Comments on: The elephant in the room: Overpopulation http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/ Learn it. Do it. Save it. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:59:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Hoang http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-31 Hoang Tue, 13 May 2008 17:04:53 +0000 http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-31 Hello Jane, Just like you, I'm doing a live-the-solution project at my site and I do like your e-book a lot! That's really cool thing you did for all of us. I'm going to translate your e-book into Vietnamese and hopefully I can pass the e-book across 84 millions Vietnamese people :) I want to ask for your permission about that idea, and would you give me some advices as well? Hello Jane,
Just like you, I’m doing a live-the-solution project at my site and I do like your e-book a lot! That’s really cool thing you did for all of us. I’m going to translate your e-book into Vietnamese and hopefully I can pass the e-book across 84 millions Vietnamese people :)
I want to ask for your permission about that idea, and would you give me some advices as well?

]]> By: Sandy http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-29 Sandy Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:38:30 +0000 http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-29 Wonder when the average American is going to get this message? Wonder when the average American is going to get this message?

]]> By: Kiashu http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-28 Kiashu Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:32:13 +0000 http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-28 So if I anonymously say "2 + 2 = 4" you'll doubt it? Words are true or false regardless of who's saying them. I realise that in your field of marketing there's an idea of "branding", of things having a "name" which has a good or bad perception attached to it, but I don't really give a damn about that, because I'm not selling anything or trying to change the world. I'm just expressing myself, exchanging ideas with people, and trying to change myself. But when I want advice on selling stuff, I'll be sure to ask you. So if I anonymously say “2 + 2 = 4″ you’ll doubt it?

Words are true or false regardless of who’s saying them. I realise that in your field of marketing there’s an idea of “branding”, of things having a “name” which has a good or bad perception attached to it, but I don’t really give a damn about that, because I’m not selling anything or trying to change the world. I’m just expressing myself, exchanging ideas with people, and trying to change myself.

But when I want advice on selling stuff, I’ll be sure to ask you.

]]> By: Glenn http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-27 Glenn Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:21:25 +0000 http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-27 Jane, the Chinese translation is a really positive development, hope other translations follow. Kiashu, a suggestion, be upfront about who you are rather than trying to be anonymous. Why should anyone believe anything you say when you aren't prepared to put your name to it? Jane, the Chinese translation is a really positive development, hope other translations follow.

Kiashu, a suggestion, be upfront about who you are rather than trying to be anonymous. Why should anyone believe anything you say when you aren’t prepared to put your name to it?

]]> By: Kiashu http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-26 Kiashu Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:20:39 +0000 http://live-the-solution.com/blog/the-elephant-in-the-room-overpopulation/#comment-26 Man, this silly topic never seems to die. India has 17% of the world's population and uses 8% of its resources. The USA has 4.5% of the world's population and uses 25% of the world's resources. Thus, the world could handle about 15 billion Indians, but could only handle 1.2 billion Americans. Put another way, taken from <a href="http://greenwithagun.blogspot.com/2007/12/its-not-how-big-it-is-its-what-you-do.html" rel="nofollow">my recent discussion of the issue</a>, just the US and Australia together make up 23.4% of all greenhouse gas emissions; this is more than more than enough to cause "catastrophic" climate change - more than 2C eventual warming. <b>5% of the world's population could cause catastrophic climate change all by themselves</b>. So is the problem really population, or is it really lifestyle? Amazingly, Westerners - the ones living the high-consumption, high-waste lifestyles - say that the problem is population. Or you could consider that the average Westerner can <a href="http://greenwithagun.blogspot.com/2007/12/inconvenient-sacrifice-of-not-polluting.html" rel="nofollow">drop by 70% their personal contribution to climate change</a> <i>tomorrow</i>, which would be 35% of all emissions; we cannot reduce population by 35% tomorrow without nuclear weapons. The elephant in the room is a fat Westerner. Man, this silly topic never seems to die.

India has 17% of the world’s population and uses 8% of its resources. The USA has 4.5% of the world’s population and uses 25% of the world’s resources.

Thus, the world could handle about 15 billion Indians, but could only handle 1.2 billion Americans.

Put another way, taken from my recent discussion of the issue, just the US and Australia together make up 23.4% of all greenhouse gas emissions; this is more than more than enough to cause “catastrophic” climate change - more than 2C eventual warming.

5% of the world’s population could cause catastrophic climate change all by themselves.

So is the problem really population, or is it really lifestyle? Amazingly, Westerners - the ones living the high-consumption, high-waste lifestyles - say that the problem is population.

Or you could consider that the average Westerner can drop by 70% their personal contribution to climate change tomorrow, which would be 35% of all emissions; we cannot reduce population by 35% tomorrow without nuclear weapons.

The elephant in the room is a fat Westerner.

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