Comments on: Is the earth full?

By: Craig Payne

Craig Payne — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:00:33 +0000

I am not a doomsayer. But for Christians at least, there are two practical steps we can take that are easy, healthful, and morally good on several levels:

(1) We need to eat less. Specifically, we need to eat less meat. Even more specifically, we need to eat less pork. Visit a modern pig factory if you want some incentive.

(2) Why do many Christians seem to think that looking at alternative fuel sources is anti-Christian? Surely by now use of fossil fuels should have gone the way of use of whale oil to light the house.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:12:34 +0000

There’s good reason to believe that fears over excessive population growth and the drain on our natural resources are overblown or unfounded. See chapter 8 of Jay Richards’ Money, Greed, God. Richards discusses, among other things, the mitigating factors of human creativity/ingenuity and the increasing costliness of scarce resources as an incentive to pursue/develop alternatives.

By: Albert

Albert — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:44:02 +0000

Tried posting a comment, but I think it had too many links :(

By: Steve Billingsley

Steve Billingsley — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:41:20 +0000

This is Thomas Malthus, part 100.
The presence of Thomas Friedman in this discussion is also a non-starter. It’s good to see that he took a break from his weekly love songs to China (and their oh-so-efficient authoritarianism) to write about something else that he can show his complete banality about.

By: R Hampton

R Hampton — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:19:55 +0000

It’s the same type of problem that we have with federal spending in the U.S. (Social Security et. al.) — the status quo is not sustainable. So the longer we wait, the fewer our options and the harder our choices will be. Still, some are not convinced the problem is as severe as is claimed, and some simply don’t care.