Comments on: Is the world overpopulated? http://blog.fathersforlife.org/2010/08/26/is-the-world-overpopulated/ About fathers and families, and the war against them. Wed, 23 May 2012 10:34:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: ProfBob http://blog.fathersforlife.org/2010/08/26/is-the-world-overpopulated/#comment-15648 ProfBob Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:01:24 +0000 http://blog.fathersforlife.org/2010/08/26/is-the-world-overpopulated/#comment-15648 I find in reading those sites that say that population problems are a myth that their evidence is very sparse and inconclusive. Recently I read Book 1 of the free e-book series “In Search of Utopia” (http://andgulliverreturns.info), it blasts their lack of evidence relative to their calling overpopulation a myth. The book, actually the last half of the book, takes on the skeptics in global warming, overpopulation, lack of fresh water, lack of food, and other areas where people deny the evidence. I strongly suggest that anyone wanting to see the whole picture read the book, at least the last half. The outdated fertility replacement rate of 2.1 is also clarified. <strong>Response by F4L:</strong> You need to either quote something from the book or at least summarize or paraphrase a point or two made in the book to show that it throws reasonable doubts on the potential of the PhytoFarm concept or on the other figures shown in the posting. Otherwise the readers don’t even know for sure whether you disagree with one or the other view point. Even “he-said, she-said” arguments don’t carry much weight if you don’t explain in comparable detail that what she said contradicts the detail of the information he stated. Surely you can do better than to direct readers to read “at least the last half” of a book without telling them at least what they should be looking for and why, unless, of course, you are not even close in your mind to what it is you are objecting to. Otherwise it would seem that the last two sentences in the last paragraph of the posting you responded to describe you fairly well. It is up to you to improve on that impression. Perhaps I can do a little better than you did about the book with which you try to refute optimistic and substantiated views about the ability of our planet to support a thriving and growing population. “In Search of Utopia” is truly and unabashedly a science-fiction book: <blockquote>Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet’s problems–global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2025 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty-five year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world’s excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet’s most pressing problem…. http://andgulliverreturns.info</blockquote> Well, the book should not be considered science fiction after all. It seems that it more correctly should be assigned to the category “science fantasy”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy I find in reading those sites that say that population problems are a myth that their evidence is very sparse and inconclusive. Recently I read Book 1 of the free e-book series “In Search of Utopia” (http://andgulliverreturns.info), it blasts their lack of evidence relative to their calling overpopulation a myth. The book, actually the last half of the book, takes on the skeptics in global warming, overpopulation, lack of fresh water, lack of food, and other areas where people deny the evidence. I strongly suggest that anyone wanting to see the whole picture read the book, at least the last half.

The outdated fertility replacement rate of 2.1 is also clarified.

Response by F4L: You need to either quote something from the book or at least summarize or paraphrase a point or two made in the book to show that it throws reasonable doubts on the potential of the PhytoFarm concept or on the other figures shown in the posting. Otherwise the readers don’t even know for sure whether you disagree with one or the other view point.

Even “he-said, she-said” arguments don’t carry much weight if you don’t explain in comparable detail that what she said contradicts the detail of the information he stated.

Surely you can do better than to direct readers to read “at least the last half” of a book without telling them at least what they should be looking for and why, unless, of course, you are not even close in your mind to what it is you are objecting to.

Otherwise it would seem that the last two sentences in the last paragraph of the posting you responded to describe you fairly well. It is up to you to improve on that impression.

Perhaps I can do a little better than you did about the book with which you try to refute optimistic and substantiated views about the ability of our planet to support a thriving and growing population.

“In Search of Utopia” is truly and unabashedly a science-fiction book:

Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet’s problems–global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars.

In the year 2025 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty-five year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world’s excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet’s most pressing problem…. http://andgulliverreturns.info

Well, the book should not be considered science fiction after all. It seems that it more correctly should be assigned to the category “science fantasy”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy

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