tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310211473186833817.post88414137067530688..comments2023-09-29T01:11:21.275-07:00Comments on RUNAWAY HUMAN POPULATION - A Blog: The Popes as Mass MurderersHans Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263447827237674055noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310211473186833817.post-24938595336737169732009-03-23T12:13:00.000-07:002009-03-23T12:13:00.000-07:00When it comes to runaway human population, the pop...When it comes to runaway human population, the pope has got to be among the most powerful individuals on Earth. His pronouncements could have more immediate impact on either increasing or decreasing the size of the human population worldwide than any other individual world leader.<BR/><BR/>Despite all the complexities of modern life, it seems to me that unvarnished and unreflective support of three primary behaviors are governing the "way of life" of most people in our culture. These widely shared and consensually validiated behaviors literally drive unbridled growth of production capabilities, unrestrained per human consumption of resources borne of unchecked greed, and unbounded hubris rather than the achievement of a more adequate understanding of the "placement" of the human species within the natural order of living things. The leviathan scale and anticipated rise of these objective and subjective all-too-human tendencies could become patently unsustainable soon; whereas, setting limits on the increasing growth of uneconomic production, unhealthy overconsumption, unrestricted population numbers and unconscionable, objectively unjustifiable arrogance could lead the human community toward sustainable ways of living in the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com