At 11:34 AM 3/8/98 -1000, Jay Hanson wrote:
>This is self-evidently true. Feeding them WILL ultimately increase
>starvation and death unless, as part of the deal, they are stopped
>from reproducing.
There are many factors behind population growth. As always, we should ask
ourselves who is the "they" in this argument. It isn't, apparently, a "we".
Poverty and birth rates are related, but the implication seems to me to be
equally, "if you take care of the population, the population will take care
of itself". Should Jay Hanson or John Hollingsworth be kept from
reproducing? Who's going to enforce that edict?
I would suggest that a balanced interventionist approach, combining family
planning, food security, and democratic development in the interests of the
developing community, would do a lot more to avert mass die-off than any of
the prescriptions of lifeboat ethicists.
In the spirit of friendly debate,
John
John Hollingsworth (613) 231-2431
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2-216 James St. K1R 5M7
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