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- From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,ca.environment,ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.002406.12801@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 00:24:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.041755.4485@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <72137@cup.portal.com> <7218@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> <1992Dec29.190706.17698@bellahs.com>
- Reply-To: mjvande@PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
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- >Great ideas, all of them. But they are still just band aid solutions
- >to the real dilemma: too many people putting too great a stress on a
- >planet with a finite amount of resources. When we can come up with a
- >real solution for curbing the current population growth we will ease
- >the increasing strain on our fragile environment as well as alleviate
- >many other ills facing society today (e.g. crime, poverty, education).
- >This seems to be too big an issue for any country, let alone politician,
- >to handle but one which will sooner or later need to be dealt with.
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- Agreed, but the solution is simpler: vasectomies & no kids (& I practice
- what I preach). Also, behaviour is at least as important as numbers:
- People who don't own cars do a lot less damage. Etc.
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