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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: somethingwicked who wrote (788)	4/11/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

<<Hey Ron, the salient point is that there are some things we can do something about and some things we can't. Your concern is well taken, however. That knock at your door could be the castration police (no more than two kids for Ron)!>> Luckily we dont live in China, which has real environmental worries, namely a bill and a half people that near the carrying capacity for the Chinese mainland. Now that is an environmental problem.

To: somethingwicked who wrote (788)	4/11/1999 12:19:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 36917

That knock at your door could be the castration police (no more than two kids for Ron)! Why are you discriminating against me!!!!?? I can't HAVE children. I can only MAKE them.... <VBG> As for salient points, there is a balance that must be struck between various elements of nature, of which like it or not, humanity is a part. The most basic instinct of humanity, as well as the rest of the animal kingdom, is procreation. Less developed populations face different challenges than mechanized ones. They face a higher infant mortality rate, manpower intensive industries such as antiquated agriculture, and a lack of "social security", all of which require the creation of large family units to support the household. They also lack prophylactic or cultural incentives to lessen the procreative urge, many of which were shared by the early immigrants/settlers of the US. Only when societies become modern do they start worrying more about their quality of living, rather than the struggle of living. And quality of life issues are what drive environmentalist thinking. Regards, Ron