"Tom McDonald" wrote in message
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wrote:

Ummm, no; we're still not interested in your tired Nazi ****.

I suspect we won't be interested in the near future, either.
Perhaps you could check back in, say, 50 years. Maybe by then
some of us will have lost enough brain cells to imagine you
might have something to say.

But my
father would also caution that America could simply not take in the
entire world,

"Possibly, by a ruthless disregard of all other living things and the
sacrifice of most natural beauty, the earth could support several times its
present skyrocketing population; although I doubt not that in such crowded
communities, in an environment poisoned by the pesticides that seem
indispensable to agriculture on the scale necessary to support teeming
millions, people would be subject to even more disorders of many kinds than
they are today. But what sensitive man would care to live in a world so
crowded that he could hardly move without bumping into his neighbors, in
which every activity would be minutely regulated by government--in a world
whose pristine beauty is preserved only in the writings of old authors and
perhaps some dusty museum specimens, like the glory that was Greece and the
grandeur that was Rome?

We should consider the possibility that throughout its entire existance,
this planet can support only a certain total of human beings, so that the
greater the number of the people who crowd it today, draining its resources,
the fewer it will be able to support in future ages; just as, if a man has
only a certain sum of money and no possibility of acquiring more, the more
he spends today, the less he will be able to spend in the future. Every
generous man cherishes the hope that future generations will be better and
happier than the present one, which includes so many pitiful specimens of
humanity living miserably. Would it not be preferable to keep the population
low now, so that superior men may become more numerous in future ages?
Likewise, the fewer people we have to deal with, the sooner we should be
able to solve the many pressing problems that confront humanity. A chief
difficulty is that cities and nations have grown so huge that their problems
defy our little minds and our limited resources." ---Alexander Skutch