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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 06:07 PM Original message |
Bringing Up the Issue of Population Growth |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. Like most problems, increasing access to education, and the quality of education, |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 06:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Loans to older women with no education are a means to this |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
2. After years of expecting a third world woman whose womb is her only real asset |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 06:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. education and empowerment are solutions to MOST of the world's problems... |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:54 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. +1 |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 10:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Starting to? We've known this since the Seventies - we just don't ACT on it |
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earthside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. For the right it is 'reproductive' issues ... |
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 12:10 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. how will locking the US borders solve WORLD population issues though? |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. nature will eventually solve the over population of humans in its own way, as usual nt |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
7. In some circles supporting population control is equated with supporting genocide. |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
8. Once again, the true villain is religion |
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cstanleytech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 10:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. No, the problem is not religion |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:47 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Oh yes, it is. It's not the only issue, but it's HUGE. |
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hamsterjill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 09:26 AM Response to Reply #14 |
30. I agree! |
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antigone382 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 04:10 PM Response to Reply #8 |
34. That's an oversimplification. |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
10. I'll be damned. It's getting some attention. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. Global Warming is breathing down our necks and thousands of years of "go forth and multiply" ... |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. Kind of idiotic considering that much of the Christian world |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 08:06 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. That's only since the pill -- but nearly 40 years of effect .... |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:23 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Well people like sex, so good BC is a requirement to lower birth rates |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. No one said they didn't .... !! What I said was RCC has been blocking access to birth control -- !! |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #11 |
31. Yes, and what to people exhale? Carbon Dioxide, the big bugaboo greenhouse gas. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:50 AM Response to Original message |
16. I remember after a campaign against population growth in the 60s here in the US |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 08:07 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. +1 -- |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
17. But the birthrate of people LIVING in the US is at a NEGATIVE rate. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. But that's not true; the US birth rate has been higher than the death rate all that time |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 04:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Wikipedia and the CIA disagree with you |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:42 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. That's the fertility rate, not the birth /death rate |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. That's right |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:44 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Your factoid is false |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 01:16 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. No it wouldn't - you have to count births to immigrants plus immigrants |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 04:22 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. That shows nothing - where are the death rates? Where are the stats for immigrants? |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
18. Zero Population Growth ... |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
33. But if I suggested that we limit immigration in order to curb population growth I would probably |
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antigone382 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 04:16 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Immigration does not change global population growth. It is not all about the United States. |
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