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    Bob Geldof Tells Arabs: Stop Breeding Or Nature Will Intervene

    Jurriaan Maessen
    Infowars.com
    March 17, 2012

    At the second Gulf Intelligence Food Security Forum held on March 16 in the United Arab Emirates, self-proclaimed global citizen “sir” Bob Geldof told his audience in so many words they should stop having children or nature would do it for them.

    “They either find a cultural way to make this acceptable or they’re going to have an anthropogenic critical event”, Geldof told a reporter after the event.

    “I think the tipping point has been reached”, Geldof went on to say. “There can’t be more people on earth than we can feed.”



    Rehashing the old Malthusian mantra that the earth compensates for what he considers to be excess humans, Geldof argues here for strict measures to halt population growth or else…

    In response, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Emirates, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak fired back by saying:

    “It’s not entirely clear to me that the way to succeed is to stop having children. They are the future.”


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    This is a pretty strange way to promote a message , at the same time , without some major agricultural improvements , I suppose there are many , many arid places in the world that do not have the ability to feed themselves.

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    It just seems like common sense to me if you are educated about the world, environmental relationships, and cause and effect. Having two children is enough. I'd say the majority of people in the world are short-sighted though and on top of that contraception isn't available to them or it is social heresy based on their religious views.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    This is a pretty strange way to promote a message , at the same time , without some major agricultural improvements , I suppose there are many , many arid places in the world that do not have the ability to feed themselves.
    I don't suppose it would take much for a large number to starve due to some type of natural event, but I doubt them breeding is going to have any effect on whether or not said natural event happens.

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    Egypt has already populated themselves well beyond the food they can produce. Having a crapload of people in an arid desert is not a smart idea, Malthusian or not. It makes you dependent on outsiders for your food, which means you are essentially a slave.

    I view libertarianism as a way to enforce good reproductive discipline - if you cannot afford children, don't have them. This effectively reduces birth rates without government control.
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    Well unless they build cyborgs, the only way to build an army is to have lots of kids. Seems like in Survival 101, the Arabs are on the right track.
    "Your mother's dead, before long I'll be dead, and you...and your brother and your sister and all of her children, all of us dead, all of us..rotting in the ground. It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor, but family." - Tywin Lannister


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    Quote Originally Posted by ZenBowman View Post
    Egypt has already populated themselves well beyond the food they can produce. Having a crapload of people in an arid desert is not a smart idea, Malthusian or not. It makes you dependent on outsiders for your food, which means you are essentially a slave.

    I view libertarianism as a way to enforce good reproductive discipline - if you cannot afford children, don't have them. This effectively reduces birth rates without government control.
    Egypt is a welfare state that depends on others to feed them , these same others share no common views with the Egyptians . So , yes , you gave a good example.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cowlesy View Post
    Well unless they build cyborgs, the only way to build an army is to have lots of kids. Seems like in Survival 101, the Arabs are on the right track.
    Well , I guess that could be plan B , build an Army and take the needed resources from others ? ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Well , I guess that could be plan B , build an Army and take the needed resources from others ? ....
    Meh, if history is any judge. It seems that people tend to fight over resources.
    "Your mother's dead, before long I'll be dead, and you...and your brother and your sister and all of her children, all of us dead, all of us..rotting in the ground. It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor, but family." - Tywin Lannister


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cowlesy View Post
    Meh, if history is any judge. It seems that people tend to fight over resources.
    I guess it would be foolish to look for that to change ?

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