Re: "Humans 'very likely' making earth warmer" is wrong - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

02-06-2007, 04:29 AM

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:04:22 +1100, "Rod Speed"
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>> We will probably hit about 9 billion before someone in power realizes that "growth" is not a good
>> thing.
>
>China did that decades ago now.
>

Yes, and China gets blasted by the US for having the nerve to demand
that their population limit itself to one child per couple.

02-06-2007, 10:09 AM

dgk <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Bill Baka <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote

>>> We will probably hit about 9 billion before someone
>>> in power realizes that "growth" is not a good thing.

>> China did that decades ago now.

> Yes,

So that 9B may not happen any time soon.

> and China gets blasted by the US for having the nerve to
> demand that their population limit itself to one child per couple.

It aint 'the US', just the rabid bible bashers who hate abortions.

The chinese did get pretty gung ho about that, essentially forced abortions
of you were stupid enough to **** up the most basic birth control or deliberately
attempted to have more than one brat, usually because the first wasnt a boy.