Oh I have no time for those protestors. Screaming bunch of anarchists. They knocked Police off their horses! Poor horsies!
They're just thugs. Like the bloke who got pulled aside by a television reporter. The man was protesting against companies like Nike, but he had Nikes on. The reporter had a field day about it.
However, I DO agree with some of the points of the legitimate protestors. We must curb multinational powers, we must curb if not stop harm to the environment, we must increase the lot of ALL workers.
The fact is, no, we as yet cannot DESTROY the planet Earth yet, because its a chuck of rock 40000km in circumference. However, we are quite able to destroy the ecosystem that lives on/in Earth.
Look at all the crowded places in the world. Do you notice any place that can be inhabited? Antarctica? no, too cold for settlement. Amazon jungle? No, we need those tree for air, Earth's lungs. The Australian desert? No, too arid for large scale human settlement.
The truth is what land that is suitable for large scale settlement HAS been taken up already...and is being increasingly populated. Look at India. One Billion people in a small area. Things aren't going too good for them. China's east coast. Crowded. Shanghai alone has more people that Australia's total population. Japan? Well, if you want intergenerational loans of 100 years for a small one room apartment and you think we can populate the Earth some more? HEY THIS LIFESTYLE IS FOR YOU!
Personally, I'd rather live where I do, not too many people and whilst there are some environmental problems, they aren't anywhere near as bad as some other places of the world.
Please, we need to reduce the world's population. NOT increase it! Someone just TRY to give me a convincing argument otherwise. I would really like to hear some of the reasons!
My apologies for that last post in bold, I didn't clean it up properly
[Edited by redwolf on 05-08-2001 at 04:13]