Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #685
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:06:13AM -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote:
> As of the talk about having kids or not, you need to have a global vision,
> not only a US vision. Yes, there are too many people on the planet, but most
> poor people from under-developed nation don't have anything else than their
> kids... They have not reach the sophistication level of sitting back to
> meditate if they want to be "kids-free"... They just have them...
>
> -Is it good ? no, I don't think so, but it's the way it is... back in the
> days, they use to die from any type of flu, or benign sickness, but now
> there's penicillin, so people don't die so easily, and those 3rd world
> countries are getting overcrowded, as people still make babies at a fast
> rate...
Interesting read:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/earth-2050-population-unknowable/
--
Chris.
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