One child policy
watching 60 minutes on china and their lack of girls.
All sorts of unfortunate side effects occur as a result of china's one child policy - for one thing the preference for boys results in girls being given away for adoption etc.
But in general I say good on the Chinese for having a one child policy. [and I know their methods are far from benign but Im comparing them with a third world country rather than with NZ]
The world can only take so many people and the Chinese are keeping the stress on the world for resources to an extent under control by limiting their own population - now if africa could do the same maybe they wouldn't be such a disaster zone.
one of the chinese girls on the show was right (for the wrong reasons) to an extent westerners are concieted for wanting more children. we all know [correction : Some of us know] the earth is struggling to handle 6 billion people [this is shown in various measures such as the sustainability of fishing resources - also the question of how much resources of each type would be required if everyone on earth was to live at a upper middle class sort of level] and yet so many of us act as though we want another 6 [or 12 or 24 million].
All sorts of unfortunate side effects occur as a result of china's one child policy - for one thing the preference for boys results in girls being given away for adoption etc.
But in general I say good on the Chinese for having a one child policy. [and I know their methods are far from benign but Im comparing them with a third world country rather than with NZ]
The world can only take so many people and the Chinese are keeping the stress on the world for resources to an extent under control by limiting their own population - now if africa could do the same maybe they wouldn't be such a disaster zone.
one of the chinese girls on the show was right (for the wrong reasons) to an extent westerners are concieted for wanting more children. we all know [correction : Some of us know] the earth is struggling to handle 6 billion people [this is shown in various measures such as the sustainability of fishing resources - also the question of how much resources of each type would be required if everyone on earth was to live at a upper middle class sort of level] and yet so many of us act as though we want another 6 [or 12 or 24 million].
posted by Genius at 1:17 AM
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Not all of us know the earth is struggling to handle 6 billion people. In fact, some of us know the opposite.
Also, girls being given away for adoption is not an explanation for the excess of boys over girls. The real reasons are far less benign.
Well a bit of culture and a bit of "one child policy" taxes and so forth.
> Not all of us know the earth is struggling to handle 6 billion people. In fact, some of us know the opposite.
Ok maybe not all of us, but it is. I'm hardly a crazy environmentalist but I know there is still some limit to the how many people can live on a fixed amount of resources. There is some evidence from various measures of sustainability.
Are you really saying there are not enough people on earth? and worse yet that we should grow the population at full speed?
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