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Syndicate: mailradek no. 19 (demographical crisis) |
The "mailradek" project is a non-regular posting of subjective commentaries on political themes. *mailradek* texts have no copyright and can be reprinted, translated, distributed without a special authors' permission. The information about the project is available on the Website (in Russian): http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/1457. Everybody who doesn't receive it can send a "subscribe english mailradek" or "subscribe russian mailradek" (a more often and full version) e-mail to kireev@glasnet.ru, and I'll include him into the mailing list. Address: Russia 117333 Moscow, Vavilova 48-237, tel.: (095) 137 71 31, e-mail: kireev@glasnet.ru text no. 81 28.06.1999 The demographic crisis is to be considered purely biological: as any kind of species, the mankind is regulated by the same rules. When the population exceeds the possibilities of terrain, the mechanism of reducing the number of species engages * stress, disadaptation, epidemics etc. Without listing all the other, one can take into consideration three major factors: wars, crime, epidemics * and see that everything going on around proves the fact that the population ecology protests against the extension of population density. When the population extends beyond its possibilities, the process of depopulation begins, which includes reduction of overall population number, reduction of active period species number, i.e. people get old faster, grow adult longer, stay in poor health etc. What did the authors of scientific recommendations for the UN conference for population in 1984 suggest? There were proposals of massive contraception programs in demographically dangerous areas, namely the countries of the Third world. The contraception medicine, despite its wide range of possibilities, is very cheap, because all the other ways (infantile mortality and diseases, reduction of immunity) cost much more after. The science is supposed to work out recommendations and programs, and the states are up to implement them. The solution accepted wasn't a scientific one, it was purely administrative. The administrators considered the programs to be both economically ineffective and ideologically impossible: "everyone who is supposed to be born must be born". The pope provided a good support for this barbarous thesis, he proclaimed that it was not necessary to fight the birth rate. America won't provide any money for such foul purposes, Reagan supported him in the person of James Barclay, an ultraconservative senator, the head of American delegation, who knew nothing about science but was a director of Radio Liberty, which hosted a stunning number of religious broadcasts for Communist countries. It's not even necessary to mention the hypocrisy of clericals who "forbid" the usage of contraceptives in the countries of the Third world, while the inhabitants of their own countries are "allowed" to use these. I wonder who is going to finance other hospitals a bit later, hospitals for great amounts of children with inborn abnormalities because of reduced children immunity, increased infantile death rates, diseases and all the things that have been blooming in the past few years, due to the fact that no measures had been taken. The postscriptum to the 1984 conference was another meeting of the same organizations 12 years after * the results of the former were denounced, the Reagan-Barclay method was violently criticized, the idea of building hospitals and other contraceptive measures was condemned, but, after coming to a theoretically right conclusion, the conference of 1996 did nothing at all, because it involves investing money, and there was no one to invest a cent already. Even in 1984 any measures would be out of date, they should had been taken in the beginning of the 70s. The science must remember: the more people are born, the more certainly a war will be started. As a proverb says, if many boys are born, there's going to be a war. The first world war wouldn't have begun unless the huge birth boom of 1880-1890, i.e. the generals before the war knew they would have swarms of soldiers in their disposal. V.B. translation: Alexey Kovalev INFO: The Krasnodar process on *terrorism* is over: Larisa Schiptsova is sentenced for 4 years, Gennadii Nepshikuev * for 3 years of imprisonment (the prosecutor demanded 7 and 6). The fact that Larisa is at the 8th month of pregnancy didn't prevent such a severe sentence. Larisa's advocate Stanislav Markelov is going to appeal this decision and to make a briefing within nearest days in Moscow. More information on the process is available at: www.ecoline.ru/actions/bomba/; www.ipclub.ru/identity/pres/. According an unofficial information, there're three new criminal cases inspirated by FSB at Moscow after the closure of the Krasnodar one. There have been a series of searches in the activists' flats between 23 and 26 July, the PCs, private correspondence etc. withdrawn (with the witnesses the students of Militia academy, for sure). There'll be an international action camp near the Novovoronezh nuclear plant in Russia established on August 17, 1999. Everybody is welcomed and all info is available: Antinuclear campaign of the Socio-Ecological Union * phone +7(095)278 4642, +7(095)776 6546, e-mail: anc@ecoline.ru and aln@glasnet.ru, ECODEFENSE! * phone/fax 7(0112)437286, e-mail: ecodefense@glasnet.ru. ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress