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To: RJA_ who wrote (7495)	5/20/2008 12:16:13 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 71475

Denmark has repeatedly been selected as the country with the highest quality of life, and at the same time it has been described by the U.S. ambassador as a tribe-like country. I think the trick is, that we have created a country that behaves the same way as a small town would do, with all the good and the bad. I say this as a response to your comment that humans were not designed to live in huge cities. With regard to how we can reduce the size of the population, I believe economic motivation is the primary key to this: The french reward children using tax reductions, but at the same time, kids are expensive. So only the richest have a suitable economy to have kids. This is very similar to the old european way of controlling population growth: In order to have kids, you should be married, and in order to marry, you should have some property. Only the richest had property. The downside of doing things like this, is that it involves a large number of human tragedies - but making kids expensive seems to be the only way to reduce population growth. The next question is, what about immigration. I guess USA has become restrictive on that issue lately, and so have many other countries. Climate changes will make this issue much bigger, especially for geographically small countries. But if USA would let all kinds of people in, I guess USA would quickly become a country of 1 billion people. It would be good for current RE owners, but it wouldn't be good for the future generations.