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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
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 18:20:21 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:15:36 EST
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Reply-To: rick@maccunix.UUCP (Rick Keir)
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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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

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