Message-ID: <3301088C.B8C@mind.net> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:02:20 +0000 From: "B. Diamond" <mailto:bdiamond@mind.net> Subject: Re: the Population MYTH...until when???????? To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
JC WANDEMBERG wrote: >
> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, B. Diamond wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> Dear BD, it may not, but instead of speculating about possible scenarios
> in the future I prefer to work on current scenarios so that when the
> future comes it will be a desirable one. And about peasants having too
> many children you would agree that the reason they do is only because they
> have no better alternative, not because they are stupid as many "wise"
> think.
Juan-Carlos,
I certainly did not mean to imply that peasants are having too many children--I merely used them as an example of folks who are "living lightly" as it were, but even if they don't own two cars, a rolex, and a vacation home on Maui, 15-20 billion people is too many people, period.
BD