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1998-12-05 Thread Schall Willmore, Melissa
Oh Angela! Imposition is a poor choice of words. Who do you think will be imposed the most if we continue having children the way that we are? It probably won't be us, but it very well may be our children or our grandchildren. If you want to have lots of kids adopt. Do you feel the need to

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1998-10-23 Thread bunny
Angela wrote: Keep up the good work for the women, the animals and the Earth and please try to remember that just because I am Christian does not mean that I dogmatic - do you understand that? ++In my opinion, YOUR views are dogmatic. Marguerite

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1998-10-23 Thread Ecolady
In a message dated 98-10-22 15:13:31 EDT, you write: Let's try it first, before we gratuitously declare it impossible, shall we? Joe Try what - mandatory population control? That IS what I was referring to - I am for voluntary population limitation not mandatory control. If we were

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1998-10-22 Thread bunny
The fact of the matter is that over-population is the most significant threat to Planet Earth. Therefore the there is an urgency for population control NO it is not! The current, most pressing threat is ANARCHISM - the elite power hungry, over zealous, spiritually deprieved, greedy, corrupt

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1998-10-22 Thread bunny
In a message dated 98-10-21 19:40:18 EDT, you write: From sex, people experience pleasure and closeness People also find pleasure and closeness in drug addiction - Does that make it right? Not saying that sex is not right - however, just because something brings pleasure and closeness

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1998-10-21 Thread bunny
In a message dated 98-10-20 01:32:07 EDT, you write: I believe that humans have the power to determine their own destiny. Hi! How then do humans have the power over the rest of nature? Isn't nature part of our destiny? ++Humans have immense power to destroy this planet through

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1998-10-21 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 06:03:32 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Family size etc. In a message dated 98-10-20 17:42:01

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1998-10-20 Thread Ecolady
In a message dated 98-10-20 01:32:07 EDT, you write: I believe that humans have the power to determine their own destiny. Hi! How then do humans have the power over the rest of nature? Isn't nature part of our destiny? Re: you post about abortion and unwanted pregnancies - you are

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1998-10-20 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:27:36 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Family size etc. In a message dated 98-10-20 01:32:07

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1998-10-19 Thread Ecolady
In a message dated 98-10-18 18:50:40 EDT, you write: No we dont know that it isnt an entirely heterosexual problem it ISNT it is a HUMAN problem. Everyone is involved --even those childless and will remain so thank you very much (talking personally here). I agree! It is a human problem!

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1998-10-19 Thread bunny
Angela wroteHello? I am Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-peace without violence! I was implying that even those yet in womb may have rights. Do we know for sure that they do not? How can we guarantee to the people who believe in eternal life that life yet to be has not been planned in advance by a

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1998-10-19 Thread Bertina Miller
Hear hear! Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, bunny wrote: Angela wroteHello? I am Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-peace without violence! I was implying that even those yet in womb may have rights. Do we know for sure that they do not? How can we guarantee to the people who

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1998-10-19 Thread Candi Chruchill
IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-16 12:57:01 EDT, you write: Some might decide never to have children, just as some straight people might decide this. Some of us might want many children. Hi! Candi - I did not mean to sound biased

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1998-10-19 Thread Candi Chruchill
down, while he does not. Just some food for thought, Candi -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 1:45 PM To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT Subject: RE: family size,etc. Why do these discussions always turn into a ranting and raving scream fest? Discuss but stop

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1998-10-19 Thread J Ashmore
ot; [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:37:50 -0500 Subject: Re: family size,etc. Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:33:45 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL

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1998-10-19 Thread Candi Chruchill
:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-16 14:31:06 EDT, you write: rom: Sarah Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: family size,etc. Originally to: "'[EMAIL PROT

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1998-10-19 Thread Ecolady
In a message dated 98-10-19 11:19:55 EDT, you write: Angela, This topic involves everyone and same-sex couples CAN decide to have children (through pro-creation, adoption, foster care). What do you call it if the male partner in a heterosexual relationship cannot fertilize a woman if

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1998-10-19 Thread Ecolady
In a message dated 98-10-19 11:42:09 EDT, you write: Well said angela! I hope you don't change your mind and get pissed at me for my previous message! It is all part of our struggle to learn and grow, right? Candi Churchill Hi! Candi, I'm not angry - but I would prefer to not be

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1998-10-19 Thread IH8Lindros
who r u From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 19 17:02:49 1998 From: "Joe E. Dees" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:03:00 -0500 Subject: Re: re family size etc. Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Angela, check the front of the bus. Ma

