Zero population growth

topic posted Fri, February 24, 2006 - 7:58 AM by  Yul
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I recently saw this David Susuki special on Link TV, and it reminded me that the best way for us to save the Earth's environment is to employ zero population growth. How about that?
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  • Re: Zero population growth

    Mon, March 26, 2007 - 2:41 AM
    Im not convinced.

    What you get if we stop breeding much is very soon a very old population with few young people creating food, wealth and progress.

    What we need to do is simultaneously use less stuff more discriminately whilst finding ways to create the energy we need in more sustainable ways.

    To some extent population is a self moderating factor anyway i suspect.

    Also, education and health being spread fully throughout really poor places like Africa woudl help stabilise the population as people dont breed so much when child mortality levels fall.

    Rich
    Xx
    • Re: Zero population growth

      Mon, March 26, 2007 - 8:44 AM
      Zero population growth doesn't necessarily mean zero reproduction. It also refers to a state where the birth rate and the death rate are equal.

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