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chaloobi
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 Posted - 01/05/2005 : 11:50:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
There is always soylent green. More food = More Babies.
Well, the world is better fed today - for the most part - than ever in history. Food is not getting us more babies. Ironically, the places in the world with the highest birth rates are the places where most people get a regular crappy diet.
I've done some more reading of this book, skipped around a bit, and I don't like this guy at all. His numbers may be correct - the dropping birth rates world wide - but his conclusions and extrapolations are simplistic at best. His politics are totally fucked up too and I believe he's got a political agenda he's pushing with the book. And man did his 'chapter' on environmentalism piss me off. He demonstrates either a lack of understanding of the subject or a deliberate attempt to misconstrue it for the reader. From that I have to ask what else in the book has he done the same with? He implies that a low birth rate today carries a lot of momentum with it and takes a very long time to turn around. But that may or may not be true, I don't know. And I don't trust him to know or speak honestly about it either. |
-Chaloobi
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