One of the members of the list shared a link to a great movie called "Home." This 90+ minute minute movie is definitely worth watching — it puts the concepts of "life" and "Earth" into perspective. If evolution scares you, don't watch it.
A thanks to another subscriber on WarSocialism who has allowed me to reprint the passage below. This is in response to a movie review on the "Age of Stupid," which was shown at select theaters around the country on Monday. Unfortunately, I was unable to see it here in metro Atlanta because of closed and damaged roads caused by the flood — a flood that was exacerbated by global warming and all the pavement and rooftops. Are we really THAT stupid to create conditions for massive flooding? Oh yes we are!
From a colleague, who wishes to remain anonymous:
Age of the stupid is right. The age of human population overshoot is here. Though no one wants to believe it, let alone acknowledge it. One has to wonder: a minority believes in evolution. Fewer believe in climate change. Fewer still believe that overpopulation is a problem, or that it is critical. Even fewer than that believe that there is a critical energy problem, or have even heard of peak oil. Then there are the few of us here that comprehend the consequences of all of these issues combined.
I am beginning to think that maybe 1% of us actually understand it all and put it all together. I was talking to a very smart lawyer friend of mine a while back, and she was of the opinion that we will solve all these issues and problems... tomorrow. I cannot get it into her head that engineering 'solutions' typically beget more problems than they solve. In other words, save a starving or diseased child today so that he or she reproduces, and then you have to feed and save the set of the starving kid and parent after that.
We are up against a cultural, governmental, religious and social wall on these issues. No one wants to even hint at limiting the population, or even leveling it off. Not in any way, shape or form. The opposite is more true; there are armies of fanatical people out there trying to ban all types of birth control and all types of abortion. Seemingly according to 99% of the religious institutions in the U.S. today, it is our DUTY to reproduce. We are evil to even think about abortion and birth control.
Abortion est malum! ...so we must follow the biological path of the lemmings.
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