🚀 go-pugleaf

The Real Bev <bashley@myrealbox.com> wrote in message news:<40DB9CA6.E1A1A7FC@myrealbox.com>...

> > > OK.  So how many immigrants does each of us native-born Americans get to
> > > shoot?  The number here should be large enough to include shooting a
> > > number sufficient to account for the excess births, which are a lot
> > > harder to deal with.  The big problem, as you may have already guessed,
> > > is deciding who is actually entitled to give birth...
> > 
> > I wish you wouldn't inject the word "shoot," since it enforces the
> > ignorant stereotype among growth-addicts that "zero growth" means
> > active removal of existing people. NPG.ORG suggests that a net
> > population _reduction_ can be achieved with only birth control, given
> > enough time.
> 
> And assuming no immigration, of course.  With effective birth control
> you can drive the birth rate and hence the population to zero, but
> unless you deal with immigration you've just changed the names on the
> vehicle registrations.  

Yes, I forgot to mention immigration, but I associate less immigration
with fewer births worldwide. Birth control needs to be taken seriously
everywhere in the world.

E.A.

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