Wednesday, December 26, 2007

A word from an Ecology Professor!

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Sorry Navdeep, I couldn't add anything on this, life has been too busy! But I am enclosing a web copy of the editorial that I recently w...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Human Population

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We all know that the human population has been increasing at a rapid rate and there seems as if it is not going to slow down. We are...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

hello everybody

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A big issue in the world today is intense human population growth. reasons for this recent, rapid, boom is due to expansion of agriculture a...
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Dying Biodiversity

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We are killing everything on the planet and don’t even realize that we are doing this. The problem is getting worse because the population i...

Population growth

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Population growth has always been increasing, but lately the growth has become outrageous. Our planet population is roughly 6 billion. S...

Essentially, Humans ruin everything...

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So, everyone knows that the human population is increasing exponentially. Right now, the population is already at an unstable 6.6 billion, a...
Monday, December 17, 2007

economics as a solution

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There are many problems that plague our planet today. However, I find that environmental activists have greatly exagerrated many of the prob...
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Duh!

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Of course humans kill animals without thought, even animals kill animals without thinking about the consequences ... they are hungry. Ok, ...
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The Human Population is a mess!!!!

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Humans believe since their the smartest species on the planet they can destroy it. This sort of thinking is the one that got us to this disa...

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I think that humans are abusing their natural powers. We are the smartest species, and yet we are mindlessly popping out kids and killing an...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Ummmmmm....

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Population has shockingly increased in the past few decades and that is due to the massive birth rates in some of the countries in the world...
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It's not too late, or is it?

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Prevention is definitely the way to go, we've already lost a lot and we must start looking into preventing further losses. Invasive spe...
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Who's the coolest guy you all know? Daniel B!

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Maintaining biodiversity is a huge feat that doesn't seem possible. My favorite animal, the panda bear, is an endangered animal that is...
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We Need to Act Now

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The biodiversity of the planet has been decreasing for a number of years, but recently the decrease has become enormous. We are losing more ...

brining too many unprovided people into the world

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Okay maybe it isn't right for me to pick on developing countries because I know its our fault too, but I think parents in developing cou...

Live and Let Live

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I completely agree with Dr. Singh's idea of "live and let live". I don't think there's a whole lot we can do about th...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

what's up with that?

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The human population has obviously increased out of control over the past century or so. Of course, the reasons are apparent in our everyday...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Our responsibility as humans.

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We [humans], probably the most intelligent creatures ever to walk the earth, have a moral responsibility to look after and take care of the ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

not so likely...

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Ok I'm not trying to say that the world has no hope, but lets just think about this. How hard is it for teacher to get a class of 1st gr...
Sunday, December 9, 2007

The dinosaurs went extinct for this???

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byMore and more animals are going extinct because we "feel like it"??? I'm sorry, but what makes humans so important? Because ...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

we're all gonna die!!!!*gasp*

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We can easily just ignore the problem and just say, "Whatever it doesn't matter we won't miss them" but what about future ...
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Human Population Acting Like Rabbits?

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Human Population Growth is estimated to reach about 9 billion by the year 2050. Although human population is expected to grow this high ther...
Sunday, December 2, 2007

Monoculture!!

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The speed at which we are destroying the biodiversity on this planet is going to leave us alone pretty soon! The unprecedented growth of hu...
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Sunday, November 25, 2007

MY way or the DIE-WAY!

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As alluded to by my title, there are two possible solutions to saving this planet. There is way number one (MY-WAY) and way number two, the...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

A Pledge!!

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Our planet is facing some serious issues that are in the public eye. We are worried about global warming, air pollution, water pollution, oz...
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overpopulation to the maxxx

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It is fact that all the contributers to this blog are aware of the dangers and problems facing the world with overpopulation, and in some ca...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

Time for a poll:

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Ok guys. Let's get some interaction going on here. Rukayat posted a thread earlier that I enjoyed. Here's an excerpt from my comment...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Culprit

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I think the root cause to the problem of population explosion is the 'poverty' which the developing countries are facing today. Pove...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

the syd solution

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Okay, Dr. Sighn, if you say my comment is wrong, you're going to be #1 on MY hate list. :-) Now, Earth is a huge planet. Like really, re...
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The Girl Child

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The single most important factor in the human population is the girl child. Countries like India and China cannot claim to have a better st...
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Desire for the male child etc.

