Digest Number 713

Message: 9
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:24:50 -0000
From: "victoriatangoman"
Subject: Re: Habitat Population Control

> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Giovanni"
> wrote:

>> It seems reasonable to conclude that population control will
>> be a vitally important issue in any habitat, especially when the
>> limits of the life support system are being reached. So, what
>> measures would be rational, with regards to limiting the
>> population? Can it be done without continuous governmental
>> intrusion? Would any such measures be Eugenics? How could abuses
>> be discouraged? What about people who defy the policy, and their
>> children?

> Here are some policy ramifications from a limited population growth
> strategy.

> Older, but not better, in Italy
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/969654.asp?0dm=T26CN

> TangoMan

Thanks for the link, haven't looked at it yet; but very interested in
anything related to the topic.