I found this comment in a British magazine, and thought it very interesting just now with the climate meeting in Copenhagen:

"Many extreme 'environmentalists' secretly look forward to a mass 'culling' of
the human species, by war, famine, plague, or natural disaster. Only a small,
mostly American, have the honestly and moral courage to voice such offensive
opinions openly. But what do British Pagans think?"

Well, to further that discussion, I thought it a good idea to quote from an
article in National Geography, December issue, vol 215 no 6: The Hazda, 21.
century hunter-gatherers.

The Hazda live in the Great Rift Valley where humankind is supposed to originate
from, and "genetic testing indicates that they may represent one of the primary
roots of the human family tree - perhaps more than 100.000 years old."

"The Hazda do not engange in warfare. They've never lived densely enough to be
seriously threathened by an enfectious outbreak. They have no known history of
famine; rather, there is evidence of people from a farming group coming to lve
wth them during a time of crop failure. The Hazda diet remains even today more
stable and varied than that of most of the world's citizens. They enjoy an
extraordinary abount of leisure time. Anthropologists have estmated that they
'work' - actively pursue food - four to six hours a day. And over all these
thousands of years, they've left hardly more than a footprint on the land."

"For more than 99% of the time since the genus Homo arose two million years ago,
everyone lived as hunter-gatherers. Then, once plants and animals were
domesticated, the discovery sparked a complete reorganization of the globe. Food
production mached in lockstep with greater population densities, which allowed
farm-based societies to displace or destroy hunter-gatherer groups.
Agriculture's sudden rise, however, came with a price. It introduced
infectious-disease epidemics, social stratification, intermittent famines, and
large-scale war. Jared Diamond, the UCLA professor and writer, has called the
adoption of agriculture nothing less than "the worst mistake in human history -
a mistake, he suggests, from which we have never recovered."

So, what do you think?

Are we too many people?