Subject: [Tweeters] comment
Date: Jul 25 21:39:10 2006
From: Eugene and Nancy Hunn - enhunn323 at comcast.net


Tweets,

My contribution to this demographic thread is simply to point out that it is
not the human population per se that is the problem but the human footprint,
which in broadbrush terms is population x per capita energy consumption.
Given the fact that each of us in the United States consumes perhaps 20 x
the energy of the average citizen of India (these figures are dynamic and
rather crudely calculated, but probably in the ball park), the "population
problem" is not so much over there but right here.

Gene Hunn.
18476 47th Pl. NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
enhunn323 at comcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Kaufman" <beaux at u.washington.edu>
To: "Tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:26 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] comment


>
>
> Ian Paulsen has stated the basic problem - the exponential increase in
> human population .
> It is the classic displacement of one species by another.
> In this instance the species displacing all others , Homo sapiens, the
> wise man, has, in addition to numbers and strength, a mind.
> it is really no different than any dominant animal group moving into
> an
> area, be it small or large or continental, and overwhelming the occupant.
> However in this instance the dominant group with a mind has employed
> technology to increase its domain, its niche.
> Without intervention, the limiting of human population growth, we can
> expect nothing other than the displacement, and extinction, of other
> groups,
> e.g., nighthawks.
> It is good and honorable to protect the environment and wildlife but
> unless human population is limited the ultimate result is only delayed.
>
> Bill Kaufman
> Woodinville. WA
>
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