Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: poor starving people Message-ID: <492@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 18:20:21 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.492 Posted: Tue Nov 27 18:20:21 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:15:36 EST References: <642@amd.UUCP> <590@amdahl.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@maccunix.UUCP (Rick Keir) Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 20 Summary: > PROPOSAL > The United States should send more food to Ethiopia, but all recipients > must consent to sterilization. > My, this will generate some flames.... I will point out that, in a sense, the Ethiopians are not the problem. Yes, there are too many (de facto: a country with more mouths than food has too many people). But a bigger threat in terms of using up too many resources is First World; that is, us. 3rd world countries may have high birth rates, but the 1st world is the one using up all the oil/food/coal/iron etc. -- "Dr. Malthus will not be cheated" -- from a very hard-hearted essay in the Chicago Tribune, a few years ago. Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick