the extremists

[Chris J. Durden]

Yes - but it is the appropriate place to remind and be reminded of the
primary cause of habitat loss - if we are to discuss habitat loss at all.
My own feeling is that if one is having more than one, permission should
first be obtained from a childless adult. Any child  has a right to be
really wanted! Besides there is a tradition of interest by lepidopterists
in human population issues that dates back more than fourty years, almost
as long as entomologists have been interested in human sex and sexuality.
...........Chris Durden
You know it is winter and the butterflies are not flying when the subjects
on this list vere towards politics, religion and sex! Just wait for those
Orange Tips to show.
 
At 08:17 AM 1/24/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>This is the Wrong List to discuss population control. We all know it's
>necessary, I imagine we hope that everybody will take individual action
>and that therefore governments will not take it over, and we're here to
>talk about bugs, worry about bugs, consider how to treat the planet in
>order to make bugs happy ...
>and hope that as we create a pleasant world for butterflies, the human
>population will happily reduce itself; no plagues, poisons, famine and
>war called for. A successful organism is one that has grandchildren. If
>you are sure that, with an investment in two or three children, you will
>have grandchildren, then you're likely to stop at that.
>If, on the other hand, your children are dying all around you, a certain
>hysterical philoprogenitiveness is to be expected.
>There it is then, and the leps list, as I say, recognizes the situation
>... but this not the place to figure it out. There are lots of lists ...
>Yes, it's babies, not bulldozers, that are taking the wild lands and
>requiring all those products. But babies don't make a good enemy.
>Speaking as the Department of Symbolism, I'd stick with the bulldozers,
>Big Business, and similar scary stuff.
>Anne Kilmer
>South Florida
 
 
 
 
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