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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!tillage!gil
- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <726210534snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <1993Jan4.205955.10722@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 05:08:54 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <1993Jan4.205955.10722@netcom.com> ladasky@netcom.com writes:
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- > For myself, I believe that history teaches us that improved
- > living standards are the cause, and that reduced population growth is the
- > effect. Yes, we need to educate and combat poverty first. However, I
- > think that history shows us that improving the quality of life RAISES
- > per capita consumption rates. Look at the United States. Imagine the
- > trouble we would have if the First World grew at Third World rates!
- > Therefore, population control IS a necessary precursor of an improved
- > environment.
-
- Frankly, looking at the United States rather distorts the view. There
- are plenty of countries from which data supporting a far more reliable
- analysis of normative trends can be gleaned, instead of just comparing
- on a simplistic polar dimension one extreme case with another.
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- The US for its part is burdened with the corruption and decay of far
- too much power underwritten by armed might, complicated by internal
- stresses generated by unresolved racial and social conflict, a burden
- I am sure Europe was finally very willing indeed to hand over so they
- would be free to get themselves sorted out.
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- There is simply not one chicken hatching from or laying one egg to
- puzzle over. There are billions of them, each grouped into vastly
- different circumstances which bear close examination, yes?
-
- Gil
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