I am pleased to see that the recent Climate Teach-Ins drew so much attention. One question: Who is talking about population growth as a driver of climate change? My guess is that it’s still too volatile a topic for anyone – politicians, newspapers, even students – to talk about.

The main change that needs to happen on this planet is for our human numbers to be reduced to a sustainable number. That number is a lot less than the 6.7 billion people on the planet today. Let’s get real and make population growth the main topic of discussion. To do otherwise is to continue to fool ourselves, and we don’t really have the time for that.

Albert Kaufman, Portland

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  1. There was a dozen too many people when the first one showed up…The planet has a terminal virus…and we are it…

    When all of you have left, I’ll consider your example.

  2. The Climate Teach-ins should be called the climate propaganda-ins. There is a lot of evidence that the climate regularly has its temperature ups and downs. Many of the hysterics promoting “global warming,” if you look at their politics, are mostly concerned with lowering our standard of living to that of third world countries…because they hate America, hate our prosperity and want to trash our economy.

    These folks are the pro-UN, commie, socialist, Move-0n-0-crats that want to redistribute all wealth and bring everyone down to the same low level…

    Were we to do that (and this is what these morons don’t comprehend) is that in ten years, all the current haves and have nots would all be right back in the same place they are now…the do-ers do and the ass sitters…sit on their ass.

    You can monkey with the system…but people stay the same. You can redistribute wealth…but you can’t redistribute creative zeal, work ethic, a desire to excel and intelligence. We are all born equal…and one second later…that equality is a figment of the dim past.

    Imagine if all the “reformers” had to first take an enlightenment test….This would eliminate all these dumb bastards from screwing things up…even worse…because they don’t have the vaguest clue what the hell reality actually is…

    Ten thousand years ago…Christmas Valley had palm and magnolia trees, camels, and a warm humid Mediterranean climate…hell of lot hotter here, when there was damn few people around…The rains of Western Oregon have only been around for about five thousand years…before that it was a Savannah in the coastal, Salem and Eugene area…crap changes all the time…it is doing that now in a very minor way…with all due respect,take your alarmist ignorant do-gooder socialistic leveling politics…grab the nearest telephone pole…and shove them where the sun don’t shine.

  3. The only real issue is that humankind can only exist on this planet in a very narrow range of conditions, and the planet is quite capable of altering those conditions in a relatively short time. We are but fleas agitating the hide of a far greater organism.

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