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From: al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Why bother? (was Re: Terraforming, sun shield)
Message-ID: <1478@gtx.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 22:19:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.185043.21138@linus.mitre.org> <7573@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <21320@crg5.UUCP> <65085@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Alan Filipski)
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In article <65085@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> blayda@acsu.buffalo.edu (thaddeus k blayda) writes:
>  The human race's population growth decrease amongst the wealthy is
>due directly to the fact that they realize the implications of limited
>resources...

I think a greater factor is that poor people want lots of children to
help take care of them in their old age.


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