Chirac warns of 'African flood'

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:57:01 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Jim Ley writes:

Which was covered, it does nothing to provide for the rest of the
population as they age.

You cannot provide for the aged through a spiral of ever-increasing
population, either. Handling the aged is a matter of raising the
standard of living, and increasing the population is in direct
conflict with this goal.

No it's not, you're confusing things, releiving poverty causes a
reduction in birth rates - the population ages, that's simply a result
of improved life expectancy, it's not the other way around, no country
ever got rich by killing all its children.

If you don't control population, eventually everyone will be living in
poverty, and then they will starve.

That's an interesting conclusion, and one that seems likely,
especially as it was forecast in the 60's and 70's to be true by now,
but it far from happened, indeed we are still having to limit food
production. whilst of course you might be true in the extreme that
infinite population growth is a problem (although everyone wouldn't
die of starvation obviously) It's not a problem we're remotely
approaching now, and certainly not something worth be concerned with
now. Reducing poverty is a much more important aim.

Jim.