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Originally Posted by genrex
The population keeps growing, and already the demand for natural resources is too much. 40 years ago you could smell the orange groves in the San Fernando Valley; now they are all gone, replaced by tracts of houses and strip malls. We have huge landfills of toxic garbage that will soon reach their limit and have to be "capped" to hopefully prevent the escape of cancer-causing dioxins and etc. Already people are having trouble finding clean drinking water. If we can't agree that this is a problem, then we can't agree on anything. The rich get richer and the poor have more children. As Molly Ivins used to say, "And so it goes..."
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population growth would not be a problem if we did not hamper our progress with religion, dogma, and xenophobia.
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." - JFK