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1998-10-19 Thread Joe E. Dees
Hear,hear, bunny! "God'll work it all out for the best" is a soothing way to avoid responsibility for doing nothing. As for the prolifers among you, here's a poem. The Fundamentals by Joe E. Dees "Abortion is murder!" the witch-burners bay As they kneel on their hard wooden floors

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1998-10-18 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:44:43 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-17 16:58:01

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
I think at one time many environmenalists were hindered by people stating "oh it isnt all that bad" "the ozone layer is still viable" "businesses release ozone as well as pollutants" excuses as to people feel environmentalists are just doomsayers and are pessimistic. I always felt we are

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
Angela you ever heard of getting pregnant through in vitro fertilization? Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 98-10-16 12:57:01 EDT, you write: Some might decide never to have children, just as some straight people might decide

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
Angela I was the fourth of five children I wouldnt have been born if MY PARENTS decided not to have more than 2 children. I can *Live* with that choice that my parents didnt opt for, why cant you? Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
Progression also means overpopulation. Enough said! Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 98-10-16 13:46:14 EDT, you write: And a dying ecosystem is going to support the infrastructure for all these good jobs for these teeming

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: family size,etc. Originally to: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do these discussions always turn into a ranting and raving scream fest? Discuss but stop getting so personal and angry. I think most of us basic

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
Again EXACTOMONT! Beautiful! Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 98-10-16 16:40:50 EDT, you write: i agreeif we cant begin to create a safe space here in which to learn together-collaboratively-, how are we ever ever going to

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
Sorry Angela missed again--wasnt that a song -OT. Anyhoo--NO a homosexual can donate his/her egg/sperm to a homosexual couple for birthing purposes. Spreading the Joy of Enlightenment, Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 98-10-16 21:42:11

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
Exsqueese me but 2 adults with children make a family Angela --doesnt matter if there gay bi straight transgendered funky or atheist. Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Why would a lesbian and gay man decide to have a baby? What kind of family life

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
No mandates but families choice has always been what I was talking about! Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 98-10-17 13:35:48 EDT, you write: Please enlighten us as to the particular dogma that demands you take such an

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
Boy did you hit the nail on the head Joe! Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Joe E. Dees wrote: The central insight of the deep ecology movement is that the most stubborn and subtle (subliminal) form of racism is HUMAN racism - the attitude that humans are for some reason

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1998-10-18 Thread Ecolady
] Subject: Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-18 16:58:56 EDT, you write: I think at one time many environmenalists were hindered by people stating "oh it isnt all that bad" "the ozone layer is still viable" "businesses release ozone as well as pollutants&q

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1998-10-18 Thread Ecolady
In a message dated 98-10-18 17:08:13 EDT, you write: Angela you ever heard of getting pregnant through in vitro fertilization? Yes, I have - however, I am not educated enough on this subject to comment on it. I was trying to say that if you bring a child into the world it is different

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1998-10-18 Thread Ecolady
1998 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:59:46 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-18 17:10:18 EDT, you write: Angela I was the fourth of five children I wouldnt have been born if MY PARENTS decided not to have more than 2 children. I

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
No we dont know that it isnt an entirely heterosexual problem it ISNT it is a HUMAN problem. Everyone is involved --even those childless and will remain so thank you very much (talking personally here). Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
Exactly! bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 98-10-18 17:13:09 EDT, you write: Progression also means overpopulation. Enough said! Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe there should be a bumper sticker: "Populate wisely - the

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1998-10-18 Thread Bertina Miller
No that is my point I would not be here and I am willing to live or die as the case may be (or possibly -I am willing to not have lived?). I wouldnt care if i didnt exist because I would not have been born! I am an atheist and I of course believe that "I think therefore I am" applies in this

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1998-10-18 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:46:32 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-18 13:24:51

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1998-10-17 Thread Ecolady
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: family size,etc. In fact...two good friends of mine, a lesbian and a gay man have a baby together; and it was NOT adopted. So, Angela, that's how queers can DECIDE to HAVE children. dp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 98-10-16 12:57:01 EDT, you write

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1998-10-17 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:40:41 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-16 21:42:11

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1998-10-17 Thread Ecolady
] Sat Oct 17 14:15:46 1998 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:11:45 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-17 13:35:48 EDT, you write: Please enlighten us as to the particular dogma that demands you take such an anti-ecological

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1998-10-17 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:17:53 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-17 14:37:23

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1998-10-17 Thread Joe E. Dees
: Re: family size,etc. In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is one of the most heterosexist comments I have ever heard... *** *Miguel A Ordorica* *Washington State University

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1998-10-16 Thread Danne Polk
This thread has been so extremely heteronormative and heterosexist. dp

