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Send to this email address: Sender email address: Name of sender: Your Message: Dear Friend! Visit http://bocs.hu - The Sustainable Civilisation Portal! It's worthy! The material: 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. -- 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.