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From: zrm@mit-eddie.UUCP (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: the defeathering of Malthus
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 20:34:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 20:34:45 1984
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Starvation isn't the only issue when deciding if the world is
overpopulated. People pollute, destroy animal habitats, start wars when
things get bad, use up irreplacable resources, and generally contribute
to the wear and tear on the planet. The planet may be "resilien," as
word think-tank types are fond of saying, but it may also snap back if
we stretch it.

Besides, who says we have the right to have wall too wall people? If
morality has any uuse it is to tell us to stop a good long ways before
we drown in our own feces. What good would a million Beethovens be if
none of them had woods to walk iin to gather inspiration?

I vote Republican. I do not belong to the Sierra Club. And I think Ralph
Nader should be given an unsafe amount of speed and made to play
Tempest. I alsso think that if we continue to breed, feed, rot, and
excrete to the extent that we have, we won't need to nuke ourselves to
destroy civilization.

RWR in '84!
-Zig