Population Control Policy Issues

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"
wrote:
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote:
>
> > > The reason I had trouble playing along is that I think that
your
> > > axioms don't account for some real-life dynamics. Try and find
me
> > > any business that has as its goal no revenue growth. Try to
find
> me
> > > a national economy that looks for no growth - that is striving
> for a
> > > static level of production, population, resource use, etc.
This
> just
> > > doesn't happen.
> >
> > I disagree that economic growth is synonymous for population
> growth.
>
> I never said that they are synonymous, but population growth is a
> significant contributor to economic growth. In some other post I
> listed the other components of economic growth, but because of the
> Digest form of response, that post was so long ago that I can't
> remember where it is. If you're interested, dig through the last
few
> weeks of posts.

Look here for analysis of what a declining population means for
economic growth:
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid220

Look here for population decline linkages to economic, cultural and
scientific stagnation:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID 030517-042025-4614r
http://www.iht.com/articles/96216.html

TangoMan