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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (795)4/11/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: pezz  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
Ron, Ron, Ron, You can't be serious about a war or plague to control world populations. How about if you were one of the victims,huh?? Or maybe your family? Would you be so insensitive then? I get the feeling that when you are talking this way you mean war and pestilence for other countries not the good old USA. Could it be? All this misery to avoid large families?
<<Why is that highly developed economies are extremely dependent upon immigration
to meet their economic labor requirements??>> This is of course a gross overstatement of the problem. These societies are simply trying to keep the prices of certain goods competitive and thus sustain unrealistic economic growth. One thing that all will have to learn is that we cannot continue to borrow from the future in hopes of more, more.
<<Were I a true environmentalist, I would be engaging in planned exterminations of
entire nations of people who, like a cancer, were polluting the earth through their
own cultural, religious, and societal ignorance.>> Gee, Ron if I were to take this ridiculous statement at face value. I would guess that you would be talking about the USA. We are only 5% of the worlds population and produce 25% of the worlds pollution and use 25% of her resources........so.
<<Just who do you plan to prevent from reproducing??>> Limiting families to two children isn't preventing any body from reproducing now is it? This could be done with simple changes in the tax laws or other such measures that take away rewards for having large families. It would apply to all. No drastic government controlling laws would be necessary.
I have tried to address your main points. Now how about affording me the same courtesy. When is enough enough? Do you agree that some day we will need zero population growth or does the population grow until we don't have enough room to stand on? If not now, when!!
pez
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