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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)
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Subject: Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)
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From: atanu@are.Berkeley.EDU (Atanu Dey)
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Date: 30 Nov 1996 04:38:53 GMT
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Article: 16773 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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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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