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roamer65

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22. We need to start providing financial incentives for birth control and abortion.

Reply to Yupster (Reply #14)

Sun Oct 22, 2017, 06:12 PM

Oct 2017

Stop paying people to have children and pay them NOT to have children instead.

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A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It's a catastrophe [View all] donotpissoffacow Oct 2017 OP

Scary to even contemplate octoberlib Oct 2017 #1

Spiecies of all kinds of creatures are being wiped out and made extinct democratisphere Oct 2017 #2

Case in point tecelote Oct 2017 #13

I know. The next Armageddon on Earth rests squarely on the shoulders of huMANs. democratisphere Oct 2017 #15

Just wait until the nukes come out. roamer65 Oct 2017 #21

I keep saying within a month. The only reason it hasnt happened is Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #52

Kick for exposure! red dog 1 Oct 2017 #3

Our turn will come. We already see it in increased illness, Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #4

Off to the greatest page for visibility malaise Oct 2017 #5

I was out on the highway in farm country the other day... Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2017 #6

It really is astounding. gvstn Oct 2017 #7

when was the last time ... donotpissoffacow Oct 2017 #8

I live in Lake County about 100 miles north of San Francisco. Mr.Bill Oct 2017 #11

Plenty here in Florida ornotna Oct 2017 #12

I've been able to sit out on my back deck in the evening, in the middle of farm country, sagesnow Oct 2017 #9

Some insects and bugs are growing in numbers due to Climate Change too. BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #10

There are simply way too many people in the world Yupster Oct 2017 #14

We need to start providing financial incentives for birth control and abortion. roamer65 Oct 2017 #22

And pile on taxes if they have more than replacement donotpissoffacow Oct 2017 #25

But we're not the problem Yupster Oct 2017 #29

By the raw numbers you are correct. By carbon footprint SaintLouisBlues Oct 2017 #33

Yeah, so what happens when the one billion Yupster Oct 2017 #38

We're fucked either way, but don't pretend the Western lifestyle is not the problem. SaintLouisBlues Oct 2017 #40

It's just arithmetic Yupster Oct 2017 #41

Do you seriously think... donotpissoffacow Oct 2017 #34

Demography is destiny Yupster Oct 2017 #36

Is anyone paying the people of Yupster Oct 2017 #30

It is not about the shear numbers, it is about resource usage per capita. SaintLouisBlues Oct 2017 #39

It's multiplication Yupster Oct 2017 #42

I did not propose a solution. I don't think there are any realistic ones. SaintLouisBlues Oct 2017 #43

There is only one solution Yupster Oct 2017 #44

Don't worry, that is going to happen. donotpissoffacow Oct 2017 #53

The sixth great mass extinction... Locut0s Oct 2017 #16

Noticed this earlier this summer cilla4progress Oct 2017 #17

Here's something you can do NJCher Oct 2017 #18

We have had the pleasure of doing this missingthebigdog Oct 2017 #20

that makes me so happy to hear NJCher Oct 2017 #55

There's good reason to be suspicious of insecticides. hunter Oct 2017 #19

The excessive use of Roundup on our food crops is obscene - messing with our bodies & the bees too! womanofthehills Oct 2017 #37

Parts Per Billion Major Nikon Oct 2017 #45

It must be cow farts. roamer65 Oct 2017 #23

"We are part of the natural world." Plucketeer Oct 2017 #24

Yourself. donotpissoffacow Oct 2017 #31

We're an anomaly, a genetic burp in the natural world. defacto7 Oct 2017 #26

Every life form is an anomaly. Plucketeer Oct 2017 #27

Roaches, ants, jellyfish, dinosaurs, sharks, flies, bees defacto7 Oct 2017 #35

So sharks Plucketeer Oct 2017 #46

Well, you sure missed the point of that one. defacto7 Oct 2017 #48

OK then Plucketeer Oct 2017 #49

As part of the natural world quaker bill Oct 2017 #28

Tools have gotten us ways donotpissoffacow Oct 2017 #32

Sadly Plucketeer Oct 2017 #50

Each and every one of us believes... donotpissoffacow Oct 2017 #54

K&R. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2017 #47

mother nature usuallu has a way to correct a problem, perhaps in 100yrs humans won't be causing one beachbum bob Oct 2017 #51