1993 Series 1 Number 5 Page 27
In 1993, CACOR member N Németh wrote Population Growth: A Need for Limits and Forming Alliances to Achieve It. This was a short proposal about unsustainable population growth and the endless abuse of the ecosystem to satisfy the growing demands of humanity. He said he had detected both panic and complacency, with international meetings proliferating yet no agreements emerging on how to address the problem. Mr. Németh wanted to spark CACOR members to generate collective input toward a workable plan to do so.
He thought his proposal shockingly simple: form a broadly based consensus through an alliance of social, economic, religious, and cultural forces working within national frameworks. The alliance would need common understanding of ecological values and the need for the balanced use of resources. It would have various tools available (e.g., family planning) to work toward safer healthier life within those national settings.
[The proposal was, in all likelihood, quite naïve. On one hand, small local subpopulations can have major environmental effects through their activities; on the other, some local and regional, if not global subpopulations did not then, nor do they now, see the need to population control. Ed.]
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