🚀 go-pugleaf

On 27 Jun 2004 04:08:09 -0700, enough_already@lycos.com (Enough
Already) wrote:

>Alan Moore <alan.s.moore@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<53hpd0lo6cmjobc51glpg408bnodbpkuti@4ax.com>...
>
>> In fact, native Californians don't have enough kids to replace
>> themselves from one generation to the next. Were it not for
>> immigration, and US internal migration, the population of California
>> would be declining. That would be nice.
>
>If only it was that simple. According to various references there's
>enough childbearing momentum to maintain steady U.S. growth even if
>immigration is limited to replacement levels.
>
>http://www.numbersusa.com/overpopulation/headed5.html

Yes. Not everyone is as practical as we are out here. And, of course,
there may be places that are not so severely overpopulated.
>
>Native Mormons in particular are showing little conscience about
>overpopulation. They behave as if this is still a frontier with high
>death rates. And many of our "natives" are recent immigrants who will
>keep having larger families for cultural reasons. I don't want to see
>white people trying to compete with their numbers to maintain racial
>purity, etc.. We'd all end up losing because of the sum total.

"Racial Purity?"  This is California. The first place in the US where
interracial marriage was legal. Not that its prohibition here or
elsewhere ever made much difference in the "race" of children being
born...
>
>The key is massive publicity on the population problem, directed at a
>worldwide audience. No more excuses for worry of offending the
>prolific or questioning religious values.

It would help, of course, if we didn't make foreign aid dependant on a
rejection of practical measures for birth control...

Al Moore