$0 funding for State Wildlife Grants proposed in FY '11 Continuing Resolution

[Ken Strothkamp]

One of my favorite environmental groups is the Center for Biological 
Diversity, and they are anything but silent on overpopulation. check out 
their website (and condom program!).

Ken Strothkamp

On 2/17/2011 1:42 PM, Neil Jones wrote:
> On 17/02/2011 21:18, Roger Kuhlman wrote:
>> Why is it that only now that Obama wants to fully fund the Land and 
>> Water Conservation Fund? Something is fishy here methinks.
>>
>> Our country has a major problem with excessive spending and a huge 
>> national debt. The US can't keep on borrowing and spending. It has 
>> got to stop since this practice is unsustainable. Frightening facts: 
>> over $14 trillion of accumulated federal debt, $1.6 trillion federal 
>> deficit for FY2011, expected federal deficits of $1 trillion for the 
>> next few years, Unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, 
>> and government pensions $60+ trillion, unknown huge additional 
>> liabilities for Medicaid and Obama's new healthcare entitlements.
>>
>> I would like to know why concerned, major environmental and 
>> conservation organizations are not pushing to stop human population 
>> growth in America. Human overpopulation is one of the two most 
>> powerful drivers of environmental problems but these groups are 
>> virtually silent on the issue.
>>
>> Roger
> It is not the size of the population that is so much the problem but 
> the consumption per head of population. If everyone on Earth consumed 
> like
> the Americans it would take seven Earths to supply the resources.  
> Clearly it isn't sustainable.
>
> Neil Jones
> neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk
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