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Boom & bust [ was " Roofer's Contract Spec'ed #30 felt paper, but used #15 instead -- Sugg

zenboom

2005-10-30, 6:21 pm

"3D Peruna" <w!h#a$r%o^l&d@w!e#i$r%d&n*e(s)s.com> wrote in message
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> "PipeDown" <nowhere@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Stop making babies" becomes problamatic. Welfare state issues aside (ie,
> fewer people being taxed to support more people), there are the issues of
> being able to sustain a society. Negative growth rates screw up economies
> (just look at most of Europe - if it weren't for the imigration, they'd be
> in more trouble than they're in now). Also, look at China...they've had a
> "one child" policy for how long?
>

This brings to mind an interesting commentary I read recently [ afraid no
cite on hand ] on the problem of economic dependence on growth in the
context of finite natural resources...

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