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To: Ish who wrote (22857)	6/11/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I have a child; I plan on another. But what you're saying suggests I'm applying a double standard. I'm not (that I see anyway). I'm not suggesting that I have any more or less of a right to breed than "the other guy". My child hurts the environment no more or less tan the other guy's. Maybe less, if she doesn't take up slash&burn agriculture as a profession. If fertility controls are ever imposed, though - they will have to be evenly applied all at once, for reasons of fairness. In the West a sort of voluntary population control has set in. Europe, Japan and the USA see their demographics grow by immigration, not new births. (Or old births for that matter :-)) The ones with the big families often are poor or religious. "China is almost out of water." That can be solved one of two ways. Either you work to limit population growth. Or you work to reduce the per capita water consumption. The second solution is expensive if standards of living (none too high in China) are going to be maintained. I doubt China can pay for that level of modernization.