[Frank Stearns]

Mxsmanic writes:

Les Cargill writes:

Birth rates are declining. Widely.

They are declining only in affluent societies, which are ironically the very
societies that can best afford to support larger populations (although that's
not an excuse to allow the population to increase).

The poorest basket cases of Africa also have the highest rates of population
increase. They must either progress or starve. The best way to progress is
through education, especially of women.

In a decade or so, you'll see a drop in population even in Mexico. Nothing
from those doom books in the '70s has held up...

Wait and see.

(See my other post about the changing nature of trends and technology.)

We have "waited and seen." The 1970 warnings were *dire and immediate* -- yet
nothing like those predictions ever occurred.

Any many of the African basket-cases are self-imposed by the deepest forms of
corruption imaginable.

Rather than pour resources down a rathole, international bodies should first remove
the rats. But that's admittedly iffy. Remember the $20B fraud scandal with the UN
aid programs a few years back?

And just in the past few days French authorities arrested some mid-level
agricultural minister from a very poor African nation living the high-life in
France. This joker had several sports cars (each valued at more than US$200K), a
private night club in the building where he lived, a private jet, a room dedicated
to objects made of gold, and so on; all this while the folks back home were starving
and kept illiterate. That's the kind of rat I mean.

(If he actually did something to earn that wealth -- and paid the appropriate taxes
-- well, then, maybe it's legally okay. But he was arrested, suggesting theft of
resources intended for others.)

Frank
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