The website in question reminded me of a site I found way back in '95, when the public web was still fairly new. It was a site dedicated to "Negative Population Growth", although it advocated far more peaceful measures (without any silly "how fast can you click a mouse button" crap). Anyway, there really is a problem with overpopulation on good ol' planet Earth, and environmentalists all over the world are trying to 1) convince people the problem exists, and b) convince people to SOLVE the problem (generally by birth control, etc. rather than genocide, of course).
I do support one thing stated on the webpage that started this whole debate: the vast majority of people on this planet are not smart. Not smart at all. How these people figure out how to have babies & raise them to an age where the reproductive cycle can keep on rolling is beyond me...
And I have to say, the stupid people seem to have more babies than the smart people; probably because the smart people get distracted and spend their time playing games like SE4 rather than having sex with their spouses...
(Like how I turned this topic back around to Space Empires?)
(Oh - and sorry for the reference to "Mad About You" and the main character's habit of forgetting whether he was "counting" reasons by number or by letter)
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