[dinopello]

Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot - Probably not much of an uplifting coffee table book but it does seem to have lots of pictures. Some are quite beautiful and not all in an apocalyptic way. The site link above lets you read the entire thing online and see the pictures.

[Pops]

Cool, found this right off
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he United Nations estimates that it would cost an additional $3.5 billion per year to provide contraceptive information and services to the more than 220 million women in the developing world who want to avoid a pregnancy but who are not using a modern method of contraception. (That’s less than 4 percent of what Americans spend on beer each year.)

[kiwichick]

Yanks spend $ 80 billion a year on beer?

[vox_mundi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '[')url=https://populationspeakout.org/]Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot -[/url] Probably not much of an uplifting coffee table book but it does seem to have lots of pictures. Some are quite beautiful and not all in an apocalyptic way. The site link above lets you read the entire thing online and see the pictures.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kiwichick', 'Y')anks spend $ 80 billion a year on beer?

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'C')ool, found this right off
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he United Nations estimates that it would cost an additional $3.5 billion per year to provide contraceptive information and services to the more than 220 million women in the developing world who want to avoid a pregnancy but who are not using a modern method of contraception. (That’s less than 4 percent of what Americans spend on beer each year.)

[jedrider]

Beautiful book. I should have it right next to a book of pictures of bacterial growth.

[Timo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kiwichick', 'Y')anks spend $ 80 billion a year on beer?

[kiwichick]

@ os

you could start with an increase in the tax on alcohol

or a tax on sugar

or increase the tax on petrol (gasoline) to help pay for the maintenance on roads/bridges ..... and provide more jobs at the same time

or pay women to delay having their first (and/or second ) child , as they do in some other over populated countries , like India.

[jedrider]

[quote="kiwichick"]@ os
you could start with an increase in the tax on alcohol
quote]

Why? What are people going to do for fun? Fornicate?

Tax on Petrol, I agree 100%. No tax write-off for children. I agree.

[SilentRunning]

Why pay 2.5 billion a year today, when we can just let things slide some more and resort to the most ancient form of population control: Cannibalism!

Paying today for birth control would be what an INTELLIGENT, COMPASSIONATE species would do.

[Ibon]

The book is a raw and honest assessment of human overshoot. Beautifully done. It should be a mandatory presentation in every high school on the planet.

Oh where is the environmental benevolent dictator when we need him or her?

Perhaps he or she is not human?

[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'T')he book is a raw and honest assessment of human overshoot. Beautifully done. It should be a mandatory presentation in every high school on the planet.

Oh where is the environmental benevolent dictator when we need him or her?

Perhaps he or she is not human?

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'T')he newsprint for the Sunday edition of the New York Times was cut from 100 acres of forest, approximately 75,000 trees per edition.

How many of these adorable little things had to die for this coffee table book?

[Timo]

I'm having a real hard time with this book. I agree 100% with Ibon, that it should be mandatory reading for every high school student on the planet. More than that, though, it should be mandatory reading for every living human being! This is a wake-up call to reality if there ever was one. However, my problem, and I'm not really sure how personal this problem is, is how to present this book for other people to read. If I sent someone the link to this book, or bought a copy for someone as a gift, that person would probably never speak to me again! It is a very damning book on the state of humanity, and everyone who reads it instantly recognizes that they are, themselves, a part of the problem, and the problem is not something that they can remove themselves from. We're a part of the human civilization, and this is what human civilization has done to the planet, and is continuing to do at an exponential rate. Thanks for ruining any enjoyment in life I might ever have again. F U, Timo!

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')
I suggest we all of us rather than running around making an important point, learn how to enjoy ourselves locally, minimally perhaps with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Viva la revolution!

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Timo', ' ')It is a very damning book on the state of humanity, and everyone who reads it instantly recognizes that they are, themselves, a part of the problem, and the problem is not something that they can remove themselves from. We're a part of the human civilization, and this is what human civilization has done to the planet, and is continuing to do at an exponential rate. Thanks for ruining any enjoyment in life I might ever have again. F U, Timo!

[Timo]

My nephew arrived in Texas today to begin an internship with a fracking company. He's being used to research a new method of fracking, one that's supposed to be less dangerous, thus implicitly acknowledging that the current method is dangerous. His grandfather honestly believes that oil regenerates in a period of 20 to 40 years, hence the new oil boom in Texas after the first boom went bust. My nephew is young enough (junior in college) that he might still be able to understand this book. His grandfather, and the rest of his family? Acknowledging reality is heresy. Every single child on the planet is a gift from God, and he has a plan for every single one. Shut up! Ignore reality, and submit yourself to God's ultimate plan. He promised to save us.

From ourselves.

I gave up talking about reality with those folks a couple decades ago. It is a pointless and counterproductive effort. The stupid is strong with some.