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Subject: Re: the dark forces
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Martillo writes:
> Of  course,  though  actually  I was more interested in deriding the zpg
> nonsense.  India may be overpopulated but not the  US.   The  US  should
> eliminate immigration quotas altogether.

    Zpg is not nonsense.  In the long term, it is the *only* way for humanity
to survive in an all-too-finite biosphere.  The US may not be overpopulated
yet, but eliminating immigration quotas certainly seems like a good way to
make sure that we *are* overpopulated within a generation or two.  Especially
with an administration that thinks that birth control causes pregnancy.
> 
> All   zpg   meant  was  slowing  population  growth  in  underpopulated,
> productive Western  countries  while  they  make  even  more  babies  in
> overpopulated less productive nations.
      I'm not sure what you meant by this.  Apparently that overpopulated
countries are making little effort towards zpg.  I don't see how that fact
(if true) is an indictement of the zpg concept.  Somehow I think you meant
it as one, though.
      And again with the 'underpopulated' western countries.  Just what is
your idea of the best population level?  Why is it higher than the number
of people we already have?
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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