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To: greenspirit who wrote (7181)	6/8/2000 11:41:00 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Predictions look like the worlds population will level off at around 8 billion people in 2040, then start reversing itself. Really ? You mean once I die, then it will become better ? But I doubt that it will level off. Not according to this: (it only goes to Dec 31st 2037) and it says we will be just shy of 10.5 Billion. metalab.unc.edu

To: greenspirit who wrote (7181)	6/9/2000 2:03:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Stealing women from places like Vietnam and then forcing them to become wives, will become a huge problem as the century unfolds. They won't have to steal them. They will buy them. Unrestrained population growth in the poorer Asian countries assures an abundant supply and will keep the prices down. It is of course well known that in any culture, education and prosperity create lower birth rates. The problem here is that just when technology is enormously increasing the need for skilled workers and reducing the need for unskilled ones, the people with the wherewithal to educate their children are producing fewer children and the people who lack the wherewithal are producing more, leaving the world with too few of the people it needs and too many of those it doesn't. Negative population growth rates and aging populations in Europe and Japan are not really problems for the Europeans and Japanese: all they will have to do to compensate is relax their immigration restrictions, and admit skilled and educated people from the poor countries. This, of course, accelerates the brain drain that is already such a huge problem in the developing world. That is much more likely to bacome a huge problem than wife-stealing. None of this has anything to do with the fact that contraceptive services are desperately needed in many countries, and that in many of those countries, particularly Latin America and the Philippines, the Catholic Church is doing a great deal to prevent these services from being delivered. Excess population may or may not be or become a problem on a worldwide scale; that doesn't mean that it isn't a growing problem in Mexico, the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, etc....