Re: Overpopulation an Hoax??

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 04:24:03 GMT, Richard Schulman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Fred Elbel:
> >China, unfortunately, found that decades of government-sponsored
> >population growth was resulting in unsustainably high population.
> >They had no choice but to institute government-sponsored population
> >reduction policies.
> 
> Wrong. 

No, that is correct:

http://axe.acadiau.ca/~043638z/one-child/

In 1979, after years of encouraging reproduction, the Chinese
government implemented a policy known today as the one-child policy
(not to be confused with the "one-China" policy which advocates the
renufication of Taiwan with mainland China). 


...The policy was adopted to ensure that China, a country that has
historically been prone to severe flooding and famine, would be able
to feed its people. The rapid population growth that occurred after
the Communist Party came to power had put a strain on the government's
efforts to help its people. So in an attempt to combat the widespread
poverty and improve the overall quality of life, the one-child policy
was gradually adopted.