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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (65558)	1/12/2003 2:35:57 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

My point on the population problem is that most of the population increase will occur in the 3rd. world. If true, how do you solve it? We know that people in poverty tend to have more children, due to the higher death rate among their kids, and their perceived need for the kid's labor to help them out. So sending in Social Workers to hand out condoms has had little or no effect on the overall birth rate. Maybe you can hope that Malthus will turn out to be right, and that famine and Aids will knock off a lot of the "little brown people." The dramatic increase in deaths due to Malaria, after the Environmentalists got DDT banned, has been helpful. The Environmentalist's efforts in getting African countries to refuse to feed their starving people GM food should also help to keep the population down. But to make any long term difference, I think you are going to have to figure out why the birth rate in Industrialized Countries is so low, and why they do not have famines. Then go and apply the same solutions to the third world.

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