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| www.iselong.com 日期：2006-03-06 10:38
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benefits, but as soon as they do this, the population increase
has.wiped out any benefits that they may have um... achieved.
Matthew: But do you feel that this battle with a...a rapidly expandint
population can be won?
Sarah: The most sensible thing is to realize that you can't go on expanding
human populations for ever and countries and individuals must decide
to have a policy which would limit population.
4. An African Woman Says: "...the Men Never Talk about It."
"To us, children are the most important thing in life. When we marry, it is not above all to get a husband or wife, but to have children. I had my thirteenth birth only a few months ago, and most of my adult life I have had to care for a baby as well as do all my other work in the house and in the fields. For a long time I have wanted no more children, but I keep having them as long as I am with my husband.
A nurse comes to visit our village regularly. She holds meetings for all the men and women together, to explain about family planning. Now these are wellknown facts to us, but still nobody in our village practises birth control. When. we sit together with the nurse, everybody seems to agree that this is the right thing to do when a family had grown big enough to give the parents security in their old age, and there are enough hands to attend to all the daily work. But when we go home, the men never talk about it My husband and I attend every meeting, but in our home we have never talked about birth control. I desperately want to stop having more children, but this can only be done if my husband suggests it."
5. Free Birth Control Techniques Should
Be Available Everywhere
Matthew: Peter, what sections of the population do you think free birth control
techniques should be available to?
Peter: They should be... available to all sections of the community er...
things are getting to such a pitch that I personally think
that...er...not only should birth control methods be available to all
sections of the community, but indeed should be compulsory. There
should be some kind of law which says that a family should not have
more than three children,.a complete maximum of three children, if
they have three children then they must be obliged by law, almost, to
use birth control, if not have er... various kinds of operation
which... um... make conception impossible.
Matthew: But surely this is very er... explosive in social terms?
Peter: It's very...it's a very totalitarian notion, but. the
alternative...if we look around us in the world outside is millions
of people starving to death in places like India, and people
suffering from malnutrition in. . . in other parts of the
underdeveloped wor... world and indeed even in parts of the dev...so
called developed world.
6. It's a World Probl'em
The rapid rise in world population is not creating problems only for the developing countries. The whole world faces the problem that raw materials are being used up at an increasing rate and food production cannot keep up with the population increase. People in the rich countries rnake the heaviest demands on the world's resources, its food, fuel and land, and cause the most pollution. A baby born in the United States will use in his lifetime 30 times more of the world's resources than a baby born in India. Unless all the countries of the world take united action to deal with the population explosion there will be more and more people fighting for a share of less and less land, food and fuel, and the future will bring poverty, misery and war to us all.
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