Population Pressures (or my vacation report)
I just returned from a two-week vacation. In those two weeks, 2.8 million people were added to the planet. But there is a special demographic event taking place today in China.

China is expected to reach a population of 1.3 billion today, despite a quarter century of its one-child policy. "Although the population growth rate has been reduced, the actual increase is still huge," according to an anonymous CHL official at China's State Commission for Population and Family Planning. China is expected to add about 10 million to its population each year and has no plans to ease the one-child policy.

The one child policy is not a bad thing in principle, as governmental control over reproduction can be used to our advantage. For example, United States conservatives and Chinese communists share the view that pregnancy is the government’s business. Once we can get government in control of reproduction everywhere, we can make pregnancy mandatory for all women ages 16-24 until the whole planet implodes.

- nostradamusfunkadelic, 1:37 PM | |