While agreeing there are too many people, I agree with the attached. What
are we supposed to do about it? I've done all I can to limit births (being
childless by choice). I will certainly holler if they decide I'm expendable.
Should we let sick people die? Not any of my loved ones, thank you.
So what can we really do? I ask sincerely because I love this beautiful
planet and all its life but I'm at a loss. I do everything I know how to do,
vote, sign petitions, donate money when I can, recycle, try to persuade
others. What more can we reasonably do without trying to come up with a
"final solution." Any ideas, tweets?

Rahne Kirkham
rahne at mindspring.com
Federal Way, Washington

When asked why she was always so cheerful,
the old woman replied,
"Well, I just wear this world as a loose garment."
----- Original Message -----
From: <sanjer at televar.com>
To: <nyneve at u.washington.edu>
Cc: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: we are standing at the dawn of another mesozoic era! (LONG)
(fwd)


>
>
> Deborah Wisti-Peterson wrote:
>
> > i thought you all would like to read this.
>
> Big snip.
>
> > "The question is, Is that what we want? How many people do we want on
> > this planet?"
> >
> > Controlling food production could be one way of controlling the
> > population, according to Thornhill. "Every year we produce more than
> > we did last year, and every year the population gets larger. In any
> > ecological system, more food equals more individuals."
>
> Okay, reduce human population.
> snip
>
> > Medicinal plants are particularly important, Raven said.
> >
> > For example, rosy periwinkle, a plant native only to Madagascar, is
> > the source of a drug that makes Eli Lilly US$130 million per year. The
> > drug shot increases the survival rate for childhood leukemia from one
> > in 20 to 19 in 20.
>
> I thought the solution was to reduce the population.
>
> We could go to the other end of the age group and start producing "Soilent
> Green" thereby reducing the population and providing a food source at the
> same time.
>
> Jerry Converse
> Grand Coulee, WA
>
>