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

[C. G. Estabrook]

[From the Israeli press?]

	GAZA: Country badly needs birth control

The recent tragedy in Gaza certainly deserves our sympathy. However, in all the 
news coverage and analyses of Gaza, no one has even dared to mention the 
underlying big problem: overpopulation.

The country is too small and not productive enough to support one and a half 
million-plus people and could not survive on its own without all the long-term 
aid given by well-meaning organizations all over the world.

The 1,300 killed in the recent hostilities will be replaced in just a few years.

Gaza must get its population under control and overcome its misguided historical 
influences. There are many others in the world also in this situation. By 
providing and sustaining aid, there is no incentive to practice population 
control, because the more children there are, the more Gaza will benefit.

A Los Angeles Times story quotes a 21-year-old woman who has six children! 
Gaza’s problem is that it has an extremely high birth rate, fostered by Islam 
and the Bush administration’s ban on any birth control information in the past 
decade. One and a half million people on less than 150 square miles of depleted 
and eroded land, a density of about 10,000 people per square mile is too many. 
Washington’s density is 97, and Oregon’s 39.

Along with food and water, the thousands of charitable organizations now in Gaza 
should also be educating and encouraging birth control. This would help that 
country immensely.

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