Alison Croggon wrote:
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> Whew, Josephine, are you really trying to line up with the Moral
> Majority...
Not at all. My observation is that nearly every 'problem' we
have could be solved by reducing the world's population. I'm
thinking about things like environmental sustainability and
competition for limited resources.
The aids reference was to do with ecosystems. Generally if a
population of a species becomes too large, nature adjusts by
a plague or other natural mechanism to bring things back
into balance. In man's case this includes war. We have
removed most of natures checks against mankind's
overpopulation by not sending our surplus males to die in
hand to hand warfare and by so called 'improvements' in
medicine. Aids is the latest equivalent of the black death,
I wasnt making a moral judgement about sexual preferences.
And I'm not proposing we go out and kill people David,
(though I have a personal wishlist of who would be in the
75% *grin*). The Chinese tried to reduce their population by
restricting birth control to one shild per family. THey are
on the right track. THey just have to accept that 51% of
babies are female...
No, its a nice thought, but the mechanics of how to reduce
by 75% is beyond me.
I dont know otiose? ANd doesn't decimate mean to reduce by
10% only - I see this misused a lot.
Not meaning to offend here, just trying to be brief - I'm
very busy for the next few days and havent got the time to
say what I really want to say the way I would like to say
it. SOrry for the misunderstanding.
I'll shut up and get back to my task for a while
Josie
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