>From: Milton Takei
>
> 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.
Yes. At first your statement above doesn't seem to square with your
statement below, because "we've" always logically assumed the other side of
the coin is not true. Yet both statements are accurate. I have had the same
problem in trying to convince others about population relationships to
equitable food distributionl, sanitation, etc.
> 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
Yeah. It does, doesn't it?
Good post, Milton.
Tom
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