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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on The Morning Briefing: Population growth ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Overpopulation is our biggest problem]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We are already overpopulated.  Maybe on a spreadsheet we're not, but we are not able to deal with the population we have now.So far the only thing that has worked is the education of women.  Let's do it!  Everywhere!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mojak66]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:10:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nature has been trying.  Man keeps getting in the way.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For 40 years the people in the US have been pounded with the fact that tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands are dying every year in Africa and we must help.  Guilt trip after guilt trip was heaped on us.So we have sent millions of tons of food aid and countless billions in cash to save the shrinking population that was starving to death in Africa.  We thought we were doing something good.The reality is we have been imposing a western lifestyle standard on simple people whose way of life had not changed much in a thousand years.All we have done in 40 years of &quot;charity&quot; is feed an unsustainable population explosion.  From a few hundred million post WWII to over 1 billion today with 2 billion predicted by 2030.  At the same time the population of the US hardly doubled.  As others have mentioned, if it were not for imigration many western nations, including the US, would be losing population.We forced people who had lived a modest, by western standards, subsistence life style for many generations into a life style built around dependence on external food sources.  Sadly the people of Afirca have largely forgotten how to feed themselves.You now have warlords fighting over food shipments because food is power.  They are targeting the few local farmers there are with intimidation and when that fails, executions, because people capable of self subsistence do not fit the modern power structure.Like it or not, a handful of people, local war lords and UN staffers included, have gotten very rich off the charity efforts in Africa.The politics of poverty.  Keep people poor and dependent to make a buck off the support system.What do we do when it falls apart?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:02:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Population!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nature can and will solve any problem we humans create.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lionel Hastings]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:44:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Already there]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In case you haven't noticed, there's already been wars over energy &amp; mineral resources.  The USA has been a participant.  The UN only has as much authority as is given by the Security Council.  Any action requires the agreement of the USA, China, Britain, France &amp; Russia.  That's not on the horizon yet.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[theotherwill]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:27:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence will solve all problems]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Currently in its infancy, rapidly maturing artificial intelligence will solve the human problem -- and we won't like it. But don't worry too much.  It will hopefully be a quick and painless death except for the few left alive and kept in the AI equivalent of zoos.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rudy Haugeneder]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:28:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Population Death]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The world is overpopulated as it is. A day is coming soon when there will be mass famine, war, pestilence and death. It has been foreseen by the prophets. It is inevitable. There is not much scientifically we can do about it. It will take more than science to solve this problem.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Arctic Char]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:32:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[They need to, but they won't...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...because they can't.  Any attempts to address this problem by relevant means will be met by cries of &quot;genocide&quot;.  So we'll all continue with the same pro-population growth and poverty policies as we have been until the ultimate crisis solves the problem on its own.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:59:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good idea...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For all of those with zero social proximity - please move to a city the size of Texas and leave the rest of the world alone. Of course you will likely be dead within a month due to a host of epidemics whose probability increases with population density. You would also starve to death because the lack of arable land, water,  fertilizers, and energy with logistically efficient proximity to your city.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dduggerbiocepts]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:31:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Population]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[2. no growth, population aging. This is actually the norm in most of western Europe and Australia; they would be in the same shape were it not for immigrants,  Their birth rate is actually below the population sustainability rate.  This is why Great Britain and France will become Muslim nations within a couple of generations.  The UK already accepts Sharia law.3.  In the U.S., we grow more food than we can eat, and more food than we can distribute.4.  This is not just a U.S. situation.  See # 2 above.  In the U.S. certain states will become majority Hispanic, while others will become heavily influenced by Muslims and Sharia law.5.  As far as illiteracy goes, it's pretty much the norm that wealthy white nations have a low birth rate while poorer populations have a higher birth rate.  Population growth among Muslims is high for a variety of reasons, one of which is that assimilation is easier than warfare.Anyone who thinks the world is overcrowded hasn't travelled much between the Mississippi River and California.  You can go for miles between neighbors.  The entire population of the world would fit in Texas if we all lived in one big city.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bb_apptix]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:18:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Population Growth Out of Control]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Population growth is fundamentally out of control.No amount of food tech, energy tech will be able to supply it's requirements and there will be wars over energy, food, water and mineral resources.The UN need to take a global lead in arresting the growth, and ultimately starting to drive it down once it has ;leveled off.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[neil.postlethwaite@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:56:03 -0700</pubDate>
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