How would one go about substantiating the claim that "that all organisms breed to the limit of their available resources", anyway?
--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Is World De-Population a Problem?
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 7:37 AM
> I hadn't realized that aging gets
> more rapid when birthrates decline...
> while the cost of aging populations is of course very real,
> I guess this
> article's an example of the kind of powerful insight one
> gets when
> predicating your understanding of social life on
> scientifically illiterate
> misinterpretations of Darwin.
> -A
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Steven L. Robinson <srobin21 at comcast.net>wrote:
>
> > Headed toward extinction?
> >
> > World depopulation - rather than overpopulation - is
> the troublesome trend
> > that should concern the entire planet.
> >
> > By Phillip Longman
> > USA Today
> > March 24, 2009
> >
> > World population will hit 7 billion by 2012, according
> to a recent United
> > Nations report. Given that we just hit the 6 billion
> mark in October 1999,
> > it is easy to conclude that there are just too many
> people in the world.
> > How
> > are we ever going to overcome global warming, feed the
> masses, get that
> > beachfront property, let alone find parking, if the
> population keeps
> > jumping
> > by nearly one billion per decade?
> >
> > The good news is that's not going to happen again. If
> you need another
> > megatrend to worry about, fixate instead on the
> growing prospects for world
> > depopulation and what it means for you and your
> children (assuming you have
> > any).
> >
> > Yes, human population is still growing in some places
> dramatically so. But
> > at the same time, a strange new phenomenon is
> spreading around the globe,
> > one whose very existence contradicts the deepest
> foundations of our modern
> > mind-set.
> >
> > Darwinism presupposes, and modern biology teaches,
> that all organisms breed
> > to the limit of their available resources. Yet
> starting in the world's
> > richest, best-fed nations during the 1970s,and now
> spreading throughout the
> > developing world, we find birthrates falling below the
> levels needed to
> > avoid long-term, and in many instances, short-term,
> population loss. The
> > phenomenon has spread beyond Europe and Asia to Latin
> America.
> >
> > ...SNIP...
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