..the underclass need not be a permanent fixture in the social
order, but its disappearance will not be due to actions to uplift the
working class. Rather it will be due to what amounts to a genocidal
strategy...
From An American Dilemma Revisted, ed. Obie Clayton, Jr Russel Sage, 1996.
On the
At 10:14 AM 3/7/97 -0800, Dave Anderson wrote:
>
>Re:Ralph Suter saying population control advocates being unfairly labelled
>as racist...He might be right that some people have been but there
>definitely is a problem. I'm not all that informed on the subject but
>reading M
Re:Ralph Suter saying population control advocates being unfairly labelled
as racist...He might be right that some people have been but there
definitely is a problem. I'm not all that informed on the subject but
reading Michael Novick's book "White Lies, White Power" and &quo
our recent article on population control, but
>your comments would in fact make a good response to it, and if possible,
>I would like to publish some version of them in the next issue of the magazine.
>Please let me know if you might be interested.
>Thanks.
>Betsy Reed, editor
>
Eban Goodstein:
I don't know whether you saw our recent article on population control, but
your comments would in fact make a good response to it, and if possible,
I would like to publish some version of them in the next issue of the magazine.
Please let me know if you might be inter
To my earlier statement: "population is not a problem-- poverty is", Eban
Goodstein observes: "My own view is that population growth is better seen as
one of the 'real' issues in its own right." I think we getting at the basic
question in the debate. Though I do not have a firm opinion on this iss
I concur with Eban that we should "put our energies into seeing that
population control is not about control, but instead, about choice."
Unfortunately, "choice" often becomes code for "control" in lower
income country settings.
The population problem is indi
on by 3% per year in real terms. Obviously Zambia's
current situation has been largely determined by its colonial
history, but from a practical perspective, population control has
got to be part of the solution. [Musambachime, Mwelma (1990).
"The Impact of Rapid Population Growth on
