User blog comment:Catfishperson/American Politics Polls./@comment-26295802-20160305212034/@comment-26149161-20160307034857

It's fine, Imrahil. I don't mind harshness.

I have just a few things to say.

First, Heart, I think killing a child because their parents are abusive is a terrible idea. It would be far better to have them adopted and give them a loving family than to kill them.

Second, LoMM, you are being a little faecetious.

And finally, Imrahil, overpopulation is not a big issue. The real problem is the things we have to do to sustain a larger population. If current trends continue, then there would be more cars, more planes, more coal plants, all to keep us supplied. And this would cause huge global warming, melting ice caps, flooding low-lying areas (Alte will be dead because he lives in the Netherlands :P) and disrupting our ecology. Cities and suburbs would have to grow, destroying valuable habitat for animals. There could be mass extinctions. Logging would increase to provide us with wood. And we would be left with a desolate land of human creation, with no nature in sight. Perhaps I'm exaggerating. Maybe I am. But it is what will come to pass, if not in our lives, if humans continue to ravage the world unchecked.