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1998-10-16 Thread Ecolady
ren at this time - Now we tell the people (and help them) who do not know the who, what, where and why of overpopulation and the eco-crisis - Get it? Thanks! Angela From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 16 09:01:55 1998 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:01:17 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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1998-10-16 Thread Candi Chruchill
I agree. Candi Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 8:30 AM To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT Subject:Re: family size,etc. This thread has been so extremely heteronormative and heterosexist. dp

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1998-10-16 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 06:10:22 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-15 21:14:54

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1998-10-16 Thread Candi Churchill
To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-16 08:27:32 EDT, you write: This thread has been so extremely heteronormative and heterosexist. dp I guess if you were homosexual you would automatically be for population control - no pro

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1998-10-16 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:51:47 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-16 08:39:12

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1998-10-16 Thread Sarah Martin
8 13:26:36 -0500 Subject: RE: family size,etc. Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:45:04 -0400 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sarah Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIE

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1998-10-16 Thread Ecolady
m. Thanks and Peace! Angela From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 16 18:07:28 1998 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:59:15 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-16 14:05:07 EDT, you write: I agree, except to assert that those who want man

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1998-10-16 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:59:15 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-16 14:05:07

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1998-10-15 Thread Ecolady
In a message dated 98-10-14 20:40:43 EDT, you write: The root cause of overpopulation is the vast number of nuts heedlessly sprouting; in other words, contraceptionless sex. Joe And what causes reproduction? Fertility - so blame life for life - makes no sense! Blame a lack of

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1998-10-15 Thread Bertina Miller
Angela do you even know how many working families are homeless? Working isnt "working"! Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 98-10-14 12:06:09 EDT, you write: "those poor uneducated, ignorant peasants" and that if we could just

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1998-10-15 Thread Katie Lynch
yes, a very nice ring.but i still feel that i would rather address the larger societal problems that create psychopath strangers in the first place (poverty, abuse, medical (political) system that turns out mentally ill patients due to lack of funding, etc), rather than empower my children

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1998-10-15 Thread Ecolady
In a message dated 98-10-15 08:20:13 EDT, you write: Angela do you even know how many working families are homeless? Working isnt "working"! Hi! What? I know that in many cases women and men are underpaid - but having any pay and being frugal about you life and your money can help. The

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1998-10-15 Thread Candi Chruchill
Wow Joe?so the root of all of the evils in society from corporate greed and environmental exploitation to poor governmental policies is all those stupid women who go around and fuck all the time without protection? Women heedlessly sprouting because putting your body through 9 months of

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1998-10-15 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 20:22:53 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-15 19:17:53

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1998-10-14 Thread Ecolady
Hi! Bertina, Melissa said that overpopulation is the cause of the current ecocrisis - I merely said that it was not at the root of the problem - that greed was. Starving children are a result of bad government, unequal distribution of wealth and uneducated population of underpaid immigrants . .

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1998-10-14 Thread Katie Lynch
Hello all- thought I would mention that it is important to realize that while education may be a necessary component to addressing overpopulation, it is not sufficient, and should not be promoted at the expense of ignoring larger political/economic issues. There is lots of research out there

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1998-10-14 Thread Ecolady
In a message dated 98-10-14 15:12:50 EDT, you write: And I am saying that overpopulation, poor governmental policies and unequal distribution of wealth (all of it) is the cause of the current ecocrisis. Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! Bertina, thanks for clearing that up. However

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1998-10-14 Thread Ecolady
E. Dees" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:18:49 -0500 Subject: Re: family size,etc. Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:42:55 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:

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1998-10-14 Thread Bertina Miller
Now you are getting into esoteric territory. Let's see, erm, is it EVIL?!? said the church lady (from Church Chat on SNL). Very funny sketch by Dana Carvey SNL alum. So funny I forgot to laugh! Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated

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1998-10-13 Thread Ecolady
this imposition? Thanks and Peace! Angela From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 13 08:37:10 1998 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:37:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Bertina Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: family size,etc. In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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1998-10-13 Thread Joe E. Dees
Date sent: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:44:16 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: family size,etc. In a message dated 98-10-13 10:42:29

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1998-10-13 Thread Ecolady
3 Oct 1998 17:03:34 -0500 Subject: Re: family size,etc. Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:34:11 EDT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND E

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1998-10-13 Thread Bertina Miller
nd because when (eco)feminists start advocating for population control without making these points, it is scary. Who will consider these things if WE aren't?! Candi Churchill -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 8:57 AM To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT Subject:

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1998-10-13 Thread Bertina Miller
If that is true Angela then what accounts for the starving children in our own country? Greed? Overpopulation? All of it is true. Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 98-10-13 10:42:29 EDT, you write: One of the main reasons we have an