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Subject: Wealth and Growth
From: "Scott Connop" turaconi
Date: Sat Nov 3, 2007 8:11 am ((PDT))
As long as we allow our leaders to equate wealth and prosperity with unbrid=
led population growth, we will never bring our population into control. Her=
e in Canada, we managed to drop our birth rate to a sustainable level some =
time ago but we have topped this off by allowing immigration to the tune of=
 250,000 folks a year. Which means a) we have swelled our population with a=
n ethnicity that has a higher birth rate than our then our present one and =
b) left behind holes in their native countries that will continue to be fil=
led by their growth rates. Humans do exactly what every other creature does=
 - propagate to flourish. We are just more successful than every other crea=
ture on the planet. And how we are going to check the innate greed that dri=
ves our wealthy elements to continually influence this is far beyond me....=
 move over Martyn, this is a soap box that can get crowded in a hurry.

Scott Connop






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