This is stupid, because it assumes that the use of the world resources have a linear relationship to the world population. The reality is that it would have the same effect if we only got rid of the Americans and only around 300 million of them. This mirror the extreme imbalance in use of resources.
Because of this, it is not necessary to take any extreme measure as suggested. With growing lack of resources, it will not be enough for the industrialized countries to continue the extreme over consumption and they will have to adopt to a lower level. That would also stabilize the resource utilization at an uniform level over the current world population, close to the suggested for sustainability. This means hat the goal of reduction can be met with conservation and efficiency, which is a much nicer outcome than some sort of Nazi theory of the survival of the superior and their footprint. We already know that the current situation and imbalances are crazy from many point of views. Reduce the over utilization by the 20% of world population, will have the same effect and without killing anyone. Hakan At 18:43 04/04/2006, you wrote: > > > > >Did anybody know about this here? >cracy enough to come out of Texas >forewardet by Fritz > > > >31 March 2006 > > >Meeting Doctor Doom > >Forrest M. Mims III > >Copyright 2006 by Forrest M. Mims III. > >Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims told me about a speech he >heard at the Texas Academy of Science during which the speaker, a >world-renowned ecologist, advocated for the extermination of 90 >percent of the human species in a most horrible and painful manner. >Apparently at the speaker's direction, the speech was not video >taped by the Academy and so Forrest's may be the only record of what >was said. Forrest's account of what he witnessed chilled my soul. >Astonishingly, Forrest reports that many of the Academy members >present gave the speaker a standing ovation. To date, the Academy >has not moved to sanction the speaker or distance itself from the >speaker's remarks. > >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. > >Forrest, who is a member of the Texas Academy and chairs its >Environmental Science Section, told me he would be unable to >describe the speech in The Citizen Scientist because he has >protested the speech to the Academy and he serves as Editor of The >Citizen Scientist . Therefore, to preclude a possible conflict of >interest, I have directed Forrest to describe what he observed and >his reactions in this special feature, for which I have served as >editor and which is being released a week ahead of our normal >publication schedule. Comments may be sent to ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Backscatter . Shawn Carlson, Ph.D., Founder >and Executive Director, <http://www.sas.org/>Society for Amateur Scientists. > > There is always something special about science meetings. The > 109th meeting of the <http://www.texasacademyofscience.org/>Texas > Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March > 2006 was especially exciting for me, because a student and his > professor presented the results of a DNA study I suggested to them > last year. How fulfilling to see the baldcypress ( Taxodium > distichum ) leaves we collected last summer and my tree ring > photographs transformed into a first class scientific presentation > that's nearly ready to submit to a scientific journal (Brian Iken > and Dr. Deanna McCullough, "Bald Cypress of the Texas Hill Country: > Taxonomically Unique?" 109th Meeting of the Texas Academy of > Science Program and Abstracts [ > <http://www.texasacademyofscience.org/2006_tas_program.pdf>PDF ], > Poster P59, p. 84, 2006). > >But there was a gravely disturbing side to that otherwise >scientifically significant meeting, for I watched in amazement as a >few hundred members of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their >feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that enthusiastically >advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by >airborne Ebola. The speech was given by ><http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/eric.html>Dr. Eric R. Pianka >(Fig. 1), the University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard >expert who the Academy named the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist. > >Something curious occurred a minute before Pianka began speaking. An >official of the Academy approached a video camera operator at the >front of the auditorium and engaged him in animated conversation. >The camera operator did not look pleased as he pointed the lens of >the big camera to the ceiling and slowly walked away. > >This curious incident came to mind a few minutes later when >Professor Pianka began his speech by explaining that the general >public is not yet ready to hear what he was about to tell us. >Because of many years of experience as a writer and editor, Pianka's >strange introduction and the TV camera incident raised a red flag in >my mind. Suddenly I forgot that I was a member of the Texas Academy >of Science and chairman of its Environmental Science Section. >Instead, I grabbed a notepad so I could take on the role of science reporter. > >One of Pianka's earliest points was a condemnation of >anthropocentrism, or the idea that humankind occupies a privileged >position in the Universe. He told a story about how a neighbor asked >him what good the lizards are that he studies. He answered, "What >good are you?" > >Pianka hammered his point home by exclaiming, "We're no better than >bacteria!" > >Pianka then began laying out his concerns about how human >overpopulation is ruining the Earth. He presented a doomsday >scenario in which he claimed that the sharp increase in human >population since the beginning of the industrial age is devastating >the planet. He warned that quick steps must be taken to restore the >planet before it's too late. > >Saving the Earth with Ebola > >Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive >without drastic measures . Then, and without presenting any data to >justify this number, he asserted that the only feasible solution to >saving the Earth is to reduce the population to 10 percent of the >present number. > >He then showed solutions for reducing the world's population in the >form of a slide depicting the ><http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/bio213/why.html>Four Horsemen of >the Apocalypse . War and famine would not do, he explained. Instead, >disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the >billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. > >Pianka then displayed a slide showing rows of human skulls, one of >which had red lights flashing from its eye sockets. > >AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too >slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the >world's population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is >both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, >Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and >torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological >calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs. > >After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka >paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, >"We've got airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. >Think about that." > >With his slide of human skulls towering on the screen behind him, >Professor Pianka was deadly serious. The audience that had been >applauding some of his statements now sat silent. > >After a dramatic pause, Pianka returned to politics and >environmentalism. But he revisited his call for mass death when he >reflected on the oil situation. > >"And the fossil fuels are running out," he said, "so I think we may >have to cut back to two billion, which would be about one-third as >many people." So the oil crisis alone may require eliminating >two-third's of the world's population. > >How soon must the mass dying begin if Earth is to be saved? >Apparently fairly soon, for Pianka suggested he might be around when >the killer disease goes to work. He was born in 1939, and his >lengthy obituary appears on his ><http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/obit.html>web site . > >When Pianka finished his remarks, the audience applauded. It wasn't >merely a smattering of polite clapping that audiences diplomatically >reserve for poor or boring speakers. It was a loud, vigorous and >enthusiastic applause. > >Questions for Dr. Doom > >Then came the question and answer session, in which Professor Pianka >stated that other diseases are also efficient killers. > >The audience laughed when he said, "You know, the bird flu's good, >too." They laughed again when he proposed, with a discernable note >of glee in his voice that, "We need to sterilize everybody on the Earth." > >After noting that the audience did not represent the general >population, a questioner asked, "What kind of reception have you >received as you have presented these ideas to other audiences that >are not representative of us?" > >Pianka replied, "I speak to the converted!" > >Pianka responded to more questions by condemning politicians in >general and Al Gore by name, because they do not address the >population problem and "...because they deceive the public in every >way they can to stay in power." > >He spoke glowingly of the police state in China that enforces their >one-child policy. He said, "Smarter people have fewer kids." He said >those who don't have a conscience about the Earth will inherit the >Earth, "...because those who care make fewer babies and those that >didn't care made more babies." He said we will evolve as uncaring >people, and "I think IQs are falling for the same reason, too." > >With this, the questioning was over. Immediately almost every >scientist, professor and college student present stood to their feet >and vigorously applauded the man who had enthusiastically endorsed >the elimination of 90 percent of the human population. Some even >cheered. Dozens then mobbed the professor at the lectern to extend >greetings and ask questions. It was necessary to wait a while before >I could get close enough to take some photographs (Fig. 1). > >I was assigned to judge a paper in a grad student competition after >the speech. On the way, three professors dismissed Pianka as a >crank. While waiting to enter the competition room, a group of a >dozen Lamar University students expressed outrage over the Pianka speech. > >Yet five hours later, the distinguished leaders of the Texas Academy >of Science presented Pianka with a plaque in recognition of his >being named 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist. When the banquet >hall filled with more than 400 people responded with enthusiastic >applause, I walked out in protest. > >Corresponding with Dr. Doom > >Recently I exchanged a number of e-mails with Pianka. I pointed out >to him that one might infer his death wish was really aimed at >Africans, for Ebola is found only in Central Africa. He replied that >Ebola does not discriminate, kills everyone and could spread to >Europe and the the Americas by a single infected airplane passenger. > >In his last e-mail, Pianka wrote that I completely fail to >understand his arguments. So I did a check and found verification of >my interpretation of his remarks on his own web site. In a student >evaluation of a 2004 course he taught, one of Professor Pianka's >students wrote, "Though I agree that convervation [sic] biology is >of utmost importance to the world, I do not think that preaching >that 90% of the human population should die of ebola [sic] is the >most effective means of encouraging conservation awareness." (Go ><http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/bio357/357evaluations.html>here >and scroll down to just before the Fall 2005 evaluation section near the end.) > >Yet the majority of his student reviews were favorable, with one >even saying, " <http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/evaluations.html>I >worship Dr. Pianka ." > >The 45-minute lecture before the Texas Academy of Science converted >a university biology senior into a Pianka disciple, who then >published a blog that seriously supports Pianka's mass death wish. > >Dangerous Times > >Let me now remove my reporter's hat for a moment and tell you what I >think. We live in dangerous times. The national security of many >countries is at risk. Science has become tainted by highly >publicized cases of misconduct and fraud. > >Must now we worry that a Pianka-worshipping former student might >someday become a professional biologist or physician with access to >the most deadly strains of viruses and bacteria? I believe that >airborne Ebola is ><http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-1.2/Ebola.htm>unlikely to >threaten the world outside of Central Africa. But scientists have >regenerated the 1918 Spanish flu virus that killed 50 million >people. There is concern that small pox might someday return. And >what other terrible plagues are waiting out there in the natural >world to cross the species barrier and to which scientists will one >day have access? > >Meanwhile, I still can't get out of my mind the pleasant spring day >in Texas when a few hundred scientists of the Texas Academy of >Science gave a standing ovation for a speaker who they heard >advocate for the slow and tortuous death of over five billion human beings. > >Forrest M. Mims III is Chairman of the Environmental Science Section >of the Texas Academy of Science, and the editor of ><http://www.sas.org/>The Citizen Scientist. He and his science are >featured online at <http://www.forrestmims.org/>www.forrestmims.org >and <http://www.sunandsky.org/>www.sunandsky.org . The views >expressed herein are his own and do not represent the official views >of the Texas Academy of Science or the Society for Amateur Scientists. > >Copyright 2006 by Forrest M. 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