Carl Pope reflects on the Aspen Environment Forum

And the creepiness ensues.  Naturally, the whole point of the article is 'look out, too many [not me] people in the world!'  Obvious uneducated women are to blame.  Religion, for resisting the notion of population control, is also given its fair share.  A few strange notions, such as the educational lacking of American women and what appears to be a kudos to China for its, ahem, approach to educating women for better population control, find their way into the piece.

But the really creepy stuff is, as usual, found to be in the comments section.  From 'darn right religion is evil', to 'we can always hope for some famines and plagues', the contempt for human life and unacceptable beliefs at the dawn of the 21st century takes all that existed at the dawn of the 20th century, and multiplies it.  Why?  Because at the dawn of the 20th century, Europeans had developed the classic 'too many of you, just enough of me' philosophy of population control, and applied it to their own nations or civilization.  That is, Europeans in general were just fine, they just didn't want so many darkies, or poor, or Jews, or whatever.  Today, that same contempt is there, but in keeping with the rabid individualism and focus on the eternal Me, it becomes 'all humans are a pox upon the earth who need to go...except for me and the cool, hip folks I personally say are worth hanging around.'

I can't imagine what the next cataclysmic genocide to hit humanity will look like, but I have a pretty darn good idea of what it will be founded on.