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In article <1996Jan13.210601.111812@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>,
hoopes@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (John Hoopes) wrote:
[some interesting stuff snipped]

I agree with most of what you wrote as long as those trends continue over
most of the earth for most of the rest of the time. But, say there is
massive global warming and significant reduction in land-mass and food
production. If rich contries can then grab main control over most people,
it is conceivable that large birth control programs could be put into
place, with modifications of the IQ of the population in unforseen ways,
depending the criteria that the government puts on who is eligable to have
babies.

Sci-fi writers are always worth looking at, and I read one short story
based on the premise that Earth-people were the luckiest in the Galaxy,
since they 'bred for luck'. You could have a baby on winning a lottery -
hence only the lucky bred. Facinating idea.

|						John Hoopes

regards Rev. Derek Carr (secure mail via Compuserve: 100025.1224)
Englishman in Eindhoven, The Netherlands