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Among those who have tried to focus increased attention on the population issue is former World Bank President Robert McNamara. Writing in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, he argues that the much heralded drop in the world's population growth rate during the '70s has led to overconfidence and the mistaken idea that "efforts to deal with [population] problems can therefore be relaxed." McNamara points out that the global figures for the past decade have been distorted by the experience of China, where a draconian birth control program that includes financial rewards and penalties to encourage one-child families...
Some of the baleful effects of excessive population growth are already evident. In addition to unrestrained urban growth, McNamara notes the increasing inadequacy of Third World agriculture, owing in part to rural overpopulation and economic distortions caused by efforts to palliate the rising tide of urban consumers. In such countries as Tanzania and India, where people depend on firewood for fuel, deforestation is damaging flood control, speeding erosion and adding to the hardship of merely staying alive. Citing the example of China, McNamara warns that rapid population growth may also lead to greater and more coercive state intrusions into private...
Many population experts accept McNamara's facts, while objecting to the tone of his conclusions. According to Rafael Salas, executive director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and chief organizer of the upcoming Mexico City conference, "There is room for concern, but not panic." He points out that countries in the Third World increasingly recognize the importance of population control. In its 1984 Development Report, the World Bank notes that 85 nations in the Third World, containing about 95% of its population, now provide some form of public support, however inadequate, to family-planning programs. An additional...
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