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To: epicure who wrote (46844)	7/24/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

As you probably know, the most economically advanced countries are the one's with the fewest children, in many instances below the rate of replacement, and there is a positive correlation between growth in GDP and reduction in the number of live births, so it is likely enough that prosperity, perhaps mingled with some propaganda, will do the trick there. (Surely voluntary methods are preferable to forced contraception?) Otherwise, the Club of Rome stuff is overblown. Heck, they were predicting such rapid depletion of oil reserves, when I was in college, that we would be out about now. But then, they found new reserves in Alaska, and the North Sea, and now the Caspian, and so on...and voila, a glut! The truth is that no one knows enough to say, and that technological development, by reducing the costs of production and permitting us new means of solving problems, is the best hope for the planet...