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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (8536)	12/29/2004 2:48:34 AM
From: axial	Respond to of 46821

Hi Ray - "Wouldn't it be more sane to limit human population growth than to continue to irrevocably strip mine the planet's finite resources..." Yes, it would. Who do we phone? Population became self-limiting with the advent of the pill in Europe, the UK and North America. Paradoxically, those nations that could best afford population growth grew the least, probably the aggregate of individual decisions. People decided not to prejudice their own prosperity with too many children. The outcome was that those nations soon found themselves with declining, aging populations, and a need for unskilled labour. To solve their problem, they looked to immigration which they got from nations with strongly-growing populations. That resulted in large expatriate populations within the more advanced nations. Their still-high growth rates and cultural predelictions challenge the balance of power - perhaps even the underlying national precepts - within the host countries. This, the legitimate result of large blocs voting democratically within these countries. Talk about yer unintended consequences. Meanwhile poor, undeveloped countries retain the highest population growth rates; their favourite immigration destinations are "have" countries (despite the rhetoric against them). "Not having" seems to spur population growth; "having" seems to limit it. Self-interest is a powerful motivator, or so it seems. Jim