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THe planet has finite reserves of fish, atmosphere, fresh water and fossil fuels. The growing population that has added a billion people every coupla decades in the last century must stop, as without curbing the populaition, another 3 billion people, even people who live efficiently will desabilize the very planet we all need to survive.
Without draconian measures, the only way to do this is to set about bringing human rights to all peoples, as the best indicator of population growth is poverty. Without social security, people have babys to feed them in old age. Without education women have more children. Without healthcare, people have more children that more might survive to guarantee security in old age.
This involves a re-think towards global views. America is responsible for leading 6 billion people towards human rights, not the S&P 500 towards more profits. A radical re-think or what stability is, is called for. This is complex, as it involves a comprehensive world wide movement towards sustainability, far beyond kyoto. It must include healtcare for all peoples of the earth, the human rights to property, justice, and education, family planning (read: abortion)... soooo many things, as the complexity depends on the nation and culture.
America cannot stop the decline from within its own borders. Certainly by leading in good government would be a good start, but the gunds must be turned in to instruments of human rights. There is no solution on the path the US treads today. The race to reduce all human beings to poverty is a corporate US virus... and Haiti is the new model of what american government really stands for... anarchy... so in an ironic twist, bush's cabal has a lot in common with total anarchy.
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