G Huxley

"Population imbalance which leaves tens of millions of men without a prospect of having a stable longterm relationship might likely cause war wether small or large and would bring starvation and disease with it to some extent. " Then the Chinese would be bringing it upon themselves wouldn't they?

If they tell us we need to do a better job on the environment then we should take action to do a better job.

Agreed.

An extensive list which reminds just how much damage Harper has done. Never forget.

"But at this point species extinction is on the radar and is almost universally regarded as something to be avoided." Hardly humans are continuing to drive species to extinction at an ever more alarming rate. "Humankind is the only species which now takes deliberate steps to try to prevent the extinction of other species." As a species we haven't done anything to stop our species from exterminating species. "And, if we survive for the long term," Not at this rate. "then it is likely that many species that exist today will be preserved along with us due to our efforts, species that would otherwise have gone extinct by natural causes otherwise." The other species are losing the battle against us. "We'll get there, as well as other planets." How will we do that if we've wiped out life on earth? Also why would we do that if we just destroy the life on other planets?

Go live on Mars then seeing as you prefer dead planets.

Overpopulating the earth involves the serial murder of countless species.

We've caused the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs were wiped out.

Would you apply the same logic to a serial killer?

The only thing insane would be a population increase.

Are you willing to pay for some of them?

I think they prefer door to door.

Over population is the problem. It is in fact the #1 problem on this planet right now. "I would think that human lives matter, but maybe not." If our governments thought human lives mattered then we wouldn't be engaged in constant war. When the world is over populated it will start to be obvious that we have over valued human life at the expense of all other life on the planet which shows how selfish humans really are, and that we are not half as great as we like to think. "But another strange thing is these large empty cities China has built but no one lives in them. That is also an environmental disaster. Even the dam that was build and put many villages under water is an environmental disaster. Heck, just look at Beijing on a nice 'sunny' day." Now they've built all those empty cities and now plan to fill them. Yep the world is screwed.

I'm a pacifist. Having restrictions on the number of children that can be produced is a method of reducing a population without disease, starvation and war. It is obviously the better solution. Or perhaps you would prefer disease, famine and war as a method of reducing the population?

"Why?" The extra charges would be fair and eliminate junk mail deliveries thus saving countless trees.

I disagree. I've heard this complaint before, but actually it is better if there are less females than males, because the more females the more children can be produced.

I think it's a disaster for the world environment and it will affect Canada as well. Overpopulation is the single biggest problem on the planet right now and has caused the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs died out.

Nope I even came up with a slogan with a nice ring to it: Keep Door to Door Just Charge More

Well I don't think it's necessary for Canada post to deliver to the door of a guy liviing in a hut on an iceberg.

Keep door to door deliver, end delivering junk mail.

Sure why not? This was before every 7 year old was wired into an Ipad.

Boohoohoo I'm a conservative who drives a gas guzzling SUV everywhere and gets so upset when those liberals try to make me pay extra taxes for it.

Satire right?

"Also, just because the democracy was 'tribal', doesn't mean it can't work on a bigger scale. And it's not really the West's job to 'transfer' democracy to them; it is their job to decide they want it and work it out from there, in whatever form works the best for them." Agreed, but that's exactly what the west doesn't understand. "I can appreciate your tendency to skepticism, but it is starting to look to me as if you are dismissing any signs of progress and effort, preferring instead to believe that democracy cannot happen due to some failing of the people in the region. I can agree that it may not happen but certainly not because people don't want peace and democracy, or don't know what peace and democracy mean. " If they believe in it they can demonstrate it. They aren't demonstrating it with very few exceptions. The west doesn't believe in peace either btw and it's claims of believing in democracy are also often pretty dubious.

The FSA got money and weapons from NATO especially Turkey and the CIA funneled weapons to them via Turkey. The recent wiping out of 8 Syrian tanks in one day is a pretty good signal that those TOW anti-tank missiles have been arriving. Important read: Tony Blair just admitted that Iraq had to do with the formation of ISIS http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34630380