: Obviously, you have not taken the time to read anything about the present population problems, greenhouse effects, or global warming. You must realize that the earth is not our personal candy shop. ALL humans have the same requirements. Clean air, water, food supplies, and so on. If it becomes uninhabited for one, it becomes so for all. So if you really care about human life as you claim, this would concern you greatly, as it does so many others. This does not have to be a doomsday message if people are educated and responsible.Easy, easy. Overpopulation is, in fact, a problem, but on the social grounds. Taking China as an example, their overpopulation is a big problem only within their geographic borders. Too many people having to share scarce resources will lead to a decrease in the quality of life of that county. What is the impact on the US? None.
The concern should be, in fact, with the dignity of the human life, not on selfish concerns about the availability of resources, like food and water.
And about the pollution that comes with the overpopulation? Yes, that also happens. But let me remember you the facts from the last Global Warming Summit, held in Japan: negotiators went to a crossroads and it was pretty hard to solve. The question was about restricting the emission of polluents on the atmosphere. This is a legitimate question. The US demanded the so-called third world countries to quickly reduce their emission levels, to revert the greenhouse effect.
Everything seems pretty fair, huh? Wrong. Most of the pollution comes from the largest industrial countries, right? The US is the largest industrial power in this world. The crossroads happened because their overall emission levels are much bigger than many other countries together. They wouldn't reduce their own levels, to keep the "american way of life" thing going. At the expense of the rest of the world.
Which is not, by any means, right.
Birth control = Abortion, you mean?
As for the last paragraph, which I accidentally deleted, all I can say is that you have to look for your own defects before you go judging everybody else. Demanding birth control policies from third world countries is pointless, if you keep focusing your thoughts just on resources levels.
Jason.
