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To: one_less who wrote (21154)	7/11/2005 3:29:25 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Hmm. One possible result of this imbalance may be the (further, in some cases) subjugation of women, treating them more as property so that the men who control them, rather than the women themselves, can benefit from their relative scarcity. Just a thought. Know what the ratio is in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan?

To: one_less who wrote (21154)	7/13/2005 1:10:43 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

”Not for long. The birth rate ratio in China and India is 115 boys to 100 girls” I read somewhere the other day that we are still able (technically) to produce enough resources to nourish the one billion who are undernourished and the tens of thousands of babies who die each day from malnutrition or related diseases. But “technically” does not solve the problem. India is expected to surpass China in population in a few decades. Currently, well over 100,000 homeless and starving pay “rent” to sleep on a portion of Bombay sidewalks. Regardless, of our technical ability to currently feed the planet, there is naturally a point of population where it is simply impossible to sustain the existence of all the people. So we can either continue to let famine, disease, and war act as population control…or we can start using birth control.