Original Message: ----------------- From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:41:33 -0700 (PDT) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: culling the species
Trying to start on the massive baglog of posts to which I wish to reply- > Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, jon louis mann wrote: > > empowering women is definitely a pragmatic > solution. protecting > > children, ending polygamy and legalizing same sex > marriage, also... >Best-case scenario for population reduction is >education and economic empowerment for women, as I >think Pat pointed out. I don't really think the fact that the US has a ZPG fertility rate of 2.1 while Europe and Japan are at 1.5 and 1.22, respectively is the result of Japanese women being the most liberated of the three developed countries/ecconomic unions. Indeed, the EU and Japan are going to be in very interesting positions in 20-50 years, with a population that is highly skewed towards the aged and is shrinking. The EU's population can be expected to drop almost 30% every generation while Japan's will drop over 40%. It is clear that, unless these countries/regions show explosive increases in their productivity, their GDP will become stagnent and their relative influence in the world will fall. Dan M. -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
