The Editor,
Re: "Population overload is depleting Mother Earth," Letters, July 11.
As usual in his rambling letter to the Richmond News, Ryan Lake manages to insult a great number of Canadians with his rants against "over-population," religious people (particularly Christians), big "greedy" corporations, our corrupt political system, "wealthy" immigrants, etc.
That your paper has chosen to devote half a page of limited space to Lake's hatefilled and falsehood-filled screed demonstrates, once again, that defaming and slandering Christians without impunity is one of the favourite past times of our secular news media.
As for Lake's hysterical assertions against human population, they were thoroughly debunked and discredited by that great American economist Julian L. Simon, who in his 1980 book The Ultimate Resource (revised and edited version reissued in 1996) provided reams of facts and data that completely disprove and debunk false assertions of population bombers like Lake and his predecessors such as Paul Ehrlich and Thomas Malthus.
So, Lake has had 32 years to read Simon's book and to modify his Ramblin' misanthropic views about human population, but Lake stubbornly chooses to remain in ignorance and hangs on to his hate-filled misanthropic beliefs. I guess, to Lake, ignorance is indeed bliss!
I am in the process of writing a book entitled, "Justifying Genocide: How the Population Bomb Scare, We Are Running Out of Everything Scare and We Are Destroying the Planet by Pollution Scare Have Helped to Make Murder of Millions of Human Beings Acceptable."
I open this book with quotes of two great thinkers and defenders of humanity H.L. Mencken and G.K. Chesterton. Mencken wrote, "Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of the crazies; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."
While Chesterton said, "The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population, or if he is not, how he knows he is not."
Hopefully, Ramblin' Lake will take some time off from his busy schedule of ranting and hating people near and far, to read this book and to become more informed before he sits down to write his next misanthropic, anti-Christian, anti-Canadian, anti-immigrant screed to your newspaper.
Branko Popazivanov Richmond
