ZPG didn't work... So now it's called NPG- Negative Population Growth. There
are advertisment in almost every issue of Natural History Magazine. I'll play
the devils advocate here... maybe we need a plague?


Mike Price Wrote:
> I agree with you that Zero Population Growth has taken a battering over the
> last couple of decades; very few people being driven to have kids by the
> lash of our DNA (biologically speaking, what the heck else are we here
> for?) stop to ask, "Gee, I wonder what the environmental ramifications of
> my/our actions shall be?" ;-) and that there's a host of other
> equally-baleful human activities. In fact, through overpopulation,
> ignorance, and greed, our species is inflicting such a holocaust upon the
> world's animals that I find it a constant miracle we have anything left
> beside cockroaches, rats, and starlings. There is more joy, therefore, in
> heaven....
>


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