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Re: First Trillion



In <599vr4$gum@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> JBASK1
<JBASK1@student.monash.edu.au> writes: 
>I have
>a simple proposition, if you think the world has too many 
>people feel free to reduce it by one. When I meet a Green 
>with the guts to think globally and act very locally indeed
>I will start taking your case seriously. Until then this just
>sounds like the usual "there are too many Blacks in the world
>and they have too many darn kids" argument to me.

||"Going about poor parts of the world shoving 
||birth-control pills down people's throats, 
||hustling them into abortion clinics,
||anf giving them cheap prizes for getting sterilized
||is to assume that those people don't want babies as
||much as we do, that they won't like those babies as
||well as we like ours, and that the little brown
||and yellow babies are not as good as the 
||adorable pink, rich kind. 
||American children grow up to be valuable citizens.
||Bangladeshi children grow up to be part of 
||the world's population problem."

||(P. J. O'Rourke, _All the Trouble in the World_.)


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