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From: claus@inuxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Too many people?
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Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 10:28:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 10:28:15 1983
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Comparing India's population density to Britian's doesn't really prove
very much.  Other factors such as geography, climate, and economy play 
a much more important part in determing the ability to feed a certain
sized population.  Simply put, India has two choices to reduce hunger in
its country, one is to slow population growth and the other is to increase
the amount of food it can either grow or buy.  With respect to the former,
India has not been able to slow population growth appreciably in the last
few years and is expected to pass China eventually.  I don't see how this 
can be blamed on its colonial past.  As I understand the food growing
problem goes back to the way the land has been used for thousands of years
and can hardly be blamed on the short period of time that the British were
in power there.  As far as buying food goes, trying to raise their food
imports to keep up with their growth in need, would be a drag on even a
healthier economy than they presently have(One which the US and Britian
have been trying to help them build).  In conclusion, trying to blame India's
woes on its colonial past is ignoring their most important problem of
uncontrollable population growth.

			
Dave Claus
AT&T CPL-Indy