Alan Rabinowitz on the Colbert Report

Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Environment/Conservation, Politics |

This guy is awesome, and the work he does sounds awesome too. Instead of wasting money on fueling over-population in poor countries, the Irish government should give way more money to conservation projects like this guy’s. Last time I checked we had more than enough people on this planet…

His book on Amazon.

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4 Responses to “Alan Rabinowitz on the Colbert Report”

  1. Thriftcriminal on June 12th, 2008 7:35 am

    Too right, way too many people. I say feed them to the tigers. Just kidding. He seems a very determined and courages chap. BTW how would this too many people thing (which I agree with) sit with the whole medical ethics thing?

  2. Alan Rabinowitz and the Colbert Report, etc on June 12th, 2008 7:02 pm

    [...] and ethics, is well worth a visit.  And, more generally, it looks like Rabinowitz has more than a few new fans.  And let’s forget that he was, as an aside, also featured in a recent National [...]

  3. Cian on June 12th, 2008 11:38 pm

    Yeah, that is something of a conflict. I suppose my answer is that any measures to curb population growth should, in my view, be based on limiting birth rates, and thus somebody could be in favour of both keeping people alive for as long as possible while also favouring a reduction in a number of people on Earth.

  4. Anthony on June 13th, 2008 1:13 pm

    Wait… Cian.
    Are you actually promoting abstinence?
    I thought you’d have enough of that by now!
    (I await a “your mum” joke)

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