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Unless you just crawled out from under a rock yesterday (And having corresponded with some of you I have no doubt. ; ) you have probably heard the buzz<\/a> regarding the Lizard guy Eric Pianka.<\/a><\/p>\n Or more specifically, some comments he made to the Texas Academy of Science<\/a>. In his so-called doomsday speech (if like many non-science types you would like to take him out of context) he stated that Ebola would be an ideal way to deal with the vast overpopulation of the human species and how this would be a good thing for the rest of the Earth’s biomass. If the professional community has lost its sense of moral outrage when one if their own openly calls for the slow and painful extermination of over 5 billion human beings, then it falls upon the amateur community to be the conscience of science. If you choose to take his comments in context (I.E. not what it sounds like dim-bulb but what he actually meant,) it would go more like this. (my words) <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n From an objective point of view, humanity is in the middle of a crisis. We don’t realize it yet but we as a species will be facing a period of rapid change, beginning with a devastating population crash. This crash (if we are fortunate) will take us down to about 10% of our current population. Our current strategy of unbridled growth and exploitation of resources guarantees that the crash will take place sooner or later. Exactly how the crash will take place is unknown but pathogens like airborne Ebola which kills in as little as two days might be a prime candidate. How do we know that the crash will take place? Because it always does in any closed-biologic system. Note the terms “allways<\/strong>” and “any<\/strong>.” \u201cBut here’s what’s gonna happen.”And after the human population collapses, there’s going to be a lot fewer of us. Food is going to be diminished. Pollution is going to go down, which will be good. But there’s not going to be much to recover from. Our descendants are going to curse us for the party we took, the party we had, and I really recommend Richard Heinberg’s book the <\/em>Party is Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies<\/em><\/a>. This man has thought about these things deeply.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Pianka also thinks that we should get to Mars, as soon as possible. \u201cSend a one way spaceship loaded with people<\/em>” he says. \u201cSend along a complete Library of Congress on DVD so that when the Earth fizzles out at least some record of what happened will remain. We can only hope<\/em>” Pianka says\u201cThat the pioneers on Mars won’t make the same mistakes<\/em>.”<\/p>\n There are those who disagree with Dr. Pianka, to the point where someone actually reported<\/a> him to Homeland Security after his presentation. <\/span><\/p>\n WTF?!!<\/p>\n Anyone who doesn’t agree with the tenets of this guys speech is a freaking bat-guano eating mouth-breather in my not-so humble opinion. That’\u00a2s how strongly I feel about this. Overpopulation is bad freaking bad! We have too many kids, we use too much energy. We have big cars and inefficient appliances. We heat our homes in the winter and cool them in the summer. We drive huge gas guzzling behemoths. If you have a kid in the US or some other industrialized country you are automatically committing HUNDREDS of children in underdeveloped countries to a slow death by starvation. Each time you fill up your tank, someone dies.<\/p>\n Those are the facts. THINK!<\/p>\n Pianka’s just stating the obvious as known to anyone<\/em> who has studied biological systems. And he’s being panned for that? Oh the idiot humanity!<\/p>\n The lion is not going to lie down with the lamb. The Bush family is not going to suddenly realize that they are self serving ignoramuses. Some alien is not going to take you to the land of milk and honey. You already live there! What the hell do you think the rest of the solar system is like?<\/p>\n You believe someone is going to save you? You lazy moronic dim-bulb fecal headed morons! This fellow is telling your real future you ass-hats! No stupid-freaky UFO is going to swoop down and save your stinky booties. No ascended master will change trees into breadfruit. Jesus isn’t going to save you, light being Phatha and Saint Germaine are going to laugh at you.<\/p>\n So is the Odd Emperor.<\/p>\n Because you are all idiots!<\/a><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unless you just crawled out from under a rock yesterday (And having corresponded with some of you I have no doubt. ; ) you have probably heard the buzz regarding the Lizard guy Eric Pianka. Or more specifically, some comments … Continue reading
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