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Finally, we
will leave these long-considered matters to YOU. After all, the unfounded
Malthusian approach has been in the public mind about 2 centuries or since
1859. We must appreciate our philosophers in their
appropriate time and place. What is still true in one place is no longer
true in another. Coal and iron made our world just as rural equals poor. How
do infectious diseases affect social development in rural Africa and India?
Is the entry of women into the labor market and a rise in the standard of
living really more important than just more people? What will the
pronatalists say?
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