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Posts: 9511 11/01/04 21:00:37 BookTalk Owner |
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Chris "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandella |
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tarav |
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Posts: 1052 11/30/04 19:06:42 Moderator |
On page 32, Wilson maintains that, "The encouragement of population control by developing countries comes not a moment too soon". The United States is not among the many countries that have or intend to have official population policies. Why would you/or wouldn't you support such policies in your country?
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Interbane |
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Posts: 679 12/03/04 12:28:04 I'm once again awesome! |
I personally think that it's inevitable. I would definitely support something like this. As long as they didn't kill my third child if we had an accident.
This reminds me of "Ender's Game". |
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Dissident Heart |
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Posts: 1868 12/13/04 16:19:34 Indisputable BookTalk Master |
Quote: Here is Wilson providing a succinct description of the 'essence of environmentalism': a brilliantly informed portrait of who we are, where we come from, and what we are to do. The "what we are to do" component involves the universal environmental ethic he is attempting to produce with this book. And, it is an issue of devotion and healing, of interconnectedness and individual sacrifice, of humility and reverence for the fragile yet superabundant bioshpere that miraculously continues to foster life. Wilson argues that we have stumbled into this bottleneck of too many mouths and too little nutrients by way of our evolutionary processes: Quote: Thus, we are employing a Paleolithic software within a Biospheric age: our ideas of kin, relatives, family, culture, nation-state must change; they must be reorientated away from short-term me-myself-and I ethics, and towards long-term we-ourselves-and Us ethics. The Biosphere must become our new foundation for identity, solidarity, purpose, meaning, and love. This means radical restructuring of our economic practices where the GNP (gross national product) is replaced by the GPI (genuine progress indicator) and Environmentalism is NOT seen as simply a special interest, but as the accurate and scientific and moral view of Life on the Planet. |
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tarav |
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Posts: 1052 12/16/04 17:32:31 Moderator |
I would also support population control policies in the US. I am surprised that more people haven't commented on this idea. I thought for sure that such an idea would be controversial for those of us living in countries with no such policies. I am also interested in hearing how people from countries with such policies feel about them.
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