I waould like to put in perspective the impact of increase populatiion over the environment. In a book called TAking population out of the equation(I do not have the reference with me right now), the authorsa clearly demonstrated that if it was true that increase population have an impact over the environment, the consumption patterns in western civlilizations have far larger impact over the environment and earth resources than the increases in population. My argument is that presenting this increase of population impact over the environment, as presented in thsi mail, is one sided and ideollogically motivated. I am not going to denied my own politcal bias because I have them, especially coming from a place that have been always said that because we are overpopulated we are poor and we do not seem to enjoy the economic growth that western countries have. For that reason a considereable percentage of Puerot Rican women were sterilize and a massive immigration policy was set up by the US goverment and pPuerto Rcian government, to support the infamous ZERO POPULATION GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY. The issues are more complex that the ideological arguments that put population gorwth at the top of the environmental threats but at the ens they are very complicated and ideas and polcies should be evaluated closely and carefully. Carlos R. Alicea On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, EMILIE STORY wrote: > Population and the Environment: > Take Action! > > Save lives and protect the environment! How? Become one of > more than 550 members of our Fast Action Network! > > World population is still growing by more than 81 million people a year. > This puts huge pressures on our Earth. Family planning could prevent > these pregnancies, and save many women's lives. It is cheap, needed, > and too often unavailable. The Fast Action Network is a nationwide > phone, e-mail, and fax network that pushes our government to do its fair > share toward making voluntary family planning available to everyone. It is > good for people, and good for the planet! > > Want to become more involved? Choose one of three levels: > State Coordinator: Fax machine/email needed for this. On short notice, > you will receive a fax or an email with the details of an urgent message. > You need to call your legislator -let him or her know how you feel- and > then pass the message on to five District Coordinators, either by fax, > email or phone. > > District Coordinator: You will get a call, email or fax from the State > Coordinator assigned to you. Call your legislator, and then pass the > message on to five Fast Action Callers by phone or fax. > > Fast Action Caller: You will get a phone call or fax from your District > Coordinator. All you need to do is call your legislator. > > For each person who receives a fax, we hope to generate 31messages > to Capitol Hill in less time than it would take one person to write, address > and mail a letter. Congressional staff tell us that this kind of action makes > a difference! > > Questions or comments? Contact Andreas Kristinus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >
