http://hummingbird604.com/2007/07/29/overpopulation-and-the-environment-a-thorny-issue/ The personal blog of a Vancouver-based educator in environmental issues Sun, 20 May 2012 21:32:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://hummingbird604.com/2007/07/29/overpopulation-and-the-environment-a-thorny-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Jark the Saint Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:52:00 +0000 http://hummingbird604.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/overpopulation-and-the-environment-a-thorny-issue/#comment-108 The only problem with "population control" arguments, historically, is that they have always been used to oppress and minimize and experiment on communities which have been less fortunate than 'our own' -- this turned out to be another discourse of eugenics and politics than a legitimate environmental issue. For instance, one "average" person in Vancouver has the environmental footprint of hundreds-if-not-thousands of people living in Indian or African Ghettoes; or another example would be to look at those working in any of the world's sweatshops and asking yourself, do any of these people have access to "adequate living" to even effect (at all) an environmental footprint. The answers are very revealing. The only problem with “population control” arguments, historically, is that they have always been used to oppress and minimize and experiment on communities which have been less fortunate than ‘our own’ — this turned out to be another discourse of eugenics and politics than a legitimate environmental issue. For instance, one “average” person in Vancouver has the environmental footprint of hundreds-if-not-thousands of people living in Indian or African Ghettoes; or another example would be to look at those working in any of the world’s sweatshops and asking yourself, do any of these people have access to “adequate living” to even effect (at all) an environmental footprint. The answers are very revealing.

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