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If you think that people of certain countries will have no impact on climate change, think again. The true heart... [MORE]

Glenn 

Aug 2, 2007 17:49

Uh oh, we are besieged by ruinous demographic decline! There's only 6 and a half billion of us left!! Quick,... [MORE]

Jeffrey Kroll 

Jul 17, 2007 16:07

Mark, You talk sense while making me laugh, and we will need lots of logic and laughter to combat the... [MORE]

Bill Brunhofer 

Jul 17, 2007 13:33

Al Gore new band for the next dead earth concert [MORE]

Karen 

Jul 17, 2007 08:19

Whereas I enjoy watching the spectacle of the left's latest folly, "global changing" and the chanting of so many wise... [MORE]

John Reeves 

Jul 17, 2007 00:45

There is only one thing I can say about Live Aid and those around the world who want to "save"... [MORE]

Mario 

Jul 16, 2007 21:14

Men need not leave it up to women, equipped as they are with contraceptive pills, IUDs, and the addresses of... [MORE]

Kralizec 

Jul 16, 2007 19:31

Apparently, the population of the developed world isn't shrinking fast enough to suit the intellectual elite'; they wanted Zero Population... [MORE]

eon 

Jul 16, 2007 17:27

Writing you Mark, just because I so enjoy, admire and appreciate your work ... don't really expect you to respond... [MORE]

Bill Griffiths 

Jul 16, 2007 17:00

Good thing that the world plant community hasn't yet figured out how to hire an attorney to stop the "anti-CO2... [MORE]

owen leach 

Jul 16, 2007 16:36

Nigeria and Yemen are not included in their equation because population reduction and saving the environment are not the point.... [MORE]

Assistant Village Idiot 

Jul 16, 2007 16:26

Always refreshing to read a Steyn review, especially if it's musically as well as politically involved.... kind of a confluence... [MORE]

Eugene Wager 

Jul 16, 2007 14:57

Mark, you keep harping on about 'replacement level' reproduction being so important. The implication being that every country in the... [MORE]

joe hitchens 

Jul 16, 2007 14:32

Hi Mr. Hitchens; You are wrong demographics have had no impact on the survival of countries. During the late 19th century... [MORE]

Ruy Diaz 

Jul 16, 2007 16:21

"......what you are saying is nonsense. Trying to persuade people...." I guess I missed that, I'll have to re-read it [MORE]

Blandly Urbane 

Jul 16, 2007 17:00

Joe, you're completely missing the point. Mark isn't suggesting that the worlds population as a whole is going to drop... [MORE]

Sam B 

Jul 16, 2007 17:43

Joe: Mark's numbers don't lie. A larger percentage of Europeans will disappear this century than any other, including the centuries... [MORE]

steyn fan 

Jul 16, 2007 18:40

Just think - some nuts want to have Al Gore for President - can you imagine the White House all... [MORE]

James 

Jul 17, 2007 01:10

Joe, this is not about optimality. Here is some arithmetic: The world has, say, 6 billion people. Assume that the... [MORE]

supermartingale 

Jul 17, 2007 02:55

Joe: You take Mark to task for going on and on about sustainable reproduction rates for nations. After all, you... [MORE]

Rick Gibson 

Jul 17, 2007 04:10

If you had read America Alone as I have, you would understand that replacement level of population has nothing to... [MORE]

Andrew K 

Jul 17, 2007 04:58

I do hope the good professor follows his own dictum off putting future generations into his own hands. And washes... [MORE]

Wolf Terner 

Jul 16, 2007 14:00

Rock musicians are all deaf and their audiences are little better. So should we be talking about a carbon earprint?... [MORE]

richard sutherland 

Jul 16, 2007 12:28

I would invite all liberals to stop having any children at all. My conservative friends and I will be happy... [MORE]

Sue 

Jul 16, 2007 11:50

Few years back, Bill Bryson, another American who's world famous but for things other than stiff neck and lack of... [MORE]

Boris Ben 

Jul 16, 2007 11:47

If people in the UK have 1 less child it will mean they will bring in one more immigrant so... [MORE]

marginalizedactiondinosaur.net 

Jul 16, 2007 09:47