[20030906] [one screener, poem] 
Too Many People (Song of Fred Small) (Ecology, Peace Education, Family, Environmental education, Movement, Population, Sex, Transcendency) Most of us have a pretty good idea of the disastrous impact of population growth on the environment but prefer not to talk about it because it raises difficult, controversial, and sometimes personal issues.
Too Many People
"Most of us have a pretty good idea of the disastrous impact of population growth on the environment but prefer not to talk about it because it raises difficult, controversial, and sometimes personal issues. What does one say to friends expecting their third child? It's a little late for a ZPG lecture! So here, in lieu of lecture, is a song - a sing-along, no less - much more fun than a lecture!"
CHORUS:
Too many people having too many babies.
Got to love them babies but there's
Too many people having too many babies.
Got to love them babies but it's out of control.
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Adam and Eve time on their hands
Hyperactive glands room to expand
Once they began begating they begatted to excess
Eschewing tactics prophylactic now we're in a mess
Because there's
CHORUS
When Columbus sailed the ocean we were 400 million
Industrial revolution still under a billion
The Great Depression hit 2.1 billion
Now we're pushing the millenium 6 billion and counting
BRIDGE:
Civil wars rumbling refugees stumbling
Forests falling deserts creeping
Traffic crawling resources depleting
Shoppers shopping for pleasures fleeting
When there's
CHORUS
Once I lived in the city it was too big and noisy
So I moved to the country to stop and smell the rosies
All my city friends joined me and put up nice new housies
Now it's too big and noisy think I'll move to the country
BRIDGE:
Some say no no no no it's not the population
It's consumption pollution unequal distribution
I say that's so but it's a simple equation
Population times pollution equals no solution
When there's
CHORUS
If you are a child welcome to the world
This blue-green earth is your gift by birth
May you rock to its rhythms may you sing its anthems
And if you have babies stop at two
Because there's
CHORUS
CHORUS (...please stop at two)
Copyright 1993 Pine Barrens Music (BMI)
Promises Worth Keeping
The Songs of Fred Small
Volume 2
Yellow Moon Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
This song is on the page 98.
Date of creation or issue: 1993.
Copyright: all rights reserved
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