tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212755522263510471.post7524657033140139409..comments2023-10-24T09:06:55.121-07:00Comments on Social Welfare Policy and Macro Practice: China's One Child PolicyEric Hadley-Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349423480178819276noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212755522263510471.post-25507155407075876122008-08-28T10:16:00.000-07:002008-08-28T10:16:00.000-07:00It seems that now, after several months, some of t...It seems that now, after several months, some of the links I suggested are no longer working. <BR/><BR/>Here are fresh links that seem to be working.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php" REL="nofollow">World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns</A>.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/1436" REL="nofollow">Food prices rising</A>.<BR/><BR/>Garrett Hardin's famous 1977 essay <A HREF="http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_ethical_implications.html" REL="nofollow">The Ethical Considerations of Carrying Capacity</A>, and also <A HREF="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc1201/article_1029.shtml" REL="nofollow">this controversial essay</A> about famine relief.Eric Hadley-Iveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07349423480178819276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212755522263510471.post-91155023307333594512008-04-09T10:57:00.000-07:002008-04-09T10:57:00.000-07:00The justifiability rests on a comparison of the ev...The justifiability rests on a comparison of the evil of allowing population to grow unconstrained versus the evil of intruding on families and telling them how many children they should have (or will be allowed to have). If overpopulation is a certainty without the one child policy, and if overpopulation will certainly lead to overshoot and die off, then the failure to implement a strict policy of one child per family would cause tens of millions of deaths. (In 1961-1962 China did experience a famine of this magnitude because of a stupid domestic economic development policy called The Great Leap Forward). If overpopulation would be avoided even in the absence of the one child policy, or if overpopulation wouldn’t really harm people, but would merely keep them a bit poorer and more crowded, then the one child policy is a gross overreaction to the threat and entirely unwarrented. Read the websites I’ve suggested and see what you think.<BR/>I personally oppose the way the policy is implemented, but I do not oppose the general idea of the policy. In fact, I think America would benefit from such a one child policy, if it were implemented merely through tax incentives.<BR/><BR/>Check out these websites:<BR/>An article from last year about <A HREF="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php <br/>An article from a couple weeks ago " REL="nofollow">world food stocks dwindling</A>. <BR/><BR/>An article about <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/24/food.ap/" REL="nofollow">food prices rising around the world</A>. <BR/><BR/>And here is one about <A HREF="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0402/p99s01-duts.html?s=rel" REL="nofollow">unrest sparked by rising food prices</A>, from the day we had class this week.<BR/> <BR/>This site explains <A HREF="http://dieoff.org/" REL="nofollow">die off</A> and gives you links to good and not-so-good information about carrying capacity and the world’s energy and agricultural capacities: <BR/> <BR/>More about <A HREF="http://www.ilea.org/leaf/richard2002.html" REL="nofollow">carrying capacity</A>. <BR/> <BR/>Have we already reached <A HREF="http://www.sos2006.jp/english/rsbs_summary_e/5-are-we-living-beyond-earths-capacity.html <br/>" REL="nofollow">overshoot</A>?Eric Hadley-Iveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07349423480178819276noreply@blogger.com