Comments on: Who’s Really in the Way of Solving Global Poverty? http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/11/05/whos-really-in-the-way-of-solving-global-poverty/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:50:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/11/05/whos-really-in-the-way-of-solving-global-poverty/#comment-117845 TBlumer Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:58:31 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/11/05/whos-really-in-the-way-of-solving-global-poverty/#comment-117845 #2, besides betraying a fundamental lack of faith in human ingenuity, the best hope for population reduction lies in what used to be called industrialization, but now should be simply seen as a the spread of capitalism. History has shown that when a country industrializes/capitalizes, population growth levels off. Sometimes it goes too far and leads to decline, as in many parts of Europe, but the point is valid. Further, world pop growth is predicted, as much as anything like this can be predicted, to be as low as 0.5% per year in 2050: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpopinfo.html #2, besides betraying a fundamental lack of faith in human ingenuity, the best hope for population reduction lies in what used to be called industrialization, but now should be simply seen as a the spread of capitalism.

History has shown that when a country industrializes/capitalizes, population growth levels off. Sometimes it goes too far and leads to decline, as in many parts of Europe, but the point is valid.

Further, world pop growth is predicted, as much as anything like this can be predicted, to be as low as 0.5% per year in 2050:

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpopinfo.html

]]> By: Mike http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/11/05/whos-really-in-the-way-of-solving-global-poverty/#comment-117843 Mike Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:35:01 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/11/05/whos-really-in-the-way-of-solving-global-poverty/#comment-117843 I am a politically moderate person who does have concerns about the environment and I have never understood why people think that the Earth can sustain 10 billion people, as will be the case within 50 years or so. (Or even the 6 or 7 billion people we have now). I think it is sill to talk about reducing our carbon footprint without talking about how the human population has BOOMED within the past 100 years. I am a politically moderate person who does have concerns about the environment and I have never understood why people think that the Earth can sustain 10 billion people, as will be the case within 50 years or so. (Or even the 6 or 7 billion people we have now). I think it is sill to talk about reducing our carbon footprint without talking about how the human population has BOOMED within the past 100 years.

]]> By: Dan Wismar http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/11/05/whos-really-in-the-way-of-solving-global-poverty/#comment-117833 Dan Wismar Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:16:23 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/11/05/whos-really-in-the-way-of-solving-global-poverty/#comment-117833 John Fund had a piece on this back in August, which I linked <a href="http://danwismar.com/archives/wizblog/2007/08/22/poverty_is_not_charming" rel="nofollow">here</a>. As is so often the case these days, it is more anti-capitalism masquerading as environmentalism, and a misplaced "ideal" defined by western elites as a primitive, noble (read "impoverished") lifestyle, to be imposed on people who wish to develop and prosper...say to the point of having running water. John Fund had a piece on this back in August, which I linked here.

As is so often the case these days, it is more anti-capitalism masquerading as environmentalism, and a misplaced “ideal” defined by western elites as a primitive, noble (read “impoverished”) lifestyle, to be imposed on people who wish to develop and prosper…say to the point of having running water.

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