I am a parent, therefore I am

**slofox** · 27th April 2010, 11:29

Prof Natalie seems to be advocating an ever increasing population...well, THAT'S sustainable innit..?

Maybe we should just stop intervening and trying to keep the entire population alive forever...

**Toaster** · 27th April 2010, 17:37

Originally Posted by mashman

I'm fine with genetically engineered kids as long as it's for health benefit (stem cell research included)... but that's another topic lol... having said that they have just cloned the tumor sniffing dog... who's to say that they won't clone Key as he has a good nose for money

Well if government ends up full of KEYS, we wont need LOCKwood-SMITH anymore.

**firefighter** · 27th April 2010, 17:53

Originally Posted by slofox

Prof Natalie seems to be advocating an ever increasing population...well, THAT'S sustainable innit..?

Maybe we should just stop intervening and trying to keep the entire population alive forever...

Beat me to it. Typical idiot kiwi shrtsightedness. What happens when those kids get to pension age?! You'd need to breed greater and greater no.s every generation to keep up!

Waikato, what a joke i'm glad i'm at Massey!

**rwh** · 27th April 2010, 21:32

Originally Posted by scracha

Professor Natalie Jackson, the new director of Waikato University's Population Studies Centre, says the welfare state is "a great pyramid scheme" based on a pyramid-shaped population with only a few old people at the top supported by growing numbers of young people at the bottom.

"Just like a pyramid scheme, you have to have a continuous supply of new people coming in to support the numbers of old people," she said yesterday.

Right - because the best way to deal with a pyramid scheme is to keep feeding it?

Unfortunately, that seems to be the way people think about the whole economy - the only way to keep going is to maintain growth.

If we stopped thinking like that, and started reducing the population a bit, all the problems we have now with CO2 emissions, fuel running out, lack of food etc would start to retreat as well.

Richard

**Mully** · 27th April 2010, 21:46

Originally Posted by firefighter

Waikato, what a joke i'm glad i'm at Massey!

Well, you know what they say; in order to have good Universities, you have to have bad ones with which to compare them.

That should wind up the Waikato alumni......

**mashman** · 27th April 2010, 21:59

Originally Posted by Toaster

Well if government ends up full of KEYS, we wont need LOCKwood-SMITH anymore.

very nice.

**mashman** · 27th April 2010, 22:02

Originally Posted by rwh

Right - because the best way to deal with a pyramid scheme is to keep feeding it?

Unfortunately, that seems to be the way people think about the whole economy - the only way to keep going is to maintain growth.

If we stopped thinking like that, and started reducing the population a bit, all the problems we have now with CO2 emissions, fuel running out, lack of food etc would start to retreat as well.

Richard

Keep feeding it "what"?