{"id":9784,"date":"2013-10-21T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9784"},"modified":"2013-10-21T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T18:00:32","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-day-of-seven-billionby-kathleene-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/from-the-zephyr-archives-day-of-seven-billionby-kathleene-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr archives) Day of Seven Billion\u2026by Kathleene Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is anything spookier than the Halloween date, it is that Big Media and big economic forces, by early summer, were already busy telling us that (1.) population growth is nothing to worry about, (2.) the real problem is a lack of babies, the absurdity\u2014on a planet gaining 78 million people a year\u2014of the \u201cbirth dearth\u201d; and the absurdity (3.) that population will somehow magically stabilize mid-to-late century\u2014sort of a demographic version of Gone With the Wind\u2019s Scarlet O\u2019Hara\u2019s, \u201cI can\u2019t think about that right now.\u00a0 I\u2019ll worry about it tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good delaying tactic, especially when there are so many \u201cmore urgent\u201d priorities.\u00a0 But, many of those, such as a crumbling economy, are linked to increased competition for fixed resources, especially the critical underpinnings of every economy on the planet, energy.<\/p>\n<p>And, most critical, tomorrow\u2019s population is determined today.\u00a0 We can\u2019t get out to 2049 and decide there are too many people. By then, it will be too late for what should have been done last century&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Kathleene&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/day-of-seven-billion-by-kathleene-parker\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9785\" alt=\"7BILLION-1024x688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/7BILLION-1024x688-300x201.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/day-of-seven-billion-by-kathleene-parker\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/day-of-seven-billion-by-kathleene-parker\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;If there is anything spookier than the Halloween date, it is that Big Media and big economic forces, by early summer, were already busy telling us that (1.) population growth is nothing to worry about, (2.) the real problem is a lack of babies, the absurdity\u2014on a planet gaining 78 million people a [&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-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","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=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10262,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions\/10262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}