Message-ID: <3300AFAE.2EE6@mind.net> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:43:10 +0000 From: "B. Diamond" <mailto:bdiamond@mind.net> Subject: Re: the Population MYTH...until when???????? To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
JC WANDEMBERG wrote:> So, even if population decreases by 90% theses "pressures" would only
> decrease about 20%.
>
> 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.
Juan-Carlos,
While I agree with you that the "pressures" you refer to are indeed a large componant of the problem, I don't beleive the earth could support 15-20 billion peasant farmers either.
BD