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Old 12-09-2010, 10:21 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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No surprise. Turner has been a long term proponent of population reduction. He is actually on record as claiming that a 95 percent reduction of current levels would be ideal. I say you and your family first Mr. Turner. Do your part, set the example.


“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
– Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
I would say that Turner is a bit taken in by Agenda 21 which is the real child of the UN. I think that they want to reduce the population of the US pretty near the number you mentioned.
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Old 12-09-2010, 10:54 PM
 
Location: Somewhere gray and damp, close to the West Coast
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Answers.com - How many acres of land does Earth have

Answer: 36,794,240,000 acres

That's well over thirty-six billion acres of land. If you generously declare 90% of that land to be not suitable for human habitation, you're still approaching 3.7 billion acres of land. Divide that among the estimated population of 6,886,600,000 people (United States Census Bureau), that comes out to be roughly 2 people per acre of land. I'm not using a calculator.

I'd take a half acre and be happy. Heck, I've lived on a quarter acre and it seemed like enough. Just doesn't seem that crowded to me.
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Old 12-09-2010, 11:14 PM
 
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No surprise. Turner has been a long term proponent of population reduction. He is actually on record as claiming that a 95 percent reduction of current levels would be ideal. I say you and your family first Mr. Turner. Do your part, set the example.


“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
– Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
As if Ted Turner needs to set anymore examples...

Turner's success-nearly a full 1/3 of his net worth-became a public gift in a single stroke, a $1 billion donation to the United Nations in 1998. The donation created the United Nations Foundation, a charity focused on aiding the world's most pressing global problems. And this was just the start: Turner went on to create the Turner Foundation, the Captain Planet Foundation (and cartoon!), the Turner Endangered Species Fund, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, to reduce the threat of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons worldwide. "I love this planet, it's worth saving" is the motto by which Turner makes his business and philanthropic decisions which have-quite tangibly-bettered the environment, human rights, women's rights, and civil society.
:: Ted Turner | Architect of Peace

Interesting how some on CD worship the rich and greedy so much that they will fight to the bitter end to defend the greed, but when a rich guy such as Turner gives back a thousandfold and actually works towards making this world a better place, he is demonozed. Boy, some people see things really ass backwards.

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Old 12-10-2010, 10:27 AM
 
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As if Ted Turner needs to set anymore examples...

Turner's success-nearly a full 1/3 of his net worth-became a public gift in a single stroke, a $1 billion donation to the United Nations in 1998. The donation created the United Nations Foundation, a charity focused on aiding the world's most pressing global problems. And this was just the start: Turner went on to create the Turner Foundation, the Captain Planet Foundation (and cartoon!), the Turner Endangered Species Fund, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, to reduce the threat of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons worldwide. "I love this planet, it's worth saving" is the motto by which Turner makes his business and philanthropic decisions which have-quite tangibly-bettered the environment, human rights, women's rights, and civil society.
:: Ted Turner | Architect of Peace

Interesting how some on CD worship the rich and greedy so much that they will fight to the bitter end to defend the greed, but when a rich guy such as Turner gives back a thousandfold and actually works towards making this world a better place, he is demonozed. Boy, some people see things really ass backwards.
There is a difference between a feller who worked his whole life and managed to have 10 million dollars all totaled and someone worth billions that would blow their nose with 10 mil that uses their money to decide who has the right to have children.
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Old 12-10-2010, 10:35 AM
 
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Answers.com - How many acres of land does Earth have

Answer: 36,794,240,000 acres

That's well over thirty-six billion acres of land. If you generously declare 90% of that land to be not suitable for human habitation, you're still approaching 3.7 billion acres of land. Divide that among the estimated population of 6,886,600,000 people (United States Census Bureau), that comes out to be roughly 2 people per acre of land. I'm not using a calculator.

I'd take a half acre and be happy. Heck, I've lived on a quarter acre and it seemed like enough. Just doesn't seem that crowded to me.
So, we have space for people to live.

Do we have food for them? Fresh water for them? Fuel for their electrical and transportation needs? Jobs for them? Infrastructure to support them?

I await your reply.
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Old 12-10-2010, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Somewhere gray and damp, close to the West Coast
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So, we have space for people to live.

Do we have food for them? Fresh water for them? Fuel for their electrical and transportation needs? Jobs for them? Infrastructure to support them?

I await your reply.
Well, I'm assuming that the population figure I cited includes only living people. Last time I checked, they weren't counting dead people on the census. Point is, they aren't dropping like flies so something's working.
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Old 12-10-2010, 11:40 AM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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No they are not dropping like flies....They are breeding like rabbits.

Check this out, World Population Clock - Worldometers
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Old 12-10-2010, 11:49 AM
 
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Poorer nations would do well to ENCOURAGE (not force!) family planning, and one child (2 at most), until they can get their colletcive houses in order and reduce poverty, and then have at it.

It's a fact nobody like to talk about, but poverty is something that will never go away until poorer people stop growing their numbers exponentially. The old reasons to have large families - agrarian economics - are not valid in most parts of the world.
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Old 12-10-2010, 11:54 AM
 
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There is a difference between a feller who worked his whole life and managed to have 10 million dollars all totaled and someone worth billions that would blow their nose with 10 mil that uses their money to decide who has the right to have children.
Turner is using his money to decide who should have children??? Please link me to that article...I'd love to read it.
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Old 12-10-2010, 12:01 PM
 
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Who wants to chip in to buy Turner a one way ticket to China? What an idiot.
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