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To: dybdahl who wrote (7494)	5/20/2008 2:00:44 AM
From: RJA_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71475

>>Maybe the real solution is to lower the U.S. population to 150 mio. It can easily be argued that quality of life is related to population. In places like Bangladesh, easy to see. Quantity of resources, including space, vs consumers. However, also true in China, yet living standards are generally improving... Same could be said of Hong Kong... but only more so. I personally do not believe humans have evolved to live in large packed cities.... those only seem to be inventions of the last 2 or 3 hundred years... a blink of an eye in terms of evolution. IMHO we do not function well in such environments. I myself live in a town of 2200... I am in municipal government as an elected official (you could say, a petty politician). I would say the problems in a town of this size are manageable... whereas the problems in a city of several million, perhaps are not... there are only attempts at management or control. Some successful, some not. As for lowering population, I have thought this would be best since my late teens... some 42 years ago. How do you propose to do it, given the attitude of the religious right? There is an attempt here in Colorado by same, to define a fertilized egg as a person, by constitutional amendment... with all the implications for terminating same. There was an interesting interview in the last few days of Jim Dines who said among other things that Malthus was right... that population will and is exceeding world food production. The signs are here that it is exceeding world conventional energy production... Population problems in living systems are often self correcting... The question being -- will the correction occur rationally and intelligently -- as in planned parenthood, or with brutality and misery as in famine and pestilence? The religious right would pray on it.