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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Population
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:26:41 -0600


Direct experience backing up what Frances Moore Lappe said.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/22/2008 at 1:17 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>As education goes up, population goes down. While business manager of a
>college in Nigeria I had a very enlightening experience. I decided to
>teach a class one night about birth control. So many were interested I
>had two nights; one for single people and one for married. Both classes
>had people sitting in the windows and everywhere else.
>
> In counties where people have little education and 25% of the children
>die by age five, the elderly told me that they have many children to
>assure that there will be enough to take care of them when they are old
>and cannot work.
>
> The young, educated people want 1-3 children.
>
>






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