Thursday, July 24, 2008

Unit 4 Ethical Issue: Is Population the Problem? And Who Should Reproduce?

The article from Moses and Brown discussed many issues that relate to developed and under developed countries and what has an effect on population. Under developed nations have more children but don't use a lot of energy resources. Developed countries have fewer children but use more resources then under developed nations. One of the reasons for us using so many more resources is because we are using those resources to feed and help out under developed countries. Also we have many advantages that under developed countries do not have the options to and these were not mentioned in the article and can have an affect on population. In developed countries both the mother and father have careers therefore don't have the time to have more children. They also have the options to many different birth control contraceptives that allow them to prevent unwanted births.
Like the article, I believe that education in the developed countries has a lot to do with controlling population. So I really don't believe in the developed countries that population is a problem and does not need to be controlled like under developed countries.

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