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[pandapounce]

The Texas Academy of Science recently gave the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist Award to a man named Dr. Eric R. Pianka. It was awarded to him for advocating the agonizing death of over 5 billion people via the Ebola virus as a viable way to deal with the population problem. Hundreds of people gave him a standing ovation

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*Twitch!*

[anonymous]

That's *so* off the hook!

-Ouzel-

[alikkon]

Gotta love Texas.

[jasonwarlock]

Yeah, shock is just about it. What I don't understand is that in a time of heightened paranoia in this country, why have the FBI, NSA or Department of Homeland Security not targeted this mad scientist as a terrorist? I can only assume its because he's a Texan.

[mkb_cbr]

Then there's the pig race/

[lizzylavenza]

If you look at articles that quote him word for word like this one
http://cns.utexas.edu/communications/2006/04/award_pianka05.asp instead of ones that rely on hearsay he doesn't sound too bad. For example:

“I don’t mean any ill will toward humanity,” says Pianka, “but I do think that we need to decrease our population in order to live more sustainably on this Earth. We need to make a transition to a sustainable world. If we don't, nature is going to do it for us in ways of her own choosing. By definition, these ways will not be ours, and they won't be much fun.”

And keep in mind that many speeches by politicians and comedians often can't be videotaped either, because people don't want you selling bootleg tapes of what they are shelling out big speaking fees for.

[pandapounce]

Sure, I saw that quote. And some of the things he advocates do make sense. For example, goverment-madadted reproduction control like China has. Of course, this also raises a bevy of concerns about how to do this. China, of course, does it by being a police state. I don't deny that enviromental concerns are the number one problem our world faces, but I still don't think that mass murder is really the way to deal with it.

I'd think that isn't the objective here, as the other speakers were being videotaped.

[pandapounce]

*I'd think that revenue isn't the objective here, as the other speakers were being videotaped.

[lizzylavenza]

I totally disagree with government mandated reproductive control. I personally think we could dramatically reduce the birth rate simply by raising the standard of living worldwide, there are dramatic exceptions (often religious) but most peoples have less children as their standard of living rises. Spain for example has relaxed it's immigration policies so that people from south america with spanish heritage can move there because their birth rate has fallen so.(it just leaves us with the equally large issue of what to do when the entire world is as wastefull of resources as we are.)