PROBLEM: A fragile ecosystem is being damaged by a burgeoning population.

TYPICAL LIBERAL SOLUTION: Enact federal regulations to ensure the environment is protected, and enforce those rules with powerful regulatory boards.

RESULT: Death becomes illegal:

There's no more room to bury the dead, they can't be cremated and laws forbid a new cemetery. So the mayor of this Brazilian farm town has proposed a solution: outlaw death.
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The bill, which sets no penalty for passing away, is meant to protest a federal law that has barred a new or expanded cemetery in Biritiba Mirim, a town of 28,000 people 45 miles east of Sao Paulo.

I sometimes think people will eventually learn their lesson. Then I look at the likes of moveon.org, the Democratic Underground, and Earth First and realize there's nothing quite as ignorant as a person who refuses to understand.