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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 AMIm 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
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Re: Zero population growth
Mon, March 26, 2007 - 8:44 AMZero 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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