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Old 03-23-2009, 03:08 PM   #5
alyscat
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Default Re: Obama Requests Info on Planetary Challenges

So, the CoR that Chopra and Williamson belong to (don't see Braden's name on the list) is the one with the social and cultural focus. The other two groups are the political one.

You know, I'm thinking that people like Chopra and Williamson probably get asked to join organizations frequently - and they're presented with agendas and group goals that probably sound like something they'd particularly want to espouse. They may not even attend a single meeting. But their names are on the letterheads, and the other names of well known people there give them more cachet as thinkers and doers. It may well be that their only "sin" is that they're not as knowledgeable about what the other guys are doing as "we" are.

There are several ways to achieve population control - one is through abstinence and/or responsible family planning. Another is through forced family planning. A third would be through genocide. I'm guessing that for most people, when they think population control, they think of the first. I know I did for many years. Here we seem to only think of the third.

alys

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