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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Donovan! I have a solution to this problem of
overpopulation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Post-natal abortion! A government agency,
staffed by Bush appointees, could canvass the population for nonvital citizens
who would then be dispensed with.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's HOPE!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Solving the world's problems,
-Tony</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nils_peterson@wsu.edu
href="mailto:nils_peterson@wsu.edu">Nils Peterson</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:18
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Inconvenient
Truth -- What WE REALLY HAVE TO DO</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I don't think eating lettuce and carrot sticks is going to save
the environment, no matter how many you eat and everyone else. The only way to
do it is to raise the price of gasoline and reduce the human population. If
the world raises the price of gasoline to $7.50 a gallon over the next 5 years
it would force everyone economically to switch to an alternative form of fuel
that would be better on the Earth, maybe even reverse the effects.<BR><BR>The
second, is to maintain the human population. The Earth cannot sustain 12
billion people for very long, it just cannot--even if they just eat tofu,
cabbage and sprouts. The current birth rate of the world it will shortly be 12
billion. There is only three ways to stop overpopulation; mass murder, mass
sterilization and abortion, or economic enforcement. I prefer economic
enforcement. Making it so expensive to raise a child so that only 1.8 children
per fertile woman are born, or zero population growth, is the way to go. Many
Western countries are going this route already. China uses law
enforcement and forced abortion to control their population--I don't want to
go that route.<BR><BR>You guys are thinking so small, so tiny. It doesn't help
save the earth even a day to do these tiny things. If the Earth's environment
is going to be saved, it has to be on a HUGE scale, all over the world, and
people will have to be forced to do it by <SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline">economic
necessity</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">.</SPAN> Trying to do it
politically, socially, educating, or choosing one by one to change and start
caring for the world--it ain't gonna happen that way folks. Think BIG for a
BIG Problem. <BR><BR>Best,<BR><BR>_DJA<BR><BR><B><I>Nils Peterson
<nils_peterson@wsu.edu></I></B> wrote:
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not too surprised that there was not an outpouring of personal actions<BR>to
my previous question -- I'm about immobilized by the challenge as
well.<BR><BR>Carbon neutral is an interesting concept, but knowing if
something is carbon<BR>neutral is hard, and, given that most things include
a transportation<BR>element, its going to be hard to be
neutral.<BR><BR>Megan's veggie idea, as subsequently modified by other
suggestions is one<BR>that resonates for me -- eat lower on the carbon input
chain, which means<BR>eat local. That's something I can work on.<BR><BR>SO
now, I want to move the discussion out a level, what are WE, as
Moscow,<BR>gonna do?<BR><BR>I got a piece of good news last night, PCEI has
converted a vehicle to<BR>bio-diesel and they are talking about how to work
with other fleets in town<BR>to convert them, and have a local bio-diesel
supply. I know a couple other<BR>bio-diesel drivers around already and
having a supply closer than Lewiston<BR>would be welcome news to
them.<BR><BR>The COOP gives a discount for getting there by foot. One of the
businesses<BR>in Alturas Park (Anatech maybe?) gives employees a financial
incentive per<BR>mile that they travel to work by foot power. WSU & UI
run a bus between the<BR>campuses and its free to students and employees
(but UI almost cut the<BR>service this summer -- sad statement on their
green commitment)<BR><BR>What else can we, in whatever collective groups,
begin
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