Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970211131611.0161ee84@ilhawaii.net> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:16:14 -1000 From: Jay Hanson <mailto:j@QMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: the Population MYTH...until when???????? To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 10:38 AM 2/11/97 -0700, J.C. Wandemberg wrote:>So please! let's leave the population myth be what it is, a myth! and
>instead concentrate our resources on combatting the cause of the 80% of
>the "pressures", namely, the superfluous overconsumption of the
>commercially-brain-washed.
Agreed! See TOO MANY RICH PEOPLE by Paul Ehrlich at: http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/page27.htm
Here is a snip:
"The relatively small population of rich people therefore accounts for roughly two-thirds of global environmental destruction, as measured by energy use. From this perspective, the most important population problem is overpopulation in the industrialized nations."
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