Population control (not Religious content - but also read at your own risk)

[Jean-Michel MAES]

> NON-DIRECTLY-LEPIDOPTERAN CONTENT YOU MAY WANT TO DELETE NOW.
 
I see the phantom of the natality control by there....
 
An important point is if we try to control the natality in "poor" =
country it
never works... If the quality of life increase, then the matelity =
decrease
automatically. It's absolutely not a casuality that the rich countries =
have
low natality rates or negative repopulation rates, it's human, the =
interests
of the people are differents, priorities are differents, studies, good =
job,
good social position, house, tv, car, etc... childrens are not going in =
that
sense. If I remember well, in France, the average of the first baby is =
24
years. In many "poor" countries many womens of 24 have 5, 6 or 7 =
childrens.
The opportunity of a single women, 24 years, with no childrens and a
doctorate is really higher than a single (abandonned) women, 24 years, 6
childrens and a primary grade...
 
Sincerely,
 
Jean-Michel MAES
MUSEO ENTOMOLOGICO
AP 527
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NICARAGUA
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Gatrelle <gatrelle at tils-ttr.org>
To: Leps-l <Leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: Population control (Religious content - read at your own =
risk)
 
 
> NON-LEPIDOPTERAN CONTENT YOU MAY WANT TO DELETE NOW.
>
> So who is going to step forward as the first volunteer for elimination =
in
> order to reduce the population mass?  Rather than one's self, perhaps =
one
> could volunteer their spouse, kids, parents, friends, or other ethnic
> groups. This is not going to happen - except for an occasional try at =
some
> ethnic cleansing.
>
> OK, let's educate people and hope they see the need for reproductive
> planning - do their part so there will be a healthy planet with plenty =
of
> environmental diversity around for their 0.75 great-grandchild. This =
is
not
> going to happen because vary large religious groups not only promote
having
> large families, but say childbearing is a sacrament that helps one =
gain
> admission to Heaven.  Others feel they need to produce an abundance of
> offspring because the mortality is such in their impoverished country =
that
> they need to insure that some of their kids live long enough to take =
care
> of them in their old age.
>
> The push for human population control and then reduction, has been =
around
> for a while now - but the avalanche still proceeds.
>
> (DON'T BLAME ME IF YOU CONTINUE READING THIS.)
>
> It is now fact that those in the 1960's who emphatically predicted =
that
the
> world could absolutely not exist with 4 billion people in the 80's - =
were
> way wrong. So is the problem (assuming there is one) really one of
> population, numbers - or is it the way we populate.
>
> I am a firm believer that the reckless, dirty, sprawling, way humanity
> populates is the much greater problem. God's original plan for =
humanity
was
> as steward of this planet - care-taker (Genesis 2:15). I believe in
> "original sin" because humanity has become just a taker (Gen. 6:5). We
> indeed are capable of so much that is constructive because, as the =
Bible
> teaches, there is that of God in every man (Ecclesiastes 7:29, =
Proverbs
> 20:27, Zechariah 12:1, John 1:9). Yet the human legacy thus far is =
only
one
> of destruction, violence, hate, etc.
>
> One of the reasons I believe the Bible is because it has been around =
for a
> few thousand years now foretelling that in the end humanity would not =
only
> destroy itself, but the Earth. No one 1,500 years ago could imagine =
that
> people could ever have the wherewithal to destroy (corrupt) the Earth =
-
> thus this is a divine revelation. The book also says that God will =
then
> show up again and judge all those who have been corrupters (including =
of
> the Earth - Revelation 11:18) after which he will make a new or =
(renewed)
> one (Isaiah 66:22).
>
> Simply put. Things are so screwed up that ultimately only God will be =
able
> to put it back together again - and He will (Revelation 21:1, =
22:20-21).
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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