Oh no she di'n't! Oh, yes she did. She went there.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

BACKGROUND: NASA funds a study that justifies Proglodytes getting their authoritarian, communist freak on:

YankeyMCC (8,363 posts)

NASA: Industrial civilization headed for ‘irreversible collapse’
   
Hopelessness: These factors can lead to collapse when they converge to generate two crucial social features: “the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity”; and “the economic stratification of society into Elites and Masses (or “Commoners”) ” These social phenomena have played “a central role in the character or in the process of the collapse,” in all such cases over “the last five thousand years.”

Hope: “Collapse can be avoided and population can reach equilibrium if the per capita rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/14/nasa-industrial-civilization-headed-for-irreversible-collapse/

Now we see what will replace global warming.

Any-hoo...

That starts the usual:

warrior1 (11,418 posts)

2. Zero population growth

TRANSLATION: Acculturate our children to be homosexuals and abortions those who slip through and become pregnant.

truebluegreen (4,376 posts)

7. Unfortunately, we need a massive reduction in population
 
and that is unlikely to be voluntary or pretty.

And Blanche Splanchnik weighs in.

Those familiar with Blanche will recall she is vehemently, viscerally anti-motherhood.

This bitter old crone describes Mother's Day as, and I quote, "mawkish."

So, apparently, she hated her mother and nobody wants to put their dick into her.

Well, ol' Blanche loves her so anti-babying:

BlancheSplanchnik (9,866 posts)

15. truth.
 
Infinitely fertile, invasive species on a finite planet.....

TRANSLATION: She acknowledges it will have to be compulsory and tyrannical and she's okay with that.

Now, it should be noted she has a picture in her signature line.



It is a picture of the bitter old crone holding a small dog.

Presumably Blanche is the one on the left but one can never be truly certain where Proglodytes are involved.

It's curious because the bitter old crone will leap at any chance to condemn others for seeking emotional validation in children. She's really rather combative and disgusting about it. Yet, here she is investing emotionally in a small dog.

But then that draws this response:

Nuclear Unicorn (10,306 posts)

21. Small dogs are useless eaters.
 
Just sayin'

As Frank says...

Oh my.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024670516

[Freeper]

If we need a reduction in population repeal Obamacare, cut out all welfare and social programs, problem solved.

[JohnnyReb]

Small dogs are useless eaters.... ....Obama snack food.

[DLR Pyro]

truebluegreen (4,376 posts)

7. Unfortunately, we need a massive reduction in population

Hey Dummy,  Change starts with you

[miskie]

Hey Dummy,  Change starts with you

That's a scary picture to most DUmmies. But they could start with this.

http://www.castrator.com/eze_castrator_instructions.htm

[JohnnyReb]

That's a scary picture to most DUmmies. But they could start with this.

http://www.castrator.com/eze_castrator_instructions.htm

The rubber bands we used way back when wasn't that complicated to apply.

It's DUmmie wymins that need to get fixed, men don't have babies. They might cause them but they don't have them and it would only take one rogue DUmmie man to ruin the whole plan.

[Carl]

Can someone explain how NASA is involved in something like this?

Oh,I get it,along with the gloBULL warming hoax they are trying to position themselves for more funding.

[Mr Mannn]

Star Member librechik (25,645 posts)
22. If you read the article, it's not natural catastrophes or starvation that ends us, repeatedly

It's failure to control the overconsumption of the Elites. Every time. There are always resources, and they get them and everybody else dies. Over and over.

Occupy has the same solution for everything... 

[98ZJUSMC]

Can someone explain how NASA is involved in something like this?

Muslim outreach.

[jukin]

I will volunteer to whittle down the population of the parasite class. I won't lose a wink of sleep over it either. Not a wink.

[thundley4]

Why are the DUmmies so racist?  Surely they realize that Caucasians aren't even breeding at a self sustaining level and that the large increases in population is coming from minorities.

[Delmar]

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center must have had some money burning a hole in its pocket to sponsor this boondoggle.  Couldn't DUmmy YankeyMCC find an article on this subject by an American commie?  He had to go this foreigner Nafeez Ahmed?  Nafeez Ahmed spells civilization like this: civilisation.    Here's another gem from the linked article:

The fall of the Roman Empire, and the equally (if not more) advanced Han, Mauryan, and Gupta Empires, as well as so many advanced Mesopotamian Empires, are all testimony to the fact that advanced, sophisticated, complex, and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent.

