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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Tchocky
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6974475.stm
The Pope is calling for us to care for the planet.
Maybe he could help out by changing the Catholic Church's position on condoms, which would combat population growth.
Solar panels on the Vatican are fine, but there's a lot more he could be doing.
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100% agreement there. No energy saving/carbon reduction scheme is going to work as long as population growth remains unchecked. |
That is all fine and dandy to keep the population stable, but the point is that there are too many people already, as Cpt. Scribb points out.
What needs to be changed is the position towards suicide. We need to start looking at suicide and euthanasia in a new light, and we need to remove our prejudice against the Nazi recycle of dead bodies. If people started suiciding more and their corpses were put to a good use we would depend less on fossil fuels, and since it would all be voluntary, there would be nothing wrong with it.