[ RadSafe ] Reasoning the Unreasonables (frm:Chernobyls Reduced Impact)

[John Jacobus]

It appears that Coustaeu had lost his sense of hope in
humanity. 

--- BLHamrick at aol.com <BLHamrick at aol.com> wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 9/17/2005 10:19:53 P.M. Pacific
Standard Time,  
> maurysis at ev1.net writes:
> 
> <<I failed to find  "... getting rid of 300,000
human beings  a day ...", 
> but the following interview reflects a pretty
pragmatic view  of 
> environmental problems.>>
> 
> 
> It's from a 1991 interview appearing in the November
1991 UNESCO  Courier: 
>  
> "Our society is turning toward more and more 
needless consumption. It is a 
> vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . 
Should we eliminate suffering, 
> diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps  not a
benefit for the long 
> term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to 
endanger the future of our 
> species.
> This is a  terrible thing to say. In order to
stabilize world population, we 
> must  eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a
horrible thing to say, but  it 
> is just as bad not to say it."
> 


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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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