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Re: [Phys-l] Misconceptions in the Population/Energy Debate #2



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Only one large country has adopted this policy, the People's Republic of China. In the essay, Hardin had rejected education as an effective means of stemming population growth. Since that time, it has been shown that increased educational and economic opportunities for women correlates well with reduced birthrates in most countries, as does economic growth in general. However, given the nature of the problem as a limit to a given common resource, economic growth resulting in a higher per capita use of the resource may more than offset the decreased population growth's effect on total resource consumption. [citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons






On 2009, Nov 16, , at 18:30, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

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While the implications of Hardin's essay are broadly defined, a
central point of his essay was that adding offspring to the human
population was a freedom, and that in order to prevent the
degradation of the earth and its ability to support human existence,
humanity needed to cede the freedom to reproduce.[1]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

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