To crashlist subscribers:
Too many people assume the existence of population growth without
asking how it originates. I find myself explaining over and over that the
relationship between infant mortality and population growth is not what
many people expect: as the infant mortality rate declines, population
growth also declines.
Parents wish for at least one of their children to outlive them,
but in many countries, they face great uncertainty regarding whether their
children will survive. Thus, to be on the safe side, they have more
children than they really want. The relationship between infant mortality
and population growth has been known for over thirty years, yet has not
penetrated very far into popular consciousness. See: _Demography,_
vol. 5, no. 1 (1968), pp. 104-121.
In _The Geopolitics of Hunger,_ (1977), pp. 281-282, Josue de Castro argues
that overpopulation does not cause hunger; rather, hunger causes
overpopulation. A failure to take care of the basic needs of humans harms
all of the natural world.
--Milton Takei
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