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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Starvation-More Rambling
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 13:11:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 13:11:01 1984
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I just love to read the liberal solutions to starvation around the world.
They all seem to have a common theme, EDUCATION.  Pha and baloney!  What
is really being said is that UNLESS YOU DO IT OUR WAY, YOUR GOING TO
STARVE.  What a way to get their attention.  Why are the liberals always
going out of their way to try to make people over in the image that they
have determined is the right image?  The solutions to over-population and
starvation are not education, as has been proven over the past 400 years.
The solution is to spread people out, give them tools to work with, then
go looking for more space as the population grows.

The premise that education is going to stabalize the population of this
planet is horse puckey.  You might make a temporary dent, but, in the long
run, it doesn't amount to a hill of beans.  More space to spread into
is the only long term solution short of mass starvation or some other
holocaust.  The sooner the do-gooders realize that the handout is not
the solution to every problem, the better off humanity will be.  All the
handout does is create a climate that stifles initiative.  Provide the
land and the tools then get the hell out of their lives.  All of the
preachments about birth control, health, and morality to the poor
waiting in line for a bowl of rice fall on deaf ears.  They will listen
to your babblings all day long, but it won't sink in.  I think of the
lectures on these subjects as commercials just like on television.

Starvation, unfortunatly, is a fact of life on this planet and the
equal distribution of food will only excerbate the situation.  The
twin problems of starvation and population growth cannot be solved
by taking away from the haves to give to the have nots.  The sociologists
descended on India 20 years ago to solve the twin problems there.
They tried everything from vasectomies to new seed varieties.  They
are still working on the problem.  The Chinese government in Bejing
has created laws concerning the number of children people can have.
The abortion rate has gone up one hundred fold, while the production
of rice has lagged.  

The world's population is growing geometricaly while the food production
is only growing arithmetricaly.  This is basic.  As I see it, the only
solution is to find more room to expand.  Where is that room?  Outer
space.  We have to start now to develop the means for expanding into
outer space because if we don't, no one will have the resources needed
to do it in the not too distant future.  ALL resources will have to 
eventually be used to produce food for the world population.  Then it
will be too late.

This whole diatibe is to try and get people to wake up to the fact that
we have to try now to expand our horizons into new territory.  Sure we
can try to alleviate hunger and starvation, but we can't do it at the
expense of the entire population of the world.  The short term solutions
of trying to shove our philosophies down someone elses throut before we
will help them are going to kill everyone.  To wail and moan about the
expenses of space exploration is to accept an eventual wipeout of
mankind.  There have to be tradeoffs, as hard as they may be to accept.

Enough of this.  Nobody is listening anyway.

"When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking."

T. C. Wheeler