Re: Overpopulation and Burma cyclone

"Ouroboros_Rex" <its@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> James wrote:
>> <Chief_Billy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>
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>> On May 9, 12:01 pm, Enough Already <enough_alre...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Burma has close to 48 million people in an area slightly smaller 
>>> than
>>> Texas (USA). As the population grows (mindlessly, like everywhere),
>>> more trees are lost. Mangroves used to form a coastal buffer against
>>> extreme storm surges, but 3/4ths of them have been cleared for 
>>> shrimp
>>> and rice farming since the 1920s.
>>> Seehttp://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/09/asia/mangrove.php
>>>
>>> This is similar to what happened with hurricane Katrina. Too many
>>> barrier wetlands have been filled in for development (a.k.a.
>>> population growth), making them unable to absorb storm surges as 
>>> they
>>> naturally would. Florida also suffers from this condition. Record
>>> storms reveal the idiocy of destroying nature in the name of
>>> "economic growth."
>>
>>
>> This is not the case in Myanmar (Burma) at all. These areas have been
>> habitated by people
>> since before Christ, and are not filled-in wetlands. Displacing these
>> people for safety reasons
>> would be like making Ethiopeans leave their country because of
>> possible famine, or the Swiss
>>> leave the Alps because of possible avalanches.
>>
>> What is upsetting to me, and probably not many others, is the anger
>> shown by other governments and people that we be allowed in to help.
>> They are an isolationist country and it's no ones business but 
>> theirs.
>> And that's the way they want it.
>
>  No, that's the way their ruling generals want it.  They, themselves, 
> are dying.  Not normally a preferred condition.

It doesn't matter who rules it. People like you assign a negative and 
think it justifies whatever you decide. Pathetic.

>
>
> Now, I'm hearing some bad mouth from
>> us and the U.N. on their leaders. It seems it doesn't matter what 
>> they
>> want, we know what is best for them.
>
>  See above.
>
>>
>> It shouldn't matter how their country is run but to most it seems, we
>> would be justified going in there by force. For humanity reasons
>> naturally. How arrogant and demanding we have become.
>
>  Feel free to perish along with them, since that is the solution you 
> are backing.
>