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That is one of the purposes of The Population Fix – to help you learn to think like a populationist and to immediately react to every major societal problem with the question: “Will population growth help or hinder the mitigation of this problem?” |
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CHAPTER 1: THE POPULATIONISTS
Are You – Or Could You Become – A Populationist?
Because there are so many different views about what should be done relative to population growth it seems to me an umbrella term is called for. Therefore, I combine all people with views and concerns about population growth under one term,“populationists.”
• Are you one who relates population growth to international, national, and local problems which cross your personal radar screen?
• When you read about a water shortage do you ask yourself, “Could it possibly be a ‘people overage?’ ”
• When you hear about a bond issue to build another highway bridge or to bore another highway tunnel or to add highway lanes do you think to yourself, “Fewer people would mean fewer drivers and that would mean less need to raise taxes to pay for highway bond issues?”
• When a neighbor says, “Our schools are simply getting too crowded – we need to build more schools” do you reply, “If our population wasn’t growing so rapidly would we need so many more schools?”
If you don’t react to those and similar situations in similar ways today, do you think you could learn to do so tomorrow? |
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©2006 Edward C. Hartman. All Rights Reserved
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