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HOP is the fundamental cause of the ecological crisis and its ramifications. So what have we seen in the Media for the last few decades about HOP?


Not much on video.


Not much on the tele.


Pathetically little in print.


We're still waiting.

How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection
dieoff.org/page118.htm


Dr. Dolittle
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Chimp
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Witless reporter
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We heard about animal experiments going on in Japan in which primates were doing some innovative and really entertaining things. One little Chimp likes to watch TV and look at newspapers a lot. We wondered what we could find out if we could talk to the animals. Dr. Dolittle was there. He was doing very little at the time so he said he'd translate whatever Chimp wanted to say. We needed a reporter to go over there and cover the story. George W. Gunslinger, an erstwhile witless defense lawyer turned reporter, was on standby alert. Since the ex-witless for the defense had been chomping at the bit and there was no one else available, we let him have a go at it.

Solar + Fuel Cells = ?
We were thinking about putting solar cells together with very efficient fuel cells. It seemed like a clever idea. We wondered what Chimp might tell us, so Witless asked Chimp about it.

Witless goes, "Whaddya think little fella?"


"The biggest IF primates have ever faced.
In fact the biggest IF primates could ever concieve. We'll be happy IF humans will stop trashing our trees. We don't like Media bozos mouthing mumbo-jumbo about saving the freakin rainforests."


This must be what he's trying to tell us.

"Which will it be? Armageddon or Brave New World? When will we know? When we hear the Media telling the truth, we will know that the decision has been made to choose a Brave New World.Until we hear the truth in the Media, the status quo has humanity on a collision course with Armageddon.
The Media Is The Message, isn't it?"

Chimp goes, "So what? I might care if I had a home to go back to. Chimps wanting Armageddon, (Rev 16:16), so that species SANItizations will stop is like humans in rich countries who see AIDS as a racial cleanser, only in reverse."

Witless reporter goes, "Huh? I don't get it."

WHAT IS CARRYING CAPACITY?: from the Carrying Capacity Network
A common fallacy is to equate existing and seemingly open or "unused" spaces with the kind of resources and ecologically productive land needed to support human life under modern conditions. In fact, the criterion for determining whether a region is overpopulated is not land area, but carrying capacity. Carrying capacity refers to the number of individuals who can be supported in a given area within natural resource limits, and without degrading the natural social, cultural and economic environment for present and future generations. The carrying capacity for any given area is not fixed. It can be altered by improved technology, but mostly it is changed for the worse by pressures which accompany a population increase. As the environment is degraded, carrying capacity actually shrinks, leaving the environment no longer able to support even the number of people who could formerly have lived in the area on a sustainable basis. No population can live beyond the environment's carrying capacity for very long. The average American's ecological footprint, that is the demands an individual endowed with average amounts of resources, land, water, food, fiber, waste assimilation and disposal, etc. puts on the environment, is about 12 acres, an area far greater thacarrying capacity" not land area. The effects of unfettered population growth drastically reduce the carrying capacity in the United States.n that taken up by one's residence and place of school or work and other places where he or she is. We must think in terms of ..."

"So whaddya think little fella?"

Chimp goes, "Anthropocentric mush. Carrying capacity indeed. Key words: social, cultural and economic environment. Do goofy looking apes like me fit into that picture? Or in the zoo? I've got two words, victis honor."


Animals

"From: VEGANGORILLA
It is no accident that the countries with the highest population growth rates in the world are Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Palestinians, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, and Libya.Islam has adopted a biological survival strategy of producing babies as fast as possible, sending the young men off to war, and neglecting the health of the women. This strategy has worked in the past, as other countries have been conquered and plundered to make room for expanding populations. But now, the Islamic countries are clashing with the West over dwindling land, water, food, and space. Fundamentalist Christians and Catholics have the same philosophy, make babies and then let wars, famines, and epidemics sort out the surplus population."
forums.delphiforums.com/overpopulation/

Dolittle goes, "So whaddya think little fella?"

"America uses overpopulation as a tool to keep the wretched poor countries poor, unstable, and in chaos. And the Pope helps out for obvious reasons. Bush reimposdeth the gag ruleth on day one-eth. Isn't it obvious?"

Dolittle goes, "Cheeky little fella, aren't ya?"


Or the power of the Media.

Witless asked Chimp what he thought about this:


ecole-adventures.com/commandments.html

Chimp sees this and goes, "That all sounds great. Now let's see you do it."

If only the available imagery could be presented properly, we would be able to see the habitat destruction on a day by day basis anywhere and everywhere. At any given square meter of the globe. Like this:

For as long as humans sing that old lame tune about how there's no HOP and technology is the glorious answer to everything, remaining ecosystem areas will continue to be transformed into agricultural areas. Primates once lived in ecosystem areas. Primates can not live in cleared forests.

How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection
dieoff.org/page118.htm

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