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R.V. Short in “The impact of population growth on thomorrow's world” Royal Society 2009, page 297.

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25 January 2012: Are Britons becoming more dishonest?

A new survey carried out by Professor Paul Whiteley at the Essex University ‘Centre for the Study of Integrity’ (ECSI) claims this is so for misdemeanours (minor wrongdoings) as distinct from major crimes.

The survey repeated, with the same questions, a survey carried out in 2000. The survey was of the attitudes of over 2,000 adults who “were asked to take an ‘integtity test’, in which they were asked whether they thought a range of activities could ever be justified”.

Compared with the survey of attitudes in 2000, people were more tolerant of activities like having an extramarital affair, or failing to leave a contact after damaging a parked car.
The only offence of which people have become less tolerant since the year 2000 was cheating on benefits.

These results suggest that there might be an on-going decrease in honesty that could eventually have serious consequences for society in the future by making it much more difficult for government to maintain order.

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See the report:
ECSI

See also the BBC News item:
BBC

 

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Continued human population growth aggravates: climate change, other resource depleation, food stock depletion, ecosystem deterioration which leads to coflict between ndations. Migration from poor to rich nations aggravates: a brain drain (but remittances gain) in poor nations and in reich nations it weakens national identity, creates a food and housing need, and drives coninuted population growth, all these lead to conflict within nations.
Population Growth & Migration the website of Gaia Watch of the UK

Human Population Growth and Migration have serious consequences, globally and for the United Kingdom. Visit gaiawatch.org.uk, our long established companion web site for detailed investigations and indepth analysis of these issues.

Lovelock's Gaia World Hypothesis

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James Lovelock FRS put forwards the hypothesis that the whole planet, including its molten core and all living organisms, is a single living climate regulating system that keeps global temperatures within such limits that life can flourish. This is accomplished by negative feedback mechanisms, which enable the planet to withstand disturbances such as ice ages. Lovelock calls this living planet Gaia, named after the Greek earth goddess Gaia. But mankind has stressed Gaia so much that soon it will probably not be able to maintain the present temperature limits; rather it will fairly suddenly switch to a much hotter regulatory system where the majority of mankind will be killed.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-B-Kurtz/592123232 Steven B Kurtz

    Conflict diagram. I think it is not clear, perhaps inaccurate, nowhere near complete.
    Climate change is planetary and some claim the rich cause the flooding in densely populated far away places; “other resource depletion” – better as “resource depletion” (other than ‘what’?); “food stocks” are really flows, constantly being produced, however food stocks are at 50 year lows. Ecosystem deterioration is local, regional, AND global (seas are regional; air is global; land, rivers, aquifers are local). “The potential for conflict” line: conflict is both local and between nations. I think you intend that meaning. Perhaps there should be arrows pointing left and right rather than just lines. As a 25 year activist/researcher of overpopulation, I think I understand your intentions. But I think the diagram could be better presented.

    Steve Kurtz
    Maine

  • http://www.population-growth-migration.eu John Barker

    Steven K. Thank you for your thoughtful comments. Your comment on ecosystems – local effects. Yes, this suggests an arrow needs to go from ‘climate change’ to ‘within nations’ conflict. Perhaps your comment on climate change suggests the same there. In the diagram I was trying to keep as simple as possible, by just mentioning main effects. But perhaps, in addition to the arrows I have at the moment, there should be arrows from all four factors under the top heading to conflict ‘within nations’. Also, arrow heads on the two conflict line lines would improve things. ‘Food stock depletion’ – yes, they are being constantly used and replenished, but there are, repeat are stocks, and I don’t think any change is needed here without making the diagram unnecessarily complicated. John Barker. 7th Nov. 2011.

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