NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/or/politics/686

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From: [e-mail] (Robert Reed)
Subject: Re: VOTE, BABY, VOTE!
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Reply-To: [e-mail] (Robert Reed)
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:34:30 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
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|We don't have an overpopulation problem yet.  We could have one someday, in
|fact we will if things don't get under control, but we're not at a crisis
|point yet.

Nuh-uh-uh.  In fact, I think it was just today that a group representing 150
Nobel Laureates had a press conference to announce their concerns about
population and destruction of the world ecosystem.  Their claim is that we need
to make significant changes to our collective behavior in this generation or
risk catastrophic changes to the world environment.

|Just go out to Wyoming or Montana, and you'll see that there's
|still plenty of room.  People are crowded together because they choose to
|live in popular areas.  (Or perhaps are forced to live in those areas by
|economic necessity, that is, the jobs are there.)

The threat is NOT from overcrowding, but from resource depletion and pollution,
which are starting to cause real problems, even in Wyoming and Montana.

|I acknowledge the need to control population growth, but I will fiercely
|oppose population control by force, until it becomes absolutely, absolutely
|necessary.

It is already absolutely necessary.  If you cannot yet detect the symptoms, I
dare say nothing will ever convince you.

|There is a tremendous amount we can do through education first.  The biggest
|population problems are in third world countries, where people generally
|aren't well educated as to birth control, or don't have access to it.

The greatest OVERCROWDING is in the third world, but cruel as it may sound,
overpopulation here is not as much of a problem because these populations have
not acquired the technology to prevent mass starvation, and so are still
subject to the natural retardants to population growth.

Populations in the highly industrialized countries, however, have sufficient
technology to shield themselves from the immediate effects of resource
depletion, at least temporarily on the global time scale.  But in the lag
between our resource consumption and its eventual effects, we consume per
capita much much more nonrenewable resources than third world populations and
so exacerbate the problem much more quickly than they do.  Population control
in the developed countries therefore has and will have a much more significant
impact on the problems our planetary population faces.
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Robert Reed            Home Animation Ltd.        503-656-8414
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With a woman president, there would never be any wars, just every 28 days
some intense negotiations.
--Robin Williams
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