Reply #16: The world population has to drop [View All]

The resources of the earth are no longer sufficient to raise the Third World to an acceptable standard of living. We are living off our ecological capital and the total population must be reduced as quickly as possible if we are to achieve sustainability before feedback mechanisms make its attainment impossible.
http://dieoff.org/page57.htm


If we substitute "Industrial Religion" for Catholicism, "ecology" for Copernicus' astronomy, and "Growthmen" for churchmen, we can see that a parallel situation exists today.

In the 16th century, Martin Luther established a new form of Christianity that ultimately came to regard work as the only way to obtain love and approval. But behind the Christian face arose a new secret religion that actually directs the character of modern society. At the center of Industrial Religion is fear of powerful male authorities, cultivation of the sense of guilt for disobedience, and dissolution of community by promoting hyper-individuality and mutual antagonism. The "sacred" in Industrial Religion is work, property, profit and power.

Industrial Religion is incompatible with genuine Christianity in that it reduces people to servants of the economy. The most aggressive and ruthless are rewarded with even more power and riches. Industrial Religion was destined to fail from the very beginning because it actively destroys its own premises (both morally and physically) by encouraging its members to dominate and exploit each other and nature.

Growth men are today's equivalent of the medieval churchmen. They refuse to look at the scientific evidence and "see for themselves", because once again, it means the defeat of their current religious dogma; it means that they must give up their faith that the problems caused by growth can be cured by more of the cause.
(the economic dream the rich corporates say NO ONE will take away from them)
There is however, one big difference between yesterday's churchmen and today's Growth men. Growth men carry the collective responsibility for the deaths of billions of lives as once-civil societies gradually disintegrate into insurrection, chaos, and oblivion.
http://dieoff.org/page2.htm


Growth men Might as well be called the Cancer religion. Cancer kills it's host if it is not checked,by DEATH or forcable removal of the cancer.