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So many of the responses on this thread are the reflex regurgitations of the uninformed.
If you really want to help, buy acreage and maintain/restore it. Fragmentation of contiguous habitat range is as bad as degradation of habitat.
The minor injuries caused by Man's pollution, "plastic" and fossil fuel use are easily tolerated by Mother Nature if we still allow her space enough to carry on.
BTW_ there is no "over-population problem." Allowing 8 sq ft/person, there's room enough in Lake Superior for 12 Billion people to all tread water at the same time. We produce enough food every yr to feed everyone and still waste 40% of the food. Water covers 70% of the planet and we know how to desalinize it cheaply. I'm still waiting for someone to document a natural resource that we're in danger of depleting in the next 500 yrs.
How do you end such an intelligent post with such an ill-informed opinion? Fragmentation and loss of habitat is perhaps the most significant consequence of overpopulation.
It has been my experience that those who argue for depopulation as the FIRST step are just poorly hiding their greed. Oh, hey, half the people now WE cab have twice as much as stuff.
Let's start small, quite a few ideas many of you have mentioned that are very good.
- Phase out "single-use" plastic items for general retail. Keep it for medical profeesionals and laboratories.
- Start using more solar power (Big Oil is opposed).
- Reduce the amount of cars made, drastically reduces resource usage and, there are a lot of people that don't need to be drivers anway (Car industries and ALL Supporting industries oppose).
- Eliminate all governmental welfare incentives for more than 4 children, reduced for 3, normal for 1 or 2 (barring tragic cases where some mom loses her husband and 3 daughters in a crash or something crazy like that)
- Government is actually right about this next one; get rid of all microbead mixture products. They really screw with plumbing too.
- Repurpose old buildings.
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