{"id":1360,"date":"2010-02-07T07:11:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2010-02-07T07:11:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T15:11:04","slug":"malthus-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/malthus-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Malthus redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder the Green Emperor appears more bare-assed than usual &#8211; he&#8217;s got the <em>Environmental News Network<\/em> to assist him in removing his renewable green threads. In a recent post, ENN informed its cheery readers that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enn.com\/agriculture\/article\/40986\">perhaps Malthus was wrong; that 9 billion <em>Homo erectus asphaltus<\/em> might not be that hard to feed after all.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Neo-Green Revolution will not be televised. But it will be blogged to death.<\/p>\n<p>And now, a word from our sponsors &#8211; who gives a rat&#8217;s ass if we can feed 9 billion iPod Monkeys? Is that the ecological touch down we&#8217;ve all been holding our breath for? Let&#8217;s hope not. <\/p>\n<p>With a flair for the obvious, let&#8217;s repeat the mantra one more time &#8211; ecological health ain&#8217;t about numbers and calories. It&#8217;s about carrying capacity. And that includes a delicate dance between a theater full of diverse critters, some who don&#8217;t seem interested in the foibles of the Human Soap Opera one twit. <\/p>\n<p>9 billion well-fed humanoids will continue to do what humanoids have always done (and are probably genetically programed to do) &#8211; stomp the shit out of the planet. Unless, of course, a Dictator and his armed robots decide otherwise. Not a rosy picture; and totally avoidable. <\/p>\n<p>The Big Question is this &#8211; Once we feed the hordes, then what? <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;. free condoms!<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder the Green Emperor appears more bare-assed than usual &#8211; he&#8217;s got the Environmental News Network to assist him in removing his renewable green threads. In a recent post, ENN informed its cheery readers that perhaps Malthus was wrong; that 9 billion Homo erectus asphaltus might not be that hard to feed after all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}