Comments on: Xingu: A sea of forest surrounded by agribusiness

By: daniel lucio

daniel lucio — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:37:15 +0000

i agree with margo and luke. it is rather heinous, heavy handed and shortsighted to say that overpopulation is the source of our problems and to wish for forced sterilization. we were having problems long before the population reached 6 billion. the roots of the problem lie in a worldview based on control, violence, and domination. if we are able to undercut those problems, there’s no telling how many people the earth can abundantly sustain. un outro mundo e possivel!

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:07:33 +0000

It’s true; there’s less of a problem with the total amount of resources than there is with the distribution of those resources. Addressing distribution is more crucial than addressing population.

By: Margo

Margo — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:26:54 +0000

I can’t believe someone would suggest mandatory sterilization and birth control as a means to control unethical multinational corporations.
I think that we need to be realistic. Historically many civilizations and countries have produced their own foods locally. I have just returned from Europe and most of the countries I visited still use old family traditional methods of producing and distributing their foods. Local production on a small scale ensures quality and ethical practices.
If there were only 100 people on the earth, one or two of them would kill animals for fun or abuse the environment for his own profit. The others would have to stop them.
Since 80% of the wealth is in the hands of 1% of the population than some of the rest of us will have to stop them. Further to this, since world trade, world bank, and multi-national corporations are now in control of most of the politicians the job is even harder. Let’s focus on the offenders.

By: ScarletDove

ScarletDove — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:33:27 +0000

I couldn’t agree more that the major problem of this earth is overpopulation. Birth control and/or sterilization must become mandatory worldwide. This earth cannot maintain massive human growth with the destruction of ecosystems and wildlife just to provide food. Food shortages, high prices, abuse, and all the crime and fraud that goes along with making a buck will increase. Only humans create such destruction.

By: NIcole

NIcole — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:19:43 +0000

Agriculture may be more likely to be at the of birthplace of overpopulation issues. I as a person wish the avenues to finding the other ways of sustaining myself were open, or at least not being systematicly destroyed. This disturbing global expermental attempt at monoculture through the destruction of these forest and other lands whiffs of the stench intergenerational genocide. Many areas are experiencing the later effects of this businesses, ex. long grass prarie being one of the most endangered northern continental ecosystems. The rainforest is such a gem…an artistry of nature…we’ve already overstepped ourselves…the solution is not sold in stores

By: neylan

neylan — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:01:35 +0000

please send me more information about this issue. I produce and present a national show about nuclear peace and sustainability issues in Australia, and am interested in discussing some of these issues with media contacts in Aus if you have any? We have a lot of issues with Gunns Ltd down in Tasmania in Aus, and also problems with excessive logging in Far East Gippsland in Victoria. I hope we will protect these amazing places as soon as possible.

By: phillip lambro

phillip lambro — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:33:37 +0000

We must have mandatory birth control world wide now; everyday there are well over 250,000 births on planet earth and this overpopulation is at the core of all of our problems.