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primavera

(5,191 posts)
18. Gotta do something
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 11:19 AM
Aug 2012

A population that exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment is going to have bigger problems than political correctness. Consider Egypt that has failed to respond to their burgeoning population in a country where less than 5% of the country's land is arable. Infant mortality goes up, causing people to have even more children, and, when there is not enough food and jobs for the population, they export their citizenry to other countries as migrants, pissing off receiving countries. You can't just ignore overpopulation and hope that it goes away by itself like we do with most of our problems, you have to do something about it.

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