Re: ZPG & Y6B
I guess ZPG doesn't really mean ZPG. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Steve Kurtz wrote: > Re-post from KZPG (excerpt) by Ed Glaze > > "We don't see Y6B as a problem, but rather a milestone," said > Zero Population Growth Director of Communications Tim Cline. The mission > of > Y6B is to educate women, provide women with economic opportunities and > provide women with more reproductive health care. > > > Ed says: > > Again ZPG seems to avoid taking a stance on stopping or > reducing overpopulation. A milestone is thought of by most > people as an achievement and ZPG states that a population > of 6 billion is not a problem. Whose side are these guys on? > > If one of the leading population organizations implies that > continued growth is not a problem is it any wonder that our > government, media, and couples everywhere are unconcerned > about overpopulation? > > ZPG, by failing to take a stance on overpopulation, is undoing > or at least limiting the impact all its population education > programs may be having. Numbers are important and yet it > is not hard to imagine that in about a dozen years ZPG will > acknowledge yet another milestone -- Y7B. >
Re: Meadows on Smart Growth and Sprawl
Thank you, Rudy -- this supplements Steve's earlier posting very well, if it's called upon. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Rudy Rogalsky wrote: > Meadow's source for the 12 Big Myth's of Growth is Eben Fodor's 1999 big > little book called Better not Bigger:How to Take Control of Urban Growth > and Improve Your Community. The whole book is excellent. Other chapter > titles include > Meet the Urban Growth Machine > The Truth About Jobs, Housing and Growth > Discovering the Real Costs of Growth in Your Community > Putting the Brakes on Growth--What Works > Also, Fodor has appended a bibliography Urban Growth Management sources > and an extensive listing of mainly U.S. organizations concerned with land > use. > A gold mine of examples to back up your discussions with the growth-mania > types. > Rudy Rogalsky > > >
Re: Meadows on Smart Growth and Sprawl
I'm keeping it on file, thanks. There's a right nasty lot around here. Plus pro-gambling casino operators, to whom many of the same arguments apply. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [IKD] Information overload and Indigenous Knowledge
The way to fight information overload is to provide more information to overload the system? John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "Earth's system as a whole"-US Public Broadcasting TV series
Problem is it's on opposite "NYPD." John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Worldwatch optimism??
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Steve Kurtz wrote: > This sound nice, but no mention is made of the NET ADDITION of over 7 > million humans per MONTH to earth's population. Attitides and awareness > must include the responsibilities and effects of procreation if the below > perceptions are to become meaningfully realized. No mention is made of this element in eco-thinking, agreed; but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that it must be entering into system-planning for this near-revolution in global thinking by various interested parties; how could it be otherwise? John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G. Hardin new book
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Ray E. Harrell wrote: > Somewhere I read that the market must expand for it to work as a system. And thus become, ultimately, unworkable as a system...? > Could some of the economists fill me in on that one? I must say I'm not an economist, altho I sometimes play one when I'm pulling the ballot-lever. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G. Hardin new book
Casts a cold eye on capitalist expansionism, doesn't it? John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
