a dream, the new one takes place entirely on an Earth that's staggering under the load of overpopulation and really bad weather "Blade Runner" meets Malthus.
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