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The Overpopulation Myth
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Upon reflection, it's obvious we need the third world countries to actually develop and provide infrastructure to their populace. It combats the early child mortality rates in the population associated with poverty. And thus have them become like the West ..ie 2 kids per family.
DEVELOP THE THIRD WORLD. Give them electricity, health care, water, sanitation, food security and technology and ultimately a bright future.
"As many have come to expect, I typically deal with financials and numbers. I am not an economist or CPA or even MBA by trade; I am an engineer, so I actually understand numbers, rather than merely pushing them around. And most of the last editorials have been about finances, but I felt it was time to take a short respite and address a different topic for today.
Recently, as I prepared for another jaunt to my second home in Shanghai, China, a friend of mine asked about the population of that nation. I answered it was somewhere beyond 1.3 billion people at the time, and that China, India, and Southeast Asia together combine for just over 3 billion people.
This was apocalyptic and frightening, my friend replied, for clearly there is no way the Earth can support 3 billion people, let alone the nearly 7 billion living and breathing on the face of planet today. So I sat down and - as a good engineer is led to do by some inate, twisted drive buried deep within, whipping our minds unmercilessly - plunged into the straightforward facts of the situation.
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