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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)
On 1 Dec 1996 01:49:44 GMT, "Rick & Bea Tarara" <rbtarara@sprynet.com>
wrote:
>Now is a fine time to bring this up. It's both a phenomenon of women
>gaining power and the advance of economies/technologies in a given country
>that leads to lower birth rates. The problem still exists, however, that
>to attain the economic/technological/social advancements requires available
>money and ENERGY (I'm reading this on SCI-ENERGY). While 'western' level
>living standards would also do a lot to lower the population growth rates,
>are there enough resources (money, energy, raw materials, etc.) available
>for this to happen in the near term, before populations swell out of
>control in these third world nations?
A minor point and a major one:
Money is not a resource, any more than inches are. Money is a measure
of resources brought to market.
As for populations swelling out of control, it ain't a problem. The
problem is trawlers with un-regulated gaping nets, smokestacks
poisoning everybody downwind, and millions upon millions of
induustrial farmers polluting the land with pounds of chemicals where
frctions of ounces are called for.
None of these, you will notice, are errors being committed by "these
third world nations."
-dlj.
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