I wonder what solutions Mr. Buchanna proposes?

I was browsing through Julia's copy of Wilson's _Consilience_ a few days
ago, and based on an admittedly cursory inspection, it appears to me that
Buchannan and Wilson are worried about the same phenomena from polar
opposite perspectives.

The phenomena is a rapidly growing world population in which competitions
for resources and ethnic dominance will be exacerbated by the universal
desire to achieve western standards of wealth.  Wilson forsees the
consequences in terms of war, famine, disease, and environmental ruin, the
chief tragedies being long-term damage to the earth and the suffering of
billions of people in the developing nations.  Buchannan appears to see
the chief tragedy as the possible demise of white Christian conservatism
(i.e. "Western Civilization" aka the GOP).


Marvin Long
Austin, Texas


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