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Old 21st-July-2008, 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by ELF View Post
Would a non coercive global strategy of population reduction be a good thing to help solve some of the many environmental proplems such as global warming, polution,recource depletion, species extinction etc.???

It would be interesting to know the breakdown of opinion from the posters on this forum as it seems to be a very polarizing issue.

Elf
On a slightly less harsh note...

I voted "not sure" - but not for the question being too vague, but more because it isn't clear what a "non-coercive" global strategy of population reduction would entail. On the one hand, there are already non-coercive strategies in terms of controlling (the rate of) population growth; these have generally not been to effective (but at the same time that does not necessarily mean I am suggesting anything "stronger" at this point).


@ your signature "What should the inhabitants of Easter island have done to maintain a sustainable community???" - is that a reference to these:

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