By Jamie Mobley
The Gazette-Enterprise
Published April 2, 2006
AUSTIN — A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead.
“Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine,” Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. Edward’s University on Friday. Pianka’s words are part of what he calls his “doomsday talk” — a 45-minute presentation outlining humanity’s ecological misdeeds and Pianka’s predictions about how nature, or perhaps humans themselves, will exterminate all but a fraction of civilization.
Though his statements are admittedly bold, heÂ’s not without abundant advocates. But what may set this revered biologist apart from other doomsday soothsayers is this: HumanityÂ’s collapse is a notion he embraces.
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