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Old 20-11-2005, 08:36 AM
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[quote:1cc0a29420="netchicken"]So much for the paranoia in the 1970's about world overpopulation and starvation.[/quote:1cc0a29420]
I suspect that's coming globally, and does exist in parts of the world already. The concerns about low birth rates that I've been hearing are similar to the article above: purely economic. I think we have plenty of people; we just need to redistribute them.
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