It should be obvious to all. Our planet is getting full. Overpopulation is the cause of Global Warming. Growth cannot go on forever.

Who are the worst offenders? Often it's the Hispanics (Who won't vote for Obama). The Hispanic Governor Richardson is seeing the light.

In spite of the noisy and foolish Reverend Wright, Blacks are not the problem. Many Hispanics seek to over ride the white majority by out breeding them. In the Middle East it's the Palestinians.

The Pope gets into the problem. The Church of Rome is against birth controls. And who does not listen to him on that? Italians have the lowest birth rate. The old rascal is right next door and they know him. US Catholics are much the same.

So Obama does not always follow Reverend Wright. Preachers should teach the Gospel and nothing else. Obama chooses the good part of his preacher.

Right wingers? Same problem. Falwell and many others.

My town, like many others, is infested with real estate boomers.

China seeks to control its population. Is the World New Order going to be Chinese?

...is the following quote:

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey

The cartoon is political. The cancer cell is an analogy. Excess growth is the cancer of our world.

Latvia:

7.8 births/1,000 population

Bulgaria:

8.06 births/1,000 population

Estonia:

8.45 births/1,000 population

Russia:

9.02 births/1,000 population

Ukraine:

9.03 births/1,000 population

Czech Republic:

9.1 births/1,000 population

Italy:

9.13 births/1,000 population

Enough of the very questionable and basically horrible chain of thought.

Birth rates drop when women are educated and have choices. The poor women of the world have babies. That is true of the first world too. There are special cases from some religions that don't give women choices but those are not the norm. Even in Catholic countries it is about socio economics and religion is just a small variable.

You don't have to be against growth... it is self limiting. Either a culture figures it out or it dies. We are about to have the opportunity to figure it out....

...and in fact is considered by many not to be the major cause. According to a white paper published by the Sierra Club:

"Even in developing countries

with high population growth

rates, global warming pollution

is still far lower than that

of developed countries such

as the United States."

The US contributes nearly 25% of the world's carbon emission, yet the US accounts for less than 5% of thw world's population.

Blue Amberol, there are other kinds of growth besides population growth. You may want to get your facts straight before you pontificate.

... see

http://www.sierraclub.org/population/factsheets/globalwarming-population.pdf

Blue Amberol was in such a hurry to inflict his opinion on us, he missed an important clue: the disguised cancer cell says, "Bully For Business," which leads me to believe that the point being made has more to do with economics and big business-- not population, global warming, or any of the rest of BA's screed.

Garry Owen, come on, you have to say something. We know you are watching. Make a little comment about Opus. Please.

They are a greater revelation about the nature of human beings than the Breathed cartoon, which to be honest was below his average quality level since the resumption of his strip.

The poor political fanatics, worried about growth and pollution and using more than one sheet of toilet paper and all the rest, somehow thought that this Opus cartoon was going to attract all manner of ordinary people. What a perfect place to locate their screeds and convince those retarded and ignorant masses to join their Godly crusades!

Except those masses are out reading cartoons this Sunday that handle political matters with sophistication and style. Not this one (sorry, Mr. Breathed). So the real amusement is seeing the pampleteers coming to slap their screaming paranoia in a place where the intended audience...isn't going. But then, they were never known for their perceptivity.

He's made his $$.

Now, stop the 'growth!"

Yawn.

Go to Cuba, Berk.

You've lost your fast-ball anyway with these baby-boomer tear cartoons.

Make folks a bit uncomfortable? Questioning Authority?

Good by me!

"The US contributes nearly 25% of the world's carbon emission, yet the US accounts for less than 5% of thw world's population."

True, but the US also provides something like 30% of the world's GNP. Whole lotta stuff going on here, besides people standing around breathing, eating and breeding.

The questions and answers aren't simple. We need to talk about the whole range of issues (I'd be the last to deny that the US doesn't waste Megajoules like a herd of pigs).

But it isn't this, or that, or that other one thing. We need to start thinking about an interdependent planet and a whole range of givebacks, tradeoffs and compromises.

And Berk's cartoon was pretty cool this time.

Yeah you know you want to. (pssst, look it up in Wiki, scroll all the way to the bottom)

He may be down South with the plump GOP's wife? He's at Myrtle Beach?

You can bet Owen is belittling thin folk wearing bathing suits somewhere.

Owen is okay. Vets decide after a nightmare like that to head for Cancun.

Owen has dyed his hair green with henna leaves. Owen sports a chest tattoo of Opus.

The Abbey quote was appropriate.

All the population cover is a side show.(But part of the topic).

The comments on the Corps and the Malignancies of Market capital come the closest since both Malthus and Abbey left the scene before Steve Jobs and Berlusconi and all the Corpobillionaires began their part of the endgame.

So things will go untill Malthus' diminishing returns begin to haunt- the primitives may survive, but all us overly-connected slaves?

Cancer cells are starting to be eliminated by the injection of tiny nano iron pellets which are then microwaved a few degrees cel. which the Corpor. (excuse me, I meant to say...) cancer cannot tolerate. An easy to understand solution.

As for the sibling malignancies (The corps and the fat cats and fatkittens): a more nuanced understanding is required, but the sum reamains the same:

Stop buying into the capital cancer.

Use your lives for less and less materialistic aim.

Make your own fantasy for free.

In specific terms:

Turn off your damn engines and phones and markets,and screens: learn to live a simpler (ever simpler) existence.

Cancel those deathdealing credit lines.

Park that iron demon in the salvage yard.

Unplug your entertainments (birdsong is free and music and dance etc. were , for eons nonelectronic).

Stop coveting a carrer in a polluteer employer(or in an employer who invests in polluters and exploiters).

I am sure there are more such tips ( I remember the lectures or Earthday, 1970) but, simply put, the best way to get that cancer dead is to kill it WITHIN YOURSELVES.

No, my rant was not written in cuniform on clay tablets, but I borrow my access and have not once owned any of this above mentioned junk- especially the base cancer- credit and her master, the market investment; and still, there are many of us who do not need the monstrous pocket phone.

Growth is your phone and Steve Jobs and Berlusconi's empires and ecocostly popular culture and The (basic) American Dream (now gone malignantly global).

Kill that monster in your own lives, then Opus can end his nightmares. That ugly ogre on his bed? That well-connected handyphone in your expensive jeans pocket!