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Re: The Limits To Growth
I remember when the ads urging aid to starving children had pictures
of South Korean children and when those who had opposed defeating the
North Korean conquest complained about South Korean workers being paid
$25 per month. Now labor costs in South Korea are $1500 per month,
and a South Korean company built a factory in Hanoi to make TV tubes.
In Hanoi the workers make $50 per month and never strike.
What made South Korea prosperous was capitalism, not population
control. South Korean women can and do control the sizes of their
families, and can afford the necessary pills.
No amount of depiction of starving children is a convincing argument
that your proposed remedy will work.
(I doubt that the Pope and Mother Theresa are helping solve the
problem of poverty any more than are the population control
enthusiasts).
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
a lot.
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