uphold and fight for some snails life, being of great importance
and right to live, yet believe it is okay to kill babies.
I would have to say "I disagree!" the Netiqutte rules govern my
language. There is a massive over population problem on this planet
and it is not the snails. Nuff said?
Brian Rodgers
Not 'nuff said. The massive overpopulation problem on this planet is
a myth. From a previous message, rather than having to thrash it out
all over again:
The overpopulation problem is more realistically a marginalisation
problem. There's plenty of room and resources for everyone and
everything else too, except the greedy. Check it out -
eco-footprinting's a not-bad place to start, it's developed a lot in
recent years. Look at which societies exceed their due allotment and
which don't, check the groups within those societies which exceed
their due allotment and which don't.
"Myth 3 - Too Many People. Reality: Birth rates are falling rapidly
worldwide as remaining regions of the Third World begin the
demographic transition -- when birth rates drop in response to an
earlier decline in death rates. Although rapid population growth
remains a serious concern in many countries, nowhere does population
density explain hunger. For every Bangladesh, a densely populated
and hungry country, we find a Nigeria, Brazil or Bolivia, where
abundant food resources coexist with hunger. Costa Rica, with only
half of Honduras' cropped acres per person, boasts a life expectancy
-- one indicator of nutrition -- 11 years longer than that of
Honduras and close to that of developed countries. Rapid population
growth is not the root cause of hunger. Like hunger itself, it
results from underlying inequities that deprive people, especially
poor women, of economic opportunity and security. Rapid population
growth and hunger are endemic to societies where land ownership,
jobs, education, health care, and old age security are beyond the
reach of most people. Those Third World societies with dramatically
successful early and rapid reductions of population growth rates --
China, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Cuba and the Indian state of Kerala --
prove that the lives of the poor, especially poor women, must
improve before they can choose to have fewer children."
http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/1998/s98v5n3.html
12 Myths About Hunger
There's a very large amount of evidence for that.
"A smaller increase in production would suffice if its growth were
accompanied by more equitable access to food. This could be achieved
through redistribution - of food itself, of the means of producing
it or of the purchasing power needed to buy it -- to those currently
on the lower rungs of the food access ladder." Unfortunately, the
experience of the past thirty years shows no significant decline in
inequity of access among households in most countries." -- FAO
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/OIS/PRESS_NE/PRESSENG/2001/pren0169.htm
"Overpopulation" is a symptom, just as poverty and hunger are
symptoms, and the cause is an inequitable economic system. If
overpopulation were a reality it would indeed be an intractable
problem; if poverty and hunger existed, and increased as they do,
because there just wasn't enough to go round, that too would be an
intractable problem. But a dysfunctional economic system is not an
intractable problem.
http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg32911.html
Re: [biofuel] The Oil we eat (Harper's)
Best wishes
Keith
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