To Mankind.

The Issue of Over-Population has become Critical.

Planet Earth and its inhabitants are suffering from diverse ills caused singularly and exclusively by man himself. These already existing ills, however, will continue to proliferate until finally everything completely deteriorates.

The Earth’s population is plagued by

By Richard Ingham  –  Wed Nov 18, 2009

"PARIS (AFP) – Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report published on Wednesday that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.

"Slower population growth... would help build social resilience to climate change's impacts and would contribute to a

By Professor Emeritus Albert A. Bartlett, Chair of Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder.

A population growth rate less than or equal to zero and declining rates of consumption of resources are a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for a sustainable society.

Unsustainability will be the certain result of any program of development, that does not plan the achievement of zero (or a period of negative) growth of populations and of rates of consumption of resources.  This is true even if the program is said to be sustainable.

The research and regulation programs of governmental agencies that

In her book, "Titanic", author Stephanie Barcszewski described the exchange between Captain John Smith and the ship's designer Thomas Andrew just over ten minutes after the collision with the lethal iceberg.

"Smith asked Andrews how long the Titanic had left and Andrews did some quick calculations: An hour and a half, possibly two. Not much longer." That quick calculation was not far off. The ship sank two hours and forty minutes after it hit the iceberg, or roughly two hours and twenty minutes after Andrews made that grim pronouncement.

As there was no PA system on board the ship, Captain Smith issued immediate instructions to his crew to have passengers board the lifeboats, beginning with 1st class passengers of course. The Titanic was, after all, a microcosm of Edwardian society and 70% of third class people never saw a lifeboat that night. But then again, 40% in 1st class did not survive either, and I suspect that is a much lower percentage than that will perish in the imminent sinking of RMS Affluent Society. Rich ticket-holders will evidently launch off the first lifeboats half empty because they don't believe in the fallibility of the ship.

But the point is, Captain John Smith sought an honest assessment of his ship's condition, accepted it, and took whatever action he could to mitigate the scale of the disaster.

Imagine however, if Bernie Segal, or some such guru of the self help industry, had been captain of the Titanic on the night of April 14, 1912. Assuming that he would have indeed ordered a damage report, rather than blithely persisted in a state of denial by thinking happy thoughts, would he have accepted it? I rather doubt it. Here would be the screenplay:

Thomas Andrews: "Captain Segal, Sir, the front six bulkheads have risen 14 feet in just ten minutes and at this rate of water intake the weight will carry the ship down within two hours."

Captain Segal: "The fate of this ship will be determined by

Earth 'entering new age of geological time'

The Earth has entered a new age of geological time – the epoch of new man, scientists claim.

By Murray Wardrop
Published: 8:30AM GMT 27 Mar 2010
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/geology/7528264/Earth-entering-new-age-of-geological-time.html

Posted here at CFH by: J.Barreto Silva, on  July 8th, 2010

Humans have wrought such vast and unprecedented changes on the planet that we may be ushering in a new period of geological history.

Through pollution, population growth, urbanisation, travel, mining and use of fossil fuels we have altered the planet in ways which will be felt for millions of years, experts believe.

It is feared that the damage mankind has inflicted will lead to the sixth largest mass extinction in Earth’s history with thousands of plants and animals being wiped out.

The new epoch, called the Anthropocene – meaning new man – would be the first period of geological time shaped by the action of a single species.

Note: Additional comments by Dyson Devine will be found at the end of this translation

This is an authorised, unofficial translation by Vivienne Legg and Dyson Devine. It may contain errors.

EXCERPT FROM FIGU SPECIAL BULLETIN No. 51, January, 2010

Excerpt from the 481^st official contact report of October 14^th, 2009

Billy …But now a question regarding the oxygen collapse, respectively, the atmospheric collapse, on the planet Akart, of which you spoke on February 3rd of this year in the 476^th official contact conversation. What must I understand “oxygen collapse” and “atmospheric collapse” to mean?

Ptaah An oxygen collapse, respectively, an atmospheric collapse, arises as a result of a massive over-impregnation of the atmosphere by the molecule CO2,  which enters the atmosphere, as well as the oceans and other bodies of water, as well as the soil of the Earth, and radically alters the climate. An oxygen and atmospheric collapse would be

The human population doubled from 1 to 2 billion between the years 1800 and 1930 — an unparalleled event in the planet’s history. No large mammal had ever grown to such numbers or commandeered so many resources. The impact on North America’s native species was devastating:

• Driven extinct by hunters, the last eastern woodland bison was seen in West Virginia in 1825.
• Undulata delissea, a Hawaiian plant, was driven extinct in 1865 by domestic cattle.
• The beautiful Falls-of-the-Ohio scurfpea, which existed on a single island, was drowned by U.S. Dam No. 41 in Kentucky in 1881.
• The Whiteline topminnow was last seen Alabama in 1899, its spring habitat repeatedly pumped dry by the growing human population.
• The Culebra parrot was hunted and collected to extinction in Puerto Rico by 1899.
• The Rocky Mountain grasshopper was purposefully driven extinct — a bounty was even placed on its head — by 1903.
• Merriam’s elk was hunted to extinction in Arizona in 1906.
• The Tennessee riffleshell disappeared in 1930 due to pollution and dams.

The human population doubled again by

Sir David Attenborough has called for population restraint in all the nations of the world.

The population explosion in poor countries will contribute little to climate change and is a dangerous distraction from the main problem of over-consumption in rich nations, a study has found.

It challenges claims by leading environmentalists, including Sir David Attenborough and Jonathon Porritt, that strict birth control is needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The study concludes that spending billions of pounds of aid on contraception in the developing world will not benefit the climate because poor countries have such low emissions. It says that Britain and other Western countries should instead focus on reducing consumption of goods, services and energy among their own populations.

David Satterthwaite, of the International Institute for Environment and Development , a think-tank based in London, analysed changes in population and greenhouse gas emissions for all countries between 1980 and 2005.

He found that sub-Saharan Africa had 18.5 per cent of the world’s population growth and only 2.4 per cent of the growth in carbon dioxide emissions. The United States had 3.4 per cent of the world’s population growth but 12.6 per cent of the growth in carbon dioxide emissions.

Full Article - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6852853.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=3392178

Joint International Position Statement

1. The undersigned organisations recognise the following facts:

A.  Past population growth from one billion in 1800 to 2.5 billion in 1950 to 6.8 billion today, together with rising resource consumption per head, has already:  caused climate change, increasing pollution, rising sea levels and expanding deserts; and has been largely "funded" by rapidly depleting natural capital (finite resources such as fossil fuels, groundwater, minerals, soil fertility, forests, fisheries and biodiversity) rather than sustainable natural income

B. The capacity of the Earth is

The crucial and delicate issue of overpopulation has reached the mainstream media. Finally!

On a snowy Sunday afternoon, CNN indeed brought up overpopulation and the harmful effects it has on the sustainability of the planet and on humanity as a whole.

Mr. Jack Cafferty from CNN courageously made the case for population control and many viewers agreed with his analysis:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlcJoZyG2N4

May reason and wisdom indeed prevail.