It would be nice if we could appeal to some sense of reason, but the lizard-brain (plus a couple of thousand years of “be fruitful and multiply” religious chanting) seems likely to over rule sanity.

I mean, consider the authors of “Time to Eat the Dog?” The most “shocking” thing they could come up with for their book’s thesis was for human’s to eat their pets, when the most obvious and logical choice is to have fewer humans. Either they are patently ignorant, or they realized even the slightest suggestion of putting a hold on our mass production of humanity would be more controversial than chowing down on Fido and Kitty.

I can think of at least two better subjects for such a book, one of which I proposed in my post (“Time to eat the neighbour?”): my second book would be “Time to Neuter the Humans?” The one glimmer of hope is that, as women become more equal in global society and as wealth (in very modest terms) is redistributed, they tend to take control of their own reproduction. It seems as if most women are quite happy to stop after one or two kids, given the choice.

Unless they are whacked out unemployed American born again Christians with access to invitro fertilization who think having litters of human “puppies” is appropriate behaviour. Yeah, we are screwed…