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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 19:09:40 -0700
From: Jim Talboy <plicysci@frii.com>
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To: PROGRESSIVE POPULATION NETWORK <ppn@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: An ugly reply to Mr. Glaze.
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Ed Glaze III wrote:

> Being new to this list I am unfamiliar with <rcollins@netlink.com.au>,
> however, it seems he (?) is promoting a booklet that, judging from the
> title "MYTHS OF OVERPOPULATION," takes the head-in-the sand
> approach to environmentalism.

Dear PPN,

My complaint, against the tide perhaps, is the insistence that "the poor," are
the problem.  Given that the USA economy demands consumption beyond the needs of
its inhabitants, and especially the amount of waste  those citizens tolerate,
these arguments are particularly galling.   It might be better to use kindness,
warmth and compassion as criteria, rather than full employment within such a
system.   Our insistence on purely rational solutions smacks too heavily of the
immense failures of secularism.   For those of you who might not have noticed,
in the period since the "Enlightenment," these ideological proponents of
rationality,  have successfully killed at least 170,000,000 people to gain
"heaven on earth."     If you choose not to have children, bully for you
perhaps, but don't try force "rationality" on those who have noticed the uneven
standards you've attempted to promote.   Expedient sloganeering, "head in the
sand approach," is not appreciated and should  not be tolerated.