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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)



Joan Shields (joan@med.unc.edu) wrote:

: I guess now wouldn't be a good time to note that it's been observed time
: and time again that when women of a country gain social, economic, and
: political power that birth rates tend to decline.  As a matter of fact,
: birth rates in third world countries are at present declining.

 It is always a good time to note a fact.  Just like that time and 
 time again it has been noted that when people are given a lot of
 money they become rich.  A fact but hardly surprising, is it?

 I believe that like any other thing in the world, given an excess
 supply, prices tend to go through the floor.  Women, children, men,
 people - they too have a price.  And given overpopulation, they are
 priced less than cattle.  I am not willing to wait for that day when
 rising economic standards will bring about a drop in fertility rates
 because at the rate at which the third world is going, kingdom come
 will be sooner than the day when the rising living standards are able
 to restrict the population.  

 So the question is whether in fact women will have social, economic
 and political power in the third world?  Not at the rate at which
 they are kept opressed, pregnant and uneducated.  Restrict the birth
 rate and people will be valued in the third world and whether man,
 woman or child, they will have a decent shot at living like a human.

 Atanu


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