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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 02:12 PM
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54. This PBS link to Indian Population tells a slightly different tale...
India's population has more than doubled since its family-planning policy went into effect in the 1950s, and current projections predict that India will overtake China's position as most populous nation by 2050. However, India's total fertility rate has declined by more than 40 percent since the 1960s, and today the average number of children per woman is around three.

The country's most recent approach to population issues focuses on the advancement of women economically, academically, and socially, as independent women are more likely to have small families. This is a change from the darker days of India's population policy. In the 1970s, the government declared a population "state of emergency," began implementing forced sterilizations in the nation's poorest regions, and even rewarded medical workers who performed the most operations. The national focus on sterilization hindered women's acceptance of family planning, as many considered birth control an all-or-nothing proposition and chose to forgo it entirely.


www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/campaigns.html

Yes, the Indian government is "weaker" than China's. Also more humane. Whatever the details, world population is a serious issue. As is energy use by the less crowded countries.

Paul Watson's attempt to turn the Sierra Club into the Keep the Mexicans Out Club failed, fortunately. Since he's made a reputation as a Fearless Eco Warrior, one wonders why he doesn't oppose the Evil Hunters more directly.



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