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Sean you are right! - Desire for the male child in many developing countries including India is one of the main reasons for adding more and ...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

A World of Problems

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"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." - George Orwell We are current...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Yea or Nay?

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Several students in prior blogs have offered statistics as to how much money is spent across the world in different aspects of life, with so...
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Is there anything we can really do?

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So, I have to agree with the majority that humans are ruining the planet. Our population is out of balance in basically every country, wheth...
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There is little that can be done.

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I do not think that there is anything we can do now to stop our increasing population and save the world from destruction. We cannot simply ...
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Overpopulation

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I think the desire for more children in under developed countries is more culture then anything. My family is from Egypt and the man is supp...

Saving the World?

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The world as we know it is coming to an end. It is depressing, indeed. As you all know, I'm not talking about the kind of ending in mo...
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Mockery

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In my last post I mentioned that taking pictures in Indian slums is a gut-wrenching experience, most of the times. But sometimes you find m...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

The sad truth...

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It is so true that we are creating this inconvenient population explosion in our world as we know it. Humans consume so much and we continue...

But do we have enough time?

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Personally, I think that many countries are learning from their overpopulation mistakes. China, over time, has finally started to see a red...

Overpopulation

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Human overpopulation is a growing concern, but I aslo agree that human ingenuity will prevail. Rather than simply waiting to die, humans co...
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What is the fix?

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I think we need to implement multiple strategies for differently developed countries. The developing countries generally have a population ...
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Personal Observations about China

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So the human population is growing exponentially and the earth's natural resources are being depleted; what's the big deal? Human in...
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All This Talk About Population

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All this talk about population growth and the future population of the world is very eye opening. Many high school students these days are a...

*A few statistics.

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I found this site on google. http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp My favorite highlight: Global spending on education: $6 bill...
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how to save the planet

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even tho i don't think a fast way to save the planet exists with out killing people we could do more subtle things to save it in the mea...
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One Planet. 6 Billion People.

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Humans were given one planet to survive on, earth. We are taking advantage of its resources and overpopulating its environment. There are ot...
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We ArE kIlLiNg ThE pLaNeT

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All of the earth's nonrenewable resources are being used up. But why is this happening? The answer is population and it is getting worse...
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Humans ingnore the fact that were harming our own evironment!!!

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I believe we could make a difference in our planet, and maybe perhaps better our standards of living. Theres one problem though; while some ...

So what's the deal with this population growth??

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I don't know about you, but I don't want to die by my lungs giving out because of the carbon dioxide ridden air. Dying from natural ...
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Piercing Eyes!

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Whenever I go to India, my favourite past time is to shoot pictures. Of course I have a mind set for "animal" and "nature...
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THE POPULATION

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The world's population is out of control. In some areas population growth is slowing too much, while in most areas the populations are ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Move them!

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I think it is so sad that there is such an imbalance on Earth. In the video we watched, we saw that places in Japan are just as under-popula...
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The Power of Prayer

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For those of you who believe that the world is in danger, you have been sadly mislead. The world may appear to be in trouble but together, w...
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Eh, I think we are all doomed!

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The world is already way too overpopulated and it is only going to exponentially grow. There is nothing that can be done, its too late. The ...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Daniel knows how to save the world.

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There are many things we can do to save the world but I think one of the important things we have realize in the world is how much waste tha...

A Perfect Solution

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Alright, for all you people that are worried that we are destroying the earth, I have a very simple solution that will put an end to this pr...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Ignored Horror

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I think all of us are living in a dazed reality, thinking that nothing is wrong with this planet and nothing is wrong with us. We have books...