[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the above information. Even though birth control has not worked . . .
This is complete nonsense, by the way. Birth control has worked magnificently in every part of the world. It is one of the greatest triumphs of medical technology and public health in history. Without modern contraceptives, the population would have spiralled wildly out of control after 1850, and billions of people would have starved to death. The situation is bad now, with 2 billion people living in dire poverty. But without contraceptives the numbers would be far higher, and millions would die every day in unthinkable squalor. That is not happening. And the contrary, living conditions in China and India are gradually improving. Only in Africa are things going rapidly downhill, and this is mainly caused by genocidal wars which are deliberate policy.
Population is growing much too quickly in the Third World. The absolute number of new mouths to feed is still growing at record levels in most Third World countries. But the rate of population growth in every nation has fallen drastically, and this would not have happened without the widespread use of contraceptives. Population growth in Europe, the US and Japan has stabilized. In Japan the population last year declined for the first time in modern history. (Some Japanese leaders are upset about this but I think the country would be a lot more comfortable with about half the present population.) If the rest of the world shared our prosperity and good medical care, population everywhere would be stable, and pollution and pressure on the ecosystem would soon be greatly reduced.
- Jed
