[Peace-discuss] a friend: Haiti's problem is overpopulation

[C. G. Estabrook]

As the concentration of wealth increases and accelerates - in this country and 
the world at large - those who control wealth and power respond with anti-natal 
policies.

There's obviously a better way. R. Wilkinson and K. Pickett show in "The Spirit 
Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better" (2009) that, for a 
range of health and social problems (physical health, mental health, drug abuse, 
education, imprisonment, obesity, social mobility, trust and community life, 
violence, teenage pregnancies, and child well-being), outcomes are substantially 
worse in more unequal societies.

It's clear that elites will do anything to prevent the necessary redistribution 
of wealth, when it is demanded, even though even they know that the one thing 
that brings birth rates down is social security.

But as Che is supposed to have said, "It's easier to kill a guerrilla in the 
womb than in the hills."  --CGE


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> All this is irrelevant to a real problem (which too many ignore) in 
> coming years: that the earth now has problems involving energy, climate 
> change, natural resources and /sustainability/ all of which are greatly 
> exacerbated by an increasing world population.  
> 
> --mkb
> 
> 
> On Feb 7, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
> 
>> Carl Estabrook wrote:
>>> Across the world, people are not poor because they have too many 
>>> children:
>>> they have too many children because they're poor.
>>
>> Bingo.
>>
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