[Peace-discuss] Population control

[Karen Medina]

Population control is not a solution to war, as was suggested 
this evening. War occurred when there many times fewer people 
on the Earth than there are now.

Population control is also not a solution to poverty, as was 
suggested this evening. There have always been poor among us.

Population control is a choice that the rich and educated can 
only make for themselves. I am one of the lucky ones; I am 
rich, well-educated, and therefore powerful -- and I refuse 
to support the forcing of population control on those who are 
not as lucky as I.

I, as one who loves ecological balance, recognize the 
disharmony that the human population has thrown the Earth 
into, yet I do not desire to destroy the human population as 
a whole nor as a part. Honestly, if we were to choose a part 
to control, we would be better off controlling the largest 
consumers of the finite resources, not the subsistence 
survivors.

-karen medina