The equally (if not more) advanced Han, Mauryan, and Gupta Empires?  Out of the first four empires mentioned, the Roman empire was the one I didn't have to google to find out what the hell it was.

Although the study is largely theoretical, a number of other more empirically-focused studies – by KPMG and the UK Government Office of Science for instance – have warned that the convergence of food, water and energy crises could create a ‘perfect storm’ within about fifteen years. But these ‘business as usual’ forecasts could be very conservative.

A 15 year tipping point.  It might not be too late.  All we have to do is turn the running of the world over to top minds like Nafeez Ahmed.

[Mr Mannn]

interesting exchange...

Countdown_3_2_1 (851 posts)
26. Not going to happen in a free society.

Only China has been able to do anything like this and only with draconian laws and brutal tactics.

A better bet is to start a colony on Mars. Move out to space and open homes for the masses.
>> Humanity was meant to expand and colonize new frontiers, not stagnate in one place. Heck, I support undersea colonies.

I really cannot see people accepting the China policy by choice. The poorest peoples on earth see children as their only hope for care in their old age-they won't stop breeding. Neither will people used to freedom (like in the industrial world). Christians, Jews, and Muslims will all reject this. You're fighting against human nature.

Apart from China's one child laws, how would anyone "reduce" the population? Withhold medicine to the sick? Release a genetically modified virus? Bloody purges?
Now we are stepping into a world of genocidal crimes. Who wants to be a part of that?

and the answer:

Star Member truebluegreen (4,382 posts)
29. I didn't say a word about policy, in a free society or out of it.

I think it has already gotten to the point where it is out of anyone's hands. Unless we include Mother Nature.

But fyi, the best method for controlling the population? Educating and empowering women. Iran--not a free society I grant you--after the revolution in '79 was promptly attacked by Iraq (can't imagine who might have encouraged that behavior ). The ayatollah encouraged all patriotic women to get pregnant and give birth to a big new army for the future.

But the war ended and they realized that they had a problem: a whole bunch of young men growing up--the demographic most likely to cause civil unrest--without an economy to support them. Check out what happened in Romania about 20 years after Ceausescu criminalized abortion (1967) and starting insisting women bear at least 4 children. Check out also the origins and aims of the GI Bill after WWII: giving all those returning men something to do before they simply flooded the labor markets.

Iran's rulers understood that they had to put the brakes on, and they did it by educating women on what it takes to feed, clothe and raise children; by providing (not mandating) free birth control; they "suggested" that two children were enough, by providing state assistance for two children, but not for more than two.... Iran has achieved a steady-state population without draconian measures that need to be enforced.

But of course, nothing is forever and now they are trying to reverse the trend: encouraging women to stay home and have more children etc. Who knows if it will work, but apparently delusions about unlimited resources are not confined to the United States.

1) Killing babies: it is the default answer to all liberal questions.

2) Note: the enlightened tyranny of Iran is the shining example here. Liberals always gravitate toward dictators. To them, freedom is the alien concept.

[thundley4]

>> Humanity was meant to expand and colonize new frontiers, not stagnate in one place. Heck, I support undersea colonies.

Then stop bitching about the Europeans taming the savages they found in the new world and colonizing America.

[DumbAss Tanker]

truebluegreen (4,376 posts)

7. Unfortunately, we need a massive reduction in population
 
and that is unlikely to be voluntary or pretty.

After you.

[fatboy]

And Blanche Splanchnik weighs in.

Those familiar with Blanche will recall she is vehemently, viscerally anti-motherhood.

This bitter old crone describes Mother's Day as, and I quote, "mawkish."

So, apparently, she hated her mother and nobody wants to put their dick into her.

Well, ol' Blanche loves her so anti-babying:

Crazy Blanche. Crazy people think Blanche is....well....crazy.

[Vagabond]

I thought NASA was supposed to be finding cheap ways of getting to space?  We give them millions of dollars and get some bullshit college paper out of the deal?  We've been had.  No wonder we don't have a space program.

[delilahmused]

I thought NASA was supposed to be finding cheap ways of getting to space?  We give them millions of dollars and get some bullshit college paper out of the deal?  We've been had.  No wonder we don't have a space program.

I thought they'd become the new Muslim outreach branch of the government.

Cindie