And in unrelated news, Dr. Eric R. Pianka has been appointed the new Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services by President Bush.

"You're doing a good job, Pinky," said President Bush, during an Oval Office press conference. . .

Any word on whether he will be dispatching an army of robots to carry out this plan?

I've heard that the speach was on how our demise was inevitable, not desirable. Supposedly nobody there except Forrest Mims thought he was advocating killing people.

And let me guess: Mr. Eco Nazi thinks that he'll be among the worthy 10% who will inhabit the newly cleared lebensraum for ze new dawn of a Fourth Reich.

Shocking this, given how the leaders of the Third Reich were nature lovers...

but the earth would be stupid without humans.

if you read about the actual speech, it's pretty obvious he was using hyperbole. unfortunately, since everything is online now, you can just copy paste snippits, and no one will think to find the context. i don't know how to do that fancy html stuff, but if you go to andrewsullivan.com, he has a little thing about it and a link to the whole story.

got to love those gay catholic republicans with aids.

and you just know Paris Hilton would survive...

I had heard this before, in a purely fact based non pro- annihlation manner. The amount of resources used, species gone extinct, population growth etc = overload. Either we (like Walmart) expand to new markets (planets) or our current market(planet) fails to sustain us. We would likely see an enormous disparity of those who control resources and those who die off.

I think it was the premis used in Stephen R Donaldsons series of Sci Fi novels the Gap sequence to explain why humans would spend the huge amount of effort and $ to colonize space.

Not the first time Sci Fi plainly mentions statistically likely future events.

But it gets better! Because of this speech, Pianka was reported to Homeland Security by William Dembski, an Intelligent Design Creationist advocate.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/3/11409/90836

My vote is for antibiotic resistant TB. Ebola kills too quickly. What you want is a disease that keeps the victims alive and unaware for a while so they can spread it around.
Disease is a very good way to weed out density. It spreads most where density is highest. So if you were looking for a self-regulating mechanism for the earth to carry out a human cull, disease is a likely one. Other culling mechanisms wouldn't be so elegantly tied to density itself. That's probably what the stated preference for disease refers to.

I'm partial to rampaging, brain-eating zombies, myself.

Selective sterilization.

Selective sterilization.

Zombies are far too slow to do a good job. Plus they're dumb, allowing plucky heroines to escape time after time.

To do the job right you need ..

Tyranasaurs flying F-14s.

nice calvin and hobbes reference!

Is it status quo for a journalist on the slog to do absolutely no fact checking? I thought there was some higher standard you were supposed to have- anyone cant copy and paste someone else's words.

stranger drops the ball and goes with sensationalism.

Erica:
I think you are being used as a tool of misinformation in this case.

Tried to post a useful link yesterday the the Pharyngula website but your filter may have decided it was spam.

Anyway, dailykos.com is following this story of this strange right-wing attack on a guy who does not advocate killing off the humans, only warns that conditions exist where such a thing could happen. He certainly isn't involved in making plague inducing pathogens.

when is the stranger going to issue a correction and apology for this awful excuse for sensationalism?

stranger is sucking on this news item still.

how about an actual quote from Eric Pianka himself, instead of a game of telephone continued by the stranger:

"I have two grandchildren and I want them to inherit a stable Earth. But I fear for them. Humans have overpopulated the Earth and in the process have created an ideal nutritional substrate on which bacteria and viruses (microbes) will grow and prosper. We are behaving like bacteria growing on an agar plate, flourishing until natural limits are reached or until another microbe colonizes and takes over, using them as their resource. In addition to our extremely high population density, we are social and mobile, exactly the conditions that favor growth and spread of pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes. I believe it is only a matter of time until microbes once again assert control over our population, since we are unwilling to control it ourselves. This idea has been espoused by ecologists for at least four decades and is nothing new. People just don't want to hear it... I do not bear any ill will toward humanity. However, I am convinced that the world WOULD clearly be much better off without so many of us... We need to make a transition to a sustainable world. If we don't, nature is going to do it for us in ways of her own choosing. By definition, these ways will not be ours and they won't be much fun. Think about that. "

excerpted from http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/Everybody.html

via wikipedia.

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