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Here’s what Santa Monica (CA)-based environmentalist Zan Dubin wrote to the editor of the Los Angeles Time in response to an article on income and childbearing, which includes: “What largely remains overlooked, however, is the abject failure of America’s political elite to protect the country’s middle-class standard of living.”

Zan responds:
I was glad to see a prominent article giving voice to those who choose to be child-free.
However, falling birthrates were described as a negative trend because of economic concerns. Why not quote scientists or environmentalists who have different concerns or see the upside to this complex situation?
The title of this 2022 study in the journal Biological Conservation says it all: “Overpopulation is a major cause of biodiversity loss and smaller human populations are necessary to preserve what is left.”
In a March 2023 article in Scientific American, Harvard professor Naomi Oreskes approvingly quotes the Royal Society: “More people ‘has meant that ever more natural habitat is being used for agriculture, mining, industrial infrastructure and urban areas.’ ”
In a 2013 interview, David Attenborough said, “All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people, and harder — and ultimately impossible — to solve with ever more people.”

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How Much Does America Mean to Trump?

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What his remaining supporters don’t (or refuse to) understand about Trump is that items like “250 years of democracy” don’t mean a goddamn thing to him.

He’d have sold his mother to the devil for another five minutes of power.

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American Poorer and Less Safe

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Without doubt, Americans’ financial and physical security is important.

But what about our moral wellbeing?  We’re a pariah nation, led by a criminal sociopath.

American Poorer and Less Safe

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CO2 Levels and Climate Change

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To answer the question posed here from a reader:

I do.  I have a degree in physics.  Before that, I graduated from high school.

Obviously, there are scientifically illiterate people all around the country who know less about the atmosphere than my neighbor’s dog, but I’m not sure how that impacts the matter.

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