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"Despite these short-term climatic swings and a tropical homeland with fragile and only moderately fertile soils, Classic Maya civilization flourished for more than eight centuries before the harsh realities of overpopulation and environmental stress toppled its proud leaders. That it survived so long in such a demanding environment is a tribute to the skill of Maya farmers. Like other tropical cultivators, the Maya used ancient slash-and-burn farming methods to grow maize and beans." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"When we factor in immune pressure from the overuse of antiviral drugs, overpopulation, immune deficiency caused by poor diet and malnutrition, air pollution, global travel, and declining sunlight, the conditions seem right for a plague. 4 Prelude to a Pandemic Why H5N1 Avian Influenza Is So Dangerous In 1997, a bird flu epidemic emerged in Southeast Asia, killing thousands of chickens and resulting in the slaughter of millions more ordered by governments and the World Health Organization in an attempt to stop it from spreading. The first human case was a three-year-old boy in Hong Kong." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Environmental Refugees mmaw Even if we succeed in calming the violence that has displaced so many, human activity is making the planet a more hostile and unforgiving place: deforestation and soil erosion have rendered barren much of the best cropland; overpopulation has forced large numbers of people to live in precarious situations; and, most direly, humankind has been changing the climate. Climate change may prove to be the ultimate humanitarian disaster." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Spaying and neutering programs have solved the pet overpopulation problem. There are harsh penalties for hurting animals, but as people have become more enlightened, these are seldom necessary. Animals are increasingly integrated into people's lives, but through intuitive communication and human behavioral training, such creatures are well behaved and welcome almost everywhere. Humans and animals are not only good company for each other, but they provide the therapy of love where it is needed ?especially with children, the elderly, the infirm and the mentally challenged." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"But while overpopulation contributes to a spate of global problems — health-related and otherwise—none of us would bemoan the advancements in health care that have granted us life and sustained our wellness. We owe our thanks almost entirely to the advent of scientific public-health programs. Focused largely on prevention, education, and access, the public-health system has greatly enhanced the length and quality of lives worldwide during the last century. One of the greatest examples of a public-health initiative that literally changed the world is the eradication of smallpox." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"States to avoid cooperation and mutual accommodation, the tendency of national States (or factions within national States) to use war (and otherwise unspeakably dark-minded violence) as a method for achieving the goals of national and otherwise culturally idealized policies ..." The list could be continued; it is long and somber. As we have seen, this scenario of business as usual leads to a dead end. Other species went toward and into extinction through little or no fault of their own: the environment around them changed, or other species invaded their niche." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"The vicious circle of fevers-malnutrition-lethargy would immediately follow overpopulation in a potentially malarial region, and it must he said, in a cold-blooded way, that it is as natural a method of population control as famine in an area susceptible to cyclical droughts. A vigorous or enterprising medieval or Renaissance ruler would introduce or reintroduce and enforce good drainage and hygiene and lift a place to a position of economic viability and political importance. Then disaster, in the form of overpopulation, would strike and decline would be repeated." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"The Classic Maya Collapse, as this disaster is called, was triggered by overpopulation and severe environmental degradation, factors which caused a ripple effect across the southern lowlands. Yet the Collapse did not occur everywhere, and several regions had a cultural flowering during what is known as the Terminal Classic. One of these was the area of the Puuc hills in northwestern Yucatan, with the rise to power of such great cities as Uxmal and Kabah. Chichen Itza, in central Yucatan, also participated in this cultural renaissance." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"Then disaster, in the form of overpopulation, would strike and decline would be repeated. The Nile delta decayed several times in the period of which we have historical knowledge. The same is true of the lower Euphrates and the collapse of the Indus civilization before the Mogul invasion. After the fall of Rome similar cycles occurred in the wetlands between Seville and Cadiz in Spain, in the Rhone delta, at the mouth of the Danube, and, in the case for which there is a great deal more solid evidence, in the coastal belt of Portugal." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) "In this wide zone, particularly around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East, the absence of malaria would have first brought about recurring crises of overpopulation, leading to famines—even more than there actually were—and making starvation, rather than disease, the control. The Arabs would not have stopped at the borders of the dry uplands of Africa, the borders of the Sahel. The Vikings would not only have colonized more than the North Atlantic islands, but also, perhaps, gone much further south than Sicily, and even further east than Kiev." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"Environmental Impact of Meat Eating In this age of overpopulation, meat eating is an attack on the entire natural world and one of the main causes of environmental depredation and destruction. The land needed to grow grain for livestock takes up 80 percent of the total land used for grain production. Livestock use approximately half of the water used in the United States. Livestock produce twenty times the excrement as the human population, increasing nitrite-nitrate water pollution; the extensive use of livestock is pushing us closer to a clean water shortage." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.)

"They did so by renouncing war, and they reduced potential conflicts from overpopulation by castrating some male infants. The result was a small, unwarlike population with simple technology and weapons, and without strong leadership or organization. In contrast, the northern (warmer) part of New Zealand, by far the largest island group in Polynesia, was suitable for Polynesian agriculture. Those Maori who remained in New Zealand increased in numbers until there were more than 100,000 of them." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"The total amount required to address mounting global problems—to provide global health care, eliminate starvation and malnutrition, provide clean water and shelter for all, remove land mines, eliminate nuclear weapons, stop deforestation, prevent global warming, ozone depletion and acid rain, retire the paralyzing debt of developing nations, prevent soil erosion, produce safe, clean America, as a nation, energies, stop overpopulation and eliminate illitera- spends six cents out cy —would be one-third that amount, in the neigh- of every dollar on borhood of $237.5 billion. educating its chil- ." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.) "America has the power and resources to reverse global warming, to save the ozone layer, to prevent chemical pollution, stop deforestation, to curb the human overpopulation problem and to prevent the rape of space. Make no mistake —your voice can become loud if you get creative. The money that America invests in killing must now be redirected urgently to the preservation of life. America must rise to its full moral and spiritual height to reach its intended destiny ?the nation that saved the world." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"As long as the number of microforms inhabiting the intestines is small, their presence is beneficial; but when they multiply out of control, they cause health problems. overpopulation of the intestines by microforms creates indigestion, heartburn, cramps, diarrhea, and other complaints. When the space available in the intestinal environment becomes too small for the microform populations to expand, some of them leave and colonize other areas of the body." - Christopher Vasey, The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health: Restore Your Health by Creating pH Balance in Your Diet (Get the book.)

"First, I agree with you that Italy, Germany and Japan find themselves in a dilemma because of overpopulation. While these nations are justified in seeking better opportunities for international trade as well as alleviation of population pressure through emigration, both of which can be accomplished by peaceful means, overpopulation does not justify in any way the desire of these countries for territorial expansion. No state has the right to seize foreign territory merely to enable its excess population to emigrate. . . . My second point concerns the policy of the Allies toward Germany." - Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden, Einstein on Peace (Get the book.)

"This is not so strange, since the elements that are of interest here are imbedded in a story of terrible wars, overpopulation and its gruesome solution: a One World Order and the extermination of whole races.96 A minor element in the story that serves as a roadmark towards the influence of Keely is Hay's description of a small, compact, easy and cheap-to-build device that requires no fuel. Called the "mechanical friction machine," it replaces coal for all domestic and industrial purposes." - Theo Paijmans, Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely (Get the book.)

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