Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!zrm From: zrm@mit-eddie.UUCP (Zigurd R. Mednieks) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: the defeathering of Malthus Message-ID: <1246@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 20:34:45 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1246 Posted: Tue Feb 7 20:34:45 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 01:31:46 EST References: <2084@watarts.UUCP> <674@dciem.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 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