I raised this issue about a year ago and was admonished that
overpopulation was a red herring. Is it finally time to address this
taboo?
randy
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RK Bangert
On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Nelson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Bill Silvert wrote:
"...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."
The fallacies in that logic are terrifying. The author needs a
decent course
in formal logic and/or statistics (i.e. education). As an intangible
good,
education is one of the few "things" available to improve quality of
life
that does *not* necessarily increase footprint.
Note that I am removing the general concept of education - the
subject of
the attack described above - from any accessory footprint we might
associate
with whatever we might consider "typical" education. I submit that
there's
more than one way to do it and this is a forward-looking conversation.
If I remember correctly, improving quality of life often decreases the
population growth rate. Correction or refinement of that belief
would be
welcome.
