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arenean

(456 posts) Fri Jan 25, 2013, 10:26 AM Jan 2013

Humans are a 'plague on Earth': Sir David Attenborough

Humans are a 'plague on Earth': Sir David Attenborough warns that negative effects of population growth will come home to roost

From The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/humans-are-a-plague-on-earth-sir-david-attenborough-warns-that-negative-effects-of-population-growth-will-come-home-to-roost-8461570.html

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Humans are a 'plague on Earth': Sir David Attenborough (Original Post) arenean Jan 2013 OP

Really like David Attenborough. longship Jan 2013 #1

Even some posters on this Progressive board attack anyone supporting limits to population growth. The Stranger Jan 2013 #2

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. Really like David Attenborough.

Reply to arenean (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2013, 10:55 AM

Jan 2013

He very well may be correct about human population.

The Stranger

(11,297 posts)

2. Even some posters on this Progressive board attack anyone supporting limits to population growth.

Reply to arenean (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2013, 05:23 PM

Jan 2013

There is some kind of bizarre pseudo-religious notion that humans must keep reproducing, even in the face of reason and evidence that overpopulation will lead to further environmental and economic disaster.

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