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by Blck-shouldered Kite on Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:55 pm

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Sadly, this will be the end of Africa's wildlife.

When is the human species going to wake up and realize that it is reproducing itself to extinction?

When is the world going to begin thinking about zero population growth?

And we're supposed to be sensitive to Save the Children?

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by Primus on Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:51 am

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Rampant population growth has been the scourge of 'development' across the world. In the post-contraception era one would have thought that the growth of humanity would have slowed down as people educated themselves.

Sadly, religious leaders continue to promote high fertility within their flock, numbers are still very important. God is greedy, wants more and more souls. If you can't convert, just produce your own! Combine this with a largely poor, uneducated and ignorant population and you are all set for a demographic explosion.

The wildlife has no chance. Never did.

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by WDCarrier on Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:27 am

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Since we came down out of the trees humanity has been adept in our development of devices to destroy the natural aspects of our environment…and each other. From spears to guns to nuclear missiles, yet nothing can even hold a candle to our most destructive invention…religion.

[font=Helvetica, sans-serif]“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” MLK[/font]

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by WDCarrier on Sat Aug 22, 2015 10:21 am

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I retreat to one of my favorite poems, Ozymandias by Percy Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

[font=Helvetica, sans-serif]“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” MLK[/font]

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by OntPhoto on Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:42 am

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Blck-shouldered Kite wrote:http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/18/news/co ... TL_Popular

Sadly, this will be the end of Africa's wildlife.
(I doubt that. Man and wild beast have co-existed for a very long time. Sure as more people encroach on wildlife habitat there'll be some conflict and wildlife usually loses).

When is the human species going to wake up and realize that it is reproducing itself to extinction?
(Sounds almost like an oxymoron I think in well developed countries we have the luxury to think about that)

When is the world going to begin thinking about zero population growth?
(Doubt this would ever happen and more wishful thinking than anything)

And we're supposed to be sensitive to Save the Children?
(It's not the children's fault).