On Sat, 04 Oct 2003, Harry Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pete,
You say:
"People have been wringing their hands about the profligate breeding which has led to this situation for over forty years."
And:
"Now, suddenly the message is getting through, and people are curbing their fecundity . . ."
No one I know has been wringing their hands.
You've never heard of "ZPG" - the Zero Population Growth Society? How about "The Population Bomb"? Come on. Or do you mean "none of my personal acquaintances"?
Any diminishing fecundity is the result of a higher standard of living and is the choice of people who simply cannot enjoy these living standards while having children.
Absolutely. But the fact that a high standard of living is associated with a smaller number of children, is linked to
the concept that above a certain point, a large population degrades everyone's standard of living. I don't believe that people
are acting with complete disregard for this consideration.
However, the Africans for example are increasing population as an astounding rate -- this in spite of AIDS, pneumonia, TB, and the other inflictions of that unhappy continent.
The way to handle the increasing population of the Third World is for them to improve their standard of living. Then, when they have learned to enjoy better living conditions, it is likely they will reduce the number of children because they are too expensive to produce.
I agree with this also.
-Pete
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