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

[Roger Kuhlman]

Well what is their position of stopping illegal immigration, amnesty for illegal aliens, and reducing the excessively high levels of legal immigration. Just saying you are concerned about population growth but not be willing to take any concrete, effective steps to first slow, then stop  and finally reduce population levels by natural means to long-term ecologically sustainable levels is nothing but an empty gesture.
 
Roger

> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:27:23 -0800
> From: kgs at lclark.edu
> To: neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk
> CC: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Re: $0 funding for State Wildlife Grants proposed in FY '11 Continuing Resolution
>
> 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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