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Communicating and Providing for Children Today
Dec
23
By: dawn
Population density in the People's Republic of...

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China’s disastrous one child policy is known in most places.  While they are going through their population crisis due to most children being raised being boys.  In China men are seen as more valuable, and the sad reality remains that most female children that are born,  don’t get a good outlook at life. 

While most of the globe sees this in it’s truly tragic light, others seem to see something else.  Those others see a solution to the overpopulation concern.

While some argue that the original op-ed piece that had prompted the new debate was just a set up to get people talking, others still are thinking that the original writer may actually have a point.  While overpopulation is a real concern, especially with the exponential rate that people can grow, especially in scientific models the primary concern is the lack of available resources for the people on this planet and the carbon footprint left behind.
 
While the originally written piece relies on some shoddy logic (such as the below):

China has proven that birth restriction is smart policy. Its middle class grows, all its citizens have housing, health care, education and food and one out of five human beings that live there are not overpopulating the planet.

Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/archive/2009/12/07/the-inconvenient-truth-overpopulation.aspx#ixzz0aYa0nxTs

In fact, China themselves is expressing a vast concern over their own policy.

He said China’s newborn gender ratio of girls to boys was 100:117, according to the fifth national census. The number of boys under 9 years old was 12.77 million more than that of girls.

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In fact there is a very real concern over a zero population growth due to the disproportionate rate of gender.

They have already gone so far as to consider reversing the policy itself, and may actually remove it from the books.

The article degenerates much further than that.  While I myself and amongst the many who are hoping that the original ‘writer’ of the piece was just trying to open up an avenue for discussion, it really does seem that they believe their own junk science and poor research.

While the overpopulation of our planet, and depletion of our natural resources is a real concern, the answer isn’t as simply as a ‘one child’ ideal.  It’s a much more complicated issue that really does deserves real research and implementation of a real answer.  Not some guess in the dark due to some (seemingly) pre-conceived illusions of an answer.

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