2010 Global Population Speak Out commences
Posted on January 31, 2010
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The GPSO idea
GPSO was born of a simple idea: What if a large number of qualified voices worldwide, many of whom might not have emphasized the topic previously, were to speak out on overpopulation all at once? The strength of numbers might help weaken the taboo and bring population issues to a more prominent position in the global discussion.
How it works
GPSO begins with an invitation (the GPSO letter) we send to a large number of scientists and scholars, environmental, science, and social policy writers, editors, and activists, staff members of environmental NGOs, politicians, and a variety of prominent public figures. As a group of concerned scientists and environmental writers and activists, we invite them merely to pledge to speak out in some way, during the month of February on the problem of the size and growth of the human population.
We also welcome pledges from ordinary, concerned citizens. See this page for details.
Importantly, participants can be sure they will have plenty of good company in their efforts. During the 2009 GPSO, over 200 prominent people worldwide spoke out in some way. For GPSO 2010, we have exceeded 260 pledges and expect many more — respected voices from all across the planet will be speaking out publicly on the population issue during a single month.
Some of the 2010 participants will be speaking publicly on the topic for the first time, others will already be well known experts and activists. Of course, this year — and every year — our most important objective is to bring new voices to the issue to help break down the barriers so that others can follow. After every February, the global discussion of overpopulation comes a little more easily and we move one step closer to a sustainable future.
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Yes, the world is over-populated. I see two choices: A. you can either stop the oligarch’s mechanized export farming, allowing the indigenous people the world over to feed themselves, allow developing countries to develop their own resources without fear of being invaded, undermined, or have their leaders assassinated to be replaced by compliant thugs that will sell their oil and other resources thereby raising their living and educations standards, perhaps fore-stalling forced migrations to developed countries, with attened backlash. These practices could support current and event projected populations for another generation, say 7 to 9 billion, allowing enough time for sex and birth control education to take hold; or B. we can continue the domination of the world by a handful of oligarch’s and their corporations, conniving to gain control of the world’s remaining resources causing chaos, starvation, genocide and mass-murder in the wake of the state-sponsored terror tactics used to undermine and control soveriegn nations.
So, in a nut-shell: A. 7 to 9 billion educated and well-fed poeple without the billionaire oligarchs and their criminal enterprises, or B. 2 to 3 billion starving, servile serfs and a handful of billionaire oligarchs running rough-shod over everyone?
For myself, personally, I perfer choice A.