Empowering women is just one of many steps in the right direction. Education
helps, even though one list member in an off-list message complained that
since educated people make more and thus have larger footprints, education
is bad. Health care is another good step. Poor people often have large
families so that the children can work, so anything that alleviates
desperate poverty can be beneficial.
Bill Silvert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abraham de Alba A." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Population control
I thought this argument was done fore a long time ago, I mean, the
sociologists found that "enpowering" women was more profitable, that is,
women that find that can contribute to their well-being WILL use
concraception, otherwise it doesn`t matter if all the drug stores are full
of contraceptives.
It's anybodies guess HOW to empower women, it has been done and it's
probably being done right now, but it`s not an overnight thing. Here Mexico,
it has finally been accepted by government officials that given money to
men, is just another way of subsidicing the beer industry or tequila, but
when they give to women's groups it usually flourishes into a small
buisness, so much for our macho economy.
Abraham de Alba